At first no one believed that any man could land on the moon, but on July 20th 1969, the world took a big twist and that’s when Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and the Eagle landed on the moon! This event is known as Apollo 11. This mission was almost impossible to achieve but they ended up successfully completing the task.
John F Kennedy states in his speech Moon Speech on September 1962, “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.” Seven years later this was ac complished. Although science says that one in four people did not believe Apollo 11 was real and choose to believe that this was Hoax. People tend to believe that the
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I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.” I believe that's him coming to realization that he actually did it. He actually landed on the moon and is just so amazed on the view of the earth from the moon. Before they left, the moon they wrote into the moon's surface, “Here men from planet earth first set foot upon the moon July 1969. We came in peace for all mankind.”
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As said by Henry Drummond, “The landing of the moon was not televised, but the first steps on the moon were. It’s hard to describe something like that if you weren’t there. The whole world was caught up in it and felt it was a great achievement for the whole world.” This quote is enjoyable because it shows how the U.S can come together and happily succeed in what we’ve been wanting to accomplish.
I’m sure everyone knows of the famous quote “That's one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind.” said by Neil Armstrong. Meaning although actually stepping onto the moon must've been a minor step, making it to the moon and landing is actually a big deal, for them and the United states, and even though Apollo 11 was over with this led for more journeys with the NASA team to