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by Neil Armstrong
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy challenged the nation by establishing the goal of “landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” Eight years later that goal was accomplished, when on the Apollo 11 mission Neil Armstrong, along with Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin, took their capsule to the Moon, and Armstrong took the lunar module Eagle to the lunar surface and became the first man to walk on the Moon. Two statements of Armstrong’s came to embody that accomplishment: “The Eagle has landed;” which announced the lunar module’s landing on the Moon’s surface; and “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” spoken as (truncated)