- ...grainy, black-and-white image taken on the Moon shows Neil Armstrong about to step off the Eagle lander and onto the surface of the Moon for the first time.
- Two of them would set foot on the lunar surface for the first time in human history as millions of people around the world followed their steps on television.
- Front Page | Years | Themes | Witness. ... 1969: Man takes first steps on the Moon. American Neil Armstrong has become the first man to walk on the Moon.
- FIFTY years ago on July 20 Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong took the historic first step on the surface of the moon.He's stated he was apparently "n.
- It has been over 50 years since Apollo 11 landed men on the Moon for the first time in a mission that defined an era. The landings ushered in a...
- In 1961, President Kennedy promised his country that the first person who would step on the Moon would be sent at the end of the 1960s.
- The descent for man's first steps on the Moon gets under way. - 7:42 pm: The astronauts start preparations for the excursion.
- The first was Gemini 8. The second was Apollo 11, which landed on the moon in 1969. Armstrong was also an engineer, a pilot and a college professor.
- Thus began “the first flight to land man on the moon”. On July 20, 1969, the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle, manned by Aldrin and Armstrong, landed on the moon.