U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to walk on the moon. We had done it. The US had first beaten Soviet Union to the moon, and the world was seeing the moon for the first time. Footage streamed live as children, adults, rich, poor, hard-working watched with great amazement. This remained to go down in history forever. In 1966, after five years of work by an international team of scientists and engineers, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) conducted the first unmanned Apollo mission, testing the structural integrity of the proposed launch vehicle and spacecraft combination. Then, on January 27, 1967, tragedy struck at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, when a fire broke out during a manned launch-pad test of the Apollo spacecraft and Saturnrocket. Three astronauts were killed in the fire.
Neil Armstrong
Neil A. Armstrong was a NASA astronaut and the first man on the moon or, more accurately, the first man to set foot on the moon. He was also an accomplished test pilot and a figure so large in American and world history that you can bet many generations from now people will still be talking about him, as well as his moon landing.