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39th Anniversary of First Man on Moon
U. S. Plans 2012 Return to Moon.
On July 20, 1969 Commander Neil Alden Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. The Apollo 11 mission Launched on July 16, 1969, it carried, Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene ‘Buzz’ Aldrin, Jr. was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It was the fifth human spaceflight of Project Apollo and the third human voyage to the Moon.
When he stepped onto the moon’s surface Armstrong uttered the now famous words,
“One small step for man; one giant step for mankind.”
The mission fulfilled President John F. Kennedy’s goal of reaching the moon by the end of the 1960s, which he expressed during a 1961 speech:
“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 the Earth.”
The United States is planning the next moon landing in 2012 and China plans to be the second country to put a man on the moon with its own mission in 2013.