Apollo-11: A giant leap for mankind
J uly 20,1969 at 10:56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from Earth, speaks these words to more than a billion people listening at home: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Stepping off the lunar landing module Eagle, Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon. It was a dream of human being to reach the moon and explore the surface.We fascinated what mystery might be there .People might have only dreamt about reaching the moon but there was doubt if we could really reach there and even if we reach then how. Scientists just did not dreamt it,they explored how to fulfill that dream and Apollo -11 is the result of that. After the unsuccessful attempt by the Luna 1 to land on the moon in 1959, the Soviet Union performed the first hard moon landing later that same year with the Luna-2 spacecraft, a feat the U.S. duplicated in 1962 with Ranger 4. Since then, twelve Soviet and U.S. spacecraft have u...