On June 20th, 1969, forty years ago today, the Apollo 11 mision resulted in the first successful manned mission to land on the moon.  Mission commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr. comprised the spacecraft that landed on the moon.  Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon (Collins orbited above).  Check out the all-new Google Moon site to see “a mosaic of landing site images and a tour of the Apollo landings.”  Check out AOL’s We Choose the Moon interactive deployment of Apollo 11 from Earth to the moon (make sure you have Flash enabled, and give it a minute to load).  Also, take a look at this YouTube video, “First Moon Landing 1969.”  Celebrate by watching these videos, viewing the images, and remembering the famous sentence spoken by Neil Armstrong when he stepped off the spacecraft: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

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