SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: The space age began as a race between enemies, the United States and the Soviet Union. In nineteen fifty-seven the Soviets put the first satellite, Sputnik, into orbit around the Earth.
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: The Soviets also sent the first person into orbit, Yuri Gagarin, in April of nineteen sixty-one.
In May, President John Kennedy went before Congress. He urged the nation to set a goal to put astronauts on the moon by the end of the sixties.
On July twentieth, nineteen sixty-nine, millions of people watched on live television as that goal was reached.
NEIL ARMSTRONG: "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.”
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: That was Neil Armstrong talking to Mission Control in Houston, Texas.
The landing craft was called the Eagle. It carried him and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin to the surface in an area known as the Sea of Tranquility.
Shortly after the landing, Neil Armstrong climbed down from the Eagle.
NEIL ARMSTRONG: "That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Michael Collins was the third astronaut on the Apollo eleven mission. He piloted the command module that orbited the moon while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spent twenty-one hours on the surface. They were the first of twelve men, all Americans, who walked on the moon. The last moon landing was in December of nineteen seventy-two.
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