NASA Apollo 11 30th Anniversary
 
 
On July 20, 1969, the human race accomplished    its single greatest technological achievement of all time when a human    first set foot on another celestial body.
Six hours after landing at 4:17 p.m. Eastern Daylight    Time (with less than 30 seconds of fuel remaining), Neil A. Armstrong took    the �Small Step� into our greater future when he stepped off the Lunar    Module, named �Eagle,� onto the surface of the Moon, from which he could    look up and see Earth in the heavens as no one had done before him.
He was shortly joined by �Buzz� Aldrin, and the two astronauts           spent 21 hours on the lunar surface and returned 46 pounds of lunar rocks.           After their historic walks on the Moon, they successfully docked with           the Command Module �Columbia,� in which Michael Collins was patiently           orbiting the cold but no longer lifeless Moon.