Forty-five years ago this very day the Apollo 11 crew landed on the Moon and astronaut Neil Armstrong stated "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin visited the Moon's surface for about 22 hours before returning the the command module, where astronaut Michael Collins was waiting for them. The picture above is pretty dramatic, yet the world first saw the mission on television via the poor-quality video shown below. NASA has
restored the video showing about two and a half hours "extravehicular activity." This was a amazing day in history, and hopefully we will have many more space moments in the future. We have not returned to the Moon since 1972. It may be time to revisit the Moon as part of plans to move further out into the solar system.
