blast from the past

40 years ago, the world united.

Families all around the world crowded around their black-and-white television sets to witness one of the most famous achievement by mankind.

kkkkhhh..... or *static sounds*

Neil Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. *beep*

Mission control erupts in celebration as the tension breaks, and a controller tells the crew "You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue, we're breathing again." Apollo 11 landed at 4:18 p.m EDT, only 30 seconds of fuel remain.

The goal, a brainchild of U.S. President Kennedy had earlier in the decade challenged America to rise to the occasion to beat Russia in the race to send a man to the moon. Kennedy was assassinated two years later, but his legacy lived on, and on that faithful Sunday evening on the 20th of July 1969, Armstrong set foot on the moon, and the rest was...

...that's one for step for men, one giant leap for mankind.

Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong working at an equipment storage area on the lunar module. This is one of the few photos that show Armstrong during the moonwalk.

- NASA -

We can now watched the Apollo 11 mission in real time, created by this website. It will track the capsule's route from the Earth to the Moon, ending with the moon landing and Armstrong's walk — in real time, but 40 years later. Let's relive the excitement and the moments of the moon mission ;)