Stepping off the lunar module Eagle on #ThisDayInHistory in 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon. | HISTORY

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Real Apollo 11 footage: the Lunar Module Eagle lifts off from the Moon and climbs to dock with the Command Module Columbia—the most underrated “escape” in space history. 🧑‍🚀 The descent stage stays behind, and the ascent stage carries Armstrong and Aldrin back to Michael Collins in lunar orbit—because getting off the Moon was just as risky as landing. 🌕 Watch closely: a tiny blinking craft, a black sky, and one docking that decided whether Apollo 11 was a triumph… or a tragedy. 🚀 #Apollo11 #

#OnThisDay in 1969, the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle landed, making NASA Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin the first men to walk on the moon. Armstrong's "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" secured U.S. victory in the Space Race, and fulfilled a national goal proposed in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth by the end of the decade. But humanity's fascination with the moon began long before the Space Race. Lunar reverenc