On the Moon

President John F. Kennedy, May 25, 1961:

"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."

At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, Apollo 11, the first manned mission to land on the moon, launched from the Kennedy Space Center. Four days later, on July 20, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon.