moon – Mike's Maxims

Present day, the James Webb Space Telescope peers into the distant past from orbit. But today in 1969 was one of the greatest moments in human history!

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html

“At 10:56 p.m. EDT Armstrong is ready to plant the first human foot on another world. With more than half a billion people watching on television, he climbs down the ladder and proclaims: ‘That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.'”

In 1969 the world’s population was 3.6 billion.

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/

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I am a finger pointing to the moon. Don’t look at me; look at the moon. — Buddha

July 20, 1969, “one giant leap for mankind”; Neil Armstrong sets foot on the Moon.