Apollo 11 - Lunar Module 1969

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“We meet in an hour of change and challenge, in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance. The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. […] Surely the opening vistas of space promise high costs and hardships, as well as high reward. So, it is not surprising that some would have us stay where we are a little longer to rest, to wait. […] But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why fly the Atlantic? We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

-John F. Kennedy, 1962

Fifty-one years ago, today, humans first landed on the moon. Six hours later, Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the lunar surface on the 21st of July at 02:56:15 UTC, followed by Edwin ‘buzz’ Aldrin. NASA would successfully land five more crewed missions on the moon, the last in 1972. Humans have not left low Earth orbit since.