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Revisiting the First man on moon.

Revisiting the First man on moon.

With July 20, 2011 comes the 42nd anniversary of the first time man landed on Moon.
After nerve wrecking moments, for the scientists sitting in the NASA observation room and 30 billion USDollars of investment at stake, finally Apollo11 mission landed on Moon on July 20, 1969 with just a few seconds of fuel left.
The mission sent message from the spaceship to Earth: «Houston, Tranquility Base here.The Eagle has landed.»
The nervous scientists took a sigh of relief replying: «»Roger, Tranquility.We copy you on the ground.You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue.We’re breathing again.»
Finally Neil Armstrong climbed down the ladder and went down in history as the first man to step his foot on moon.And came those famous words:
«That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.»
It indeed was a giant leap for the mankind, but more so for the anxious Americans, who were extremely nervous that the Communist Soviet Union had left them behind in the space race with the launching in space for the first time of Sputnik 1, on October 1957.It had come as a bolt in the blue for the Americans.
President Kennedy could not hold his anxiety too and had в

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