"One Giant Leap for Mankind": Remembering the First Manned Moon Landing
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Three weeks after astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space on May 5, 1961, President Kennedy laid out a bold vision that America should commit itself to landing a man on the moon "before the decade is out." Many missions followed until, on July 20, 1969--just six months before the end of the decade--American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin A. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. became the first humans to set foot on the moon.
Souvenir Card, Astronaut Alan Shepard Receiving Distinguished Service Medal from President Kennedy, 1961
Card (Information artifact)
Neil Armstrong outside Wright Family Home in Greenfield Village, August 16, 1979
Negative (Photograph)
