I’ve blogged about this several times before, but it’s the anniversary of one of the biggest events that has ever occurred during the month of July….
I won’t go into the details again, but on May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy challenged the nation to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.
On July 20, 1969, pretty much the whole world watched on television as Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong took his first step onto the Moon. As he stepped onto the Moon’s surface, he said, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” — inadvertently omitting as “a” before “man” that slightly changed the meaning.
But what the heck, I guess we can forgive Neil for being a little excited and making a small mistake….
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