"TV: An Awesome Event"
Newspaper article
By: Jack Gould
Date: July 21, 1969
Source: Gould, Jack. "TV: An Awesome Event." The New York Times, July 21, 1969.
Introduction
On July 20, 1969, half a billion people all over the world watched on their television sets as Neil A. Armstrong, an American astronaut, climbed slowly down the ladder of his lunar landing vehicle and stepped carefully onto the surface of the moon. He carried a plaque inscribed with the words: "Here Men from the Planet Earth First Set Foot on the Moon. We Came in Peace for All Mankind."
The Apollo 11 moon landing was the climax of an intense thirteen-year competition in space exploration between the Soviet Union and the United States, which had begun with the orbiting of the Soviet Sputnik, the first artificial earth satellite, in October 1957. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy, in the wake of the...
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