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When Armstrong stepped down onto the moon's surface, he uttered the immortal words "that's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind." Kennedy's dream was realized in 1969 with Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins' successful voyage. "Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." 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," Kennedy proclaimed. In 1962, Kennedy spoke at Rice University in Houston, further stressing the national goal to reach the moon. RELATED: 11 of the 12 people who have walked on the moon all trained in this small North Carolina town The speech came just a month after Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to enter outer space, and just shortly after Alan Shepard became the first American to enter space. Kennedy gave a speech to Congress, asking for a robust space exploration program that would put a man on the moon. The journey to the Apollo 11 mission was a process that stretched back several years. By touching down on the lunar surface, Armstrong and his fellow Apollo 11 crew members Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins changed the course of history inspiring generations across the globe. On July 20, 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped down from Apollo 11's lunar module onto the surface of the moon, the first human in history to do so.
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The Apollo 11 crew successfully landed on the moon on July 20, 1969.