It was like the day -- a hundred years later -- when the first American walked on the moon.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

At the time President Kennedy first spoke about landing humans on the moon, the Soviet space program seemed far ahead.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

At two hours fifty-six Greenwich Mean Time on July twentieth,nineteen sixty-nine, Neil Armstrong put his foot on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

It carried the man who became the first human to step on the moon, Neil Armstrong, a former X-15 pilot.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

Mary Chapin Carpenter describes real events such as Hurricane Katrina, landing on the moon,and protests by religious workers in Burma.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

In July of nineteen sixty-nine he was almost speechless when Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Gemini's purpose was to bring the United States closer to its goal of landing astronauts on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

Left behind on the moon were the footprints of Armstrong and Aldrin, an American flag and scientific equipment.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

They came down near Surveyor Three, an unmanned spacecraft that had landed on the moon two years before.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

Today look back at the first flights of the Apollo program designed to land humans on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Its purpose was to bring the United States closer to its goal of landing astronauts on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

But California officials recently registered objects left by the first men to land on the moons surface.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

At least for awhile, historic objects on the moon remain far away and safe from human hands.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

Down he came,very slowly. Soon,both men were busy placing experiments to be left behind on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

It carried oxygen,water, electricity and food for two men for two days on the moon's surface.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Because of the gravity on Mars, spacesuits may have to be designed to be lighter than suits used in orbit or on the moon.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

Its crew would attempt a move that would be necessary for any landing on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

And,we will tell what officials in California have done to protect historic objects on the moon.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

Gemini,it was hoped, would move America closer to its goal of landing astronauts on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

The astronauts used it to carry tools and cameras while they were on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

In the close to forty years since, no one has set foot on the moon.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Americans Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon on July twentieth, nineteen-sixty-nine.

VOA: special.2010.03.02