Apollo 11 landed on the Moon in July, 1969. Neil Armstrong was the first to set foot on the Moon.
As NASA's Curiousity Rover robot travels about the surface of Mars, sending back transmitted voices and photos, the nation pauses to remember the first words spoken by a human from the surface of the Moon, decades ago:
Neil Armstrong
August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012
Photos from the moon
Astronaut outside lunar module
"That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind."