Neil Amstrong

At 9.50 a.m., West indonesia time, on Monday 21st July 1969, the American astronaut, Neil Amstrong, made history by becoming the first man who step on the moon. As hundred of millions of people watched and listened from the planet Earth 240.000 miles away, Amstrong lifted his foot from the landing of his spaceship, the "Eagle", and slowly and carefully pressed into the moon's surface. Testing his ability to walk in the weak lunar gravity-one sixth of that on the earth-he moved slowly in his spacesuit. He found that he could move easily. With creasing confidance he began to move away from "Eagle".