It was 50 years ago that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to feel an alien gravity tugging at them. By landing on the moon on July 20, 1969, a mere 66 years after the first powered flight by the Wright brothers, the two astronauts met the challenge set by John F. Kennedy seven years earlier to land men on the moon before the end of the decade.
Bringing the moon to Earth
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
We stand with Ukraine
-
Memorial Day
-
Zion National Park turns 103
-
Infrared Jupiter, erupting Io
-
One giant leap for penguins
-
Cherry blossoms in Shanghai, China
-
Old Rock Day
-
Hoisting a flag for seafarers
-
Mountain goats at Glacier National Park in Montana
-
Burchells zebras for International Zebra Day
-
Breaking the fast for Eid
-
Blue Lagoon spa, Grindavík, Iceland
-
What are we looking at?
-
Join us in celebrating World Water Day
-
Macro photograph of a migrant hawker dragonfly
-
Iceland awaits the Yule Lads
-
The old guard at Old San Juan
-
National Panda Day
-
So, how long till springtime?
-
Elephant Rock, Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia
-
A night on the (ghost) town
-
Sutherland Falls in Fiordland National Park
-
China s colorful terraced pools
-
Ring of fire solar eclipse
-
Perseid meteor shower over Oregon
-
Castle ruins on the island of Halki, Greece
-
Who created the Easter Bunny?
-
‘The memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever’
-
Ringing in the new year at Teotihuacan
-
In praise of the old…the very old