On This Day: Moon Landing (1969)

One small step. The phrase, the footprint, the photograph.

At 10:56 PM EDT on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped off the lunar module Eagle and onto the surface of the moon, saying the words he had prepared carefully: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Over 600 million people, about one fifth of the world's population at the t