I’m a little late posting this, but July 20, 2009 marked the fortieth anniversary of the moon landing by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
On that day in 1969, Apollo 11 touched down on the lunar surface at 20:17 UTC.
You would be hard-pressed to find someone who’s not seen footage of that historical moment, or images of families gathered around their black and white televisions watching awe-struck.
“We do not do these things because they are easy. We do these things because they are hard.”
I read this in a tweet a couple of weeks ago, where it was wrongly attributed to Neil Armstrong. It was spoken pertaining to going to the Moon, however. As part of a speech by John F Kennedy at Rice University, Texas, in 1962.
A bigger excerpt of what was said:
“But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? … We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade, and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
Tags: apollo 11, buzz aldrin, jfk, neil armstrong
