Armstrong's small step a giant leap for humanity

Monday, August 27, 2012 - 04:30 in Earth & Climate

(AP)—When man first harnessed fire, no one recorded it. When the Wright Brothers showed man could fly, only a handful of people witnessed it. But when Neil Armstrong took that first small step on the moon in July 1969, an entire globe watched in grainy black-and-white from a quarter million miles (400,000 kilometers) away

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