<span style="color: #222222;">On this day in 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon. United States' Apollo 11 was the first crewed mission to land on the Moon, on 20th July 1969. Millions of people gathered around their televisions to watch two U.S. astronauts do something no one had ever done before. Wearing bulky space suits and backpacks of oxygen to breathe, Neil Armstrong and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin became the first human beings to walk on the moon.<br />”<br />”Before touching down, the three men split up. Mr Collins boarded Apollo 11’s command module, the Columbia, where he would remain in orbit around the moon. Mr Armstrong and Mr Aldrin boarded Apollo 11’s lunar module, the Eagle, and began to descend to the moon’s surface. After the two stepped onto the lunar surface, Mr Armstrong proclaimed these famous words- ‘That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.&quot;<br />”<br />”There were six crewed U.S. landings between 1969 and 1972, and numerous uncrewed landings, with no soft landings happening between 22nd August 1976 and 14th December 2013. The&nbsp;United States is the only country to have successfully conducted crewed missions to the Moon, with the last departing the lunar surface in December 1972.</span><br />