Neil Armstrong achieved something no human before him had ever done on July 20, 1969. He became the first man to set foot on the moon, followed by pilot Buzz Aldrin 19 minutes later.
As he took his first steps on the lunar surface, Armstrong uttered the now immortal phrase "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind".
When he, Aldrin and the pilot who had taken them to surface of the moon, Michael Collins, returned to earth all three were international heroes.
More than six million people lined the streets of New York and Chicago when the three astronauts were on a ticker tape parade and an official State dinner was held in their honour.
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