So where does that leave the VMA "Moon Man" in the race to the top?
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When President Kennedy challenged America to go to the moon, your engineers produced the alloys that helped get a man on the moon.
Little did they know that come April 20, 2012, there would be all kinds of wild changes in the world, like a manned spaceship to the moon, a black man in the White House and a woman maybe even being considered for membership at Augusta National.
Now, Richards is the ringleader behind Odyssey Moon, a company formed on the Isle of Man to pursue commercial ventures on the moon.
And that really changed in the '60s with Kennedy's vision of man in the moon.
The Wall Street Journal called it the biological equivalent of landing a man on the moon.
Kennedy inspired a whole new generation to service and called for landing a man on the moon.
Where once America could land a man on the moon, now it is reduced to sending WallE to Mars.
The astronaut, who was the first man on the moon, died August 25.
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Well, the first iPhone was more powerful than the Apollo guidance computer used to send the first man to the moon.
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All people knew about the astronaut who would turn out to be the first man on the moon was what they saw.
There is no doubt, though, that Moon was a very wealthy man.
The most mentioned celebrity passing, of first man on the moon Neil Armstrong, was the fifteenth biggest event of any type for 2012.
For a country that put a man on the moon and ran a taxi service to the International Space Station, this is not rocket science!
Once JFK announced to the world that America would be the first nation to put a man on the moon, there was no turning back.
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"Here I am speaking to the first man on the Moon and all I can think of asking him are his impressions of Cranfield University!"
It calls for a rocket that is taller and more powerful even than the boosters that took man to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.
Nobody could have foreseen that almost 200 years after its birth, the United States would fulfill the science-fiction fantasies of little boys everywhere and put a man on the moon.
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Kennedy addressed a joint session of Congress and articulated the following vision: Land a man on the moon, before this decade is out, and return him safely to Earth.
Government is what sent a man to the Moon.
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And f believe that you, the nation that had the vision to put a man on the moon, are also the nation with the vision to protect and preserve our planet earth.
Unlike the effort to decode the human genome, or the project to put a man on the moon, the mapping of the human brain is a fuzzy endeavor, with no obvious milestones along the way.
These phones, such as those running the Apple iOS and Google Android operating systems, offer "more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon, " Nancy Gibbs writes for Time.
Grohl has gone on to have success as singer and guitarist with a new band, Foo Fighters, while Love has also carved out an acting career with appearances in The People vs Larry Flynt and Man on the Moon.
America put a man in space, put a man in orbit, put a man on the moon, created the world's first reusable spacecraft, sent unmanned probes to other planets and led the world in making important scientific discoveries outside the Earth's atmosphere.
When the villain, Pitch Black (also known as the Bogey Man) returns to snuff out belief in Santa and the other Guardians, Jack Frost is promoted by the Man in the Moon to the team of super hero Guardians whose primary job is to protect children.
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According to Piers Bizony, the rival schemes sucked resources from each other: "There was a great deal of confusion in the Soviet space effort in the late 1960s and as a result they didn't have the technology to send a man to the Moon, " he says.
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