In July of nineteen sixty-nine he was almost speechless when Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

I know this is so, because when I put my small finger in front of the moon, my fingernail covers it."

VOA: special.2009.03.28

That was when men from Earth -- American astronauts flew their Apollo Eleven spacecraft to the moon, landed and returned home safely.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

When bad weather prevented navigators from seeing the sun,moon or stars, they had to use a method called "dead reckoning" to find the ship's position.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Some nights when the full moon shone, the couple stood at the window.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Barack Obama was only seven years old when Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

Science fiction writer Arthur C.Clarke described an object left on the moon to let aliens know when humans were able to travel in space.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

"Why should we do something when we've already done it." "Going to the moon or going to Mars is about as interesting to people as say going to Antarctica."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

The U.S.Moon mission came on July 16,1969, when Armstrong, along with astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, climbed into Apollo 11's command module called Columbia atop a gigantic Saturn V rocket and blasted off.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16