July 19, 2019
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Jr. poses for a photograph beside the U.S. flag on the moon July 20, 1969, during the Apollo 11 mission. (Neil Armstrong/NASA via AP)
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A half-century ago, in the middle of a mean year of war, famine, violence in the streets and the widening of the generation gap, men from planet Earth stepped onto another world for the first time, uniting people around the globe in a way not seen before or since.
By Associated Press
July 19, 2019