Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module ( LM ) on the Moon on July 20, 1969 and walked on its surface while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command spacecraft, and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24.

The first EVA on the lunar surface was performed by Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 21, 1969 ( UTC ), after the Apollo 11 Moon landing.

Schmitt is also the only geologist as well as the only person to have walked on the Moon who was never a member of the United States Armed Forces, although he is not the first civilian, since Neil Armstrong left military service prior to his landing in 1969.

* 1969 – Space Race: Neil Armstrong and Edwin " Buzz " Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission ( July 20 in North America ).

Seibert said they had originally planned to use Neil Armstrong's " One small step " quote, but lawyers said Armstrong owns his name and likeness, and Armstrong had refused, so the quote was replaced with a beeping sound.

Neil Alden Armstrong ( August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012 ) was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon.

Neil Armstrong

In 1985, Sir Edmund Hillary ( the first man to stand on the summit of Mount Everest ) and Neil Armstrong ( the first man to stand on the moon ) landed at the North Pole in a small twin-engined ski plane.

Gagarin was also honored by the American space program during Apollo 11 when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left a memorial satchel containing medals commemorating Gagarin and fellow cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov on the surface of the Moon.

* July 16 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 ( Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins ) lifts off toward the first landing on the Moon.

An estimated 500 million people worldwide watch in awe as Neil Armstrong takes his historic first steps on the Moon at 02: 56 UTC, the largest television audience for a live broadcast at that time.

* November 9 – Neil Armstrong records a world record speed in a rocket plane of 6, 587 km / h flying a X-15.

* March 16 – Gemini 8 ( David Scott, Neil Armstrong ) docks with an Agena target vehicle.

* August 5 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, first human to set foot on the Moon, Commander of Apollo 11 ( d. 2012 )

The twelve-part series chronicles the space program from its inception, through the familiar flights of Neil Armstrong and Jim Lovell, to the personal feelings surrounding the reality of moon landings.

Neil Armstrong

* August 25 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut ( b. 1930 )

Quincy Jones presents platinum copies of " Fly Me to the Moon " ( from It Might as Well Be Swing ) to Senator John Glenn and Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong

On July 20, 1969, he was the second human being to set foot on the Moon, following mission commander Neil Armstrong.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

Astronaut Neil Armstrong, an engineer before he participated in NASA's Apollo program, personally told Doohan on stage at Doohan's last public appearance, " From one old engineer to another, thanks, mate.

Astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong in NASA's training mockup of the Moon and lander module.

The key ingredient was Leon Neil Cooper's calculation of the bound states of electrons subject to an attractive force in his 1956 paper, " Bound Electron Pairs in a Degenerate Fermi Gas ".

This connection was first formally made by Dr George Bennett of the Australian Museum in 1871, but in the early 1990s, palaeontologist Pat Vickers-Rich and geologist Neil Archbold also cautiously suggested that Aboriginal legends " perhaps had stemmed from an acquaintance with prehistoric bones or even living prehistoric animals themselves ...

Cannibalism was reported by the journalist Neil Davis during the South East Asian wars of the 1960s and 1970s.

As the band's primary songwriter, Neil Finn was under pressure to create a second album to match their debut and the band joked that one potential title for the new release was Mediocre Follow-Up.

Tim Finn had resumed his solo career after leaving the group in 1992 and he also worked with Neil on a second Finn Brothers album, Everyone Is Here, which was released in 2004.

Writing in 2010 Neil Finn said, " When we lost Paul it was like someone pulled the rug out from underneath everything, a terrible jolt out of the dark blue.

As the recording sessions progressed it was decided that the album would be issued under the Crowded House band name, rather than as a Neil Finn solo album.

The early disco sound was largely an urban American phenomenon with producers and labels such as SalSoul Records ( Ken, Joe and Stanley Cayre ), West End Records ( Mel Cheren ), Casablanca ( Neil Bogart ), and Prelude ( Marvin Schlachter ) to name a few.

Of the previously unreleased songs, " Down to the Wire " features the New Orleans pianist Dr. John with Buffalo Springfield on an item from their shelved Stampede album ; " Love Is a Rose " was a minor hit for Linda Ronstadt in 1975 ; " Winterlong " received a cover by Pixies on the Neil Young tribute album from 1989, The Bridge ; and " Campaigner " is a Young song critical of Richard Nixon.

For many years, Decade was the only Neil Young compilation album available.

The following year, Treasures, an album of covers of 1960s and ' 70s hits was released, and featured a diverse collection of material, including songs by Mac Davis, Pete Seeger, Kris Kristofferson, Cat Stevens, Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell.

A second and more contemporary collaboration with Harris and Ronstadt, Trio II ( 1999 ), was released and its cover of Neil Young's " After the Gold Rush " won a Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals.

It was on the sets of Dementia 13 that he met his future wife Eleanor Jessie Neil.

Although this phenomenon was nothing new, ( the most famous example being Neil Blaney's " Donegal Mafia ") it increased significantly from the early 90's particularly in the Dublin Region with former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern's " Drumcondra mafia " and the separate groups supporting Tom Kitt and Séamus Brennan in Dublin South largely separate from the official party structure.

Lieutenant-General Neil Ritchie had decided not to hold the defences on the Egyptian border, because the defensive plan there relied on his infantry holding defended localities, while a strong armoured force was held back in reserve to foil any attempts to penetrate or outflank the fixed defences.

My Favorite Headache, Lee's first solo album, was released on November 14, 2000 while Rush was on a hiatus due to tragedies in drummer Neil Peart's life.

At first, the band was under-rehearsed and played poorly, but improved markedly with steady gigging and received rapturous responses at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, Texas and at a filmed concert at Liberty Hall in Houston ( with Neil Young and Linda Ronstadt sitting in ) and Max's Kansas City in New York City.

Hawks was the oldest of five children and his birth was followed by Kenneth Neil Hawks ( August 12, 1899-January 2, 1930 ), William Bellinger Hawks ( January 29, 1901-January 10, 1969 ), Grace Louise Hawks ( October 17, 1903-December 23, 1927 ) and Helen Bernice Hawks ( 1906-May 4, 1911 ).

Historian Neil Davidson notes that “ after 1746 there was an entirely new level of participation by Scots in political life, particularly outside Scotland ”.