Do you remember the moon landings?

As Neil Armstrong stepped down from the lunar module, where were you in 1969 when you saw the pictures from the moon and heard the words "it's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"?

On 20 July it will be 40 years since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the Moon while their colleague Michael Collins orbited above.

When President Kennedy unveiled the plan to put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s, many doubted whether it would be possible.

However, just over eight years later and watched by hundreds of millions of people around the world on television, Neil Armstrong stepped off the Eagle Lander and uttered the words which have now become legendary.

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