Apollo 11 memory

Fifty years ago today, two Americans put their feet on the moon  - the farthest distance from home that any human has ever been. 

Walter Cronkite, news anchor at CBS television who covered the splashdown four days later, had this to say:

"The date's now indelible. It's going to be remembered as long as man survives — July 20, 1969 — the day a man reached and walked on the moon. The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us. Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins are the best of us, and they've led us further and higher than we ever imagined we were likely to go."

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(to be continued Monday)