{"id":6140,"date":"2026-07-20T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6140"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:17:50","slug":"first-men-on-moon-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6140","title":{"rendered":"We Celebrate the First Men on Moon &#8211; 1969 &#8211; 56 Years Ago!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10457\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Apollo-11.gif\" alt=\"Apollo 11\" width=\"197\" height=\"233\" \/>Neil Armstrong and Edwin Eugene Aldrin landed the lunar module <em>Eagle<\/em> on the moon\u2019s surface in 1969<\/strong>. Armstrong walked on the moon first. The first human to do so, he stated, \u201cThat\u2019s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.\u201d The two men walked on the moon for over two hours. Michael Collins stayed aboard the <i>Apollo XI\u2019s<\/i> service module, <i>Columbia<\/i>. The moon walk was televised live, and everyone watched the event! The sense of great scientific accomplishment, accompanied by a big dose of patriotism, was amazing! Children could learn more about the landing and video at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/apollo\/apollo11.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moon Landing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Armstrong and Edwin Eugene Aldrin landed the lunar module Eagle on the moon\u2019s surface in 1969. Armstrong walked on the moon first. The first human to do so, he stated, \u201cThat\u2019s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.\u201d The two men walked on the moon for over two hours. Michael <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6140' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5027,784,783,781,5728,785,782],"class_list":["post-6140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5027","tag-eagle","tag-edwin-eugene-aldrin","tag-first-men-on-the-moon","tag-july-20","tag-michael-collins","tag-neil-armstrong","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6140"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28874,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6140\/revisions\/28874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}