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Following those awesome footsteps into the unknown

While he was on the Moon, transmitting a laconic description of his surroundings as "different, but it's very pretty out here", Neil Armstrong mused: "I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this."

Richard Nixon, addressing the Apollo XI crew four days after Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the Moon, lived up to expectations, flatly declaring: "This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation."

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