Apollo 11: July 20, 1969 - Forty-Nine Years Ago, perhaps Mankind's Greatest Journey

the O-T lurking conspiracy theorists / hoaxers aside, as their brand of cultural vandalism is but a childish need to sour the greatness of that day...

but less than a decade after JFK set the goal, thousands of engineers, scientists, fabricators, electricians and other workers in Houston, New Orleans, Huntsville, Miss. Gulf Coast, Titusville, Bethpage NY, Downey CA and numerous other locations combined their mastery of orbital physics, rocketry, spacecraft design, aerospace, sewing, computer design, aluminum welding and dozens of other disciplines, and achieved a goal dreamed about for thousands of years.

Here's to the humans who dreamed about it, the ones who made it happen, and the three who climbed into that command module at Cape Canaveral/Kennedy and ultimately, forty-nine years ago today, took One Small Step for a Man, One Giant Leap for Mankind.