| The late sixties and the early seventies saw a flurry | | | | president of the USA, launching a spacecraft to take |
| of activity at the NASA headquarters as various | | | | man to the moon and return him safely back to |
| manned missions to the moon were executed one | | | | earth would prove beyond the shadow of a doubt to |
| after the other. Christopher Freville reasons that the | | | | the Soviets and the rest of the world, the powerful |
| race to the moon was basically triggered by the Cold | | | | capabilities of the USâ rocket technology. His |
| War between the US and the former Soviet Union. | | | | dream came true on July 20, 1969 when Mission |
| Their battle for supremacy in missile technology gave | | | | Commander Neil Alden Armstrong and Lunar Module |
| birth to powerful rockets which had immense lifting | | | | Pilot Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr. became the first |
| power. According to John F. Kennedy, the former | | | | men who stepped on the moon. |