Fifty years ago tonight...

"Good luck, Mister Gorsky!"Okay, there was never a "Mister Gorsky" and Armstrong never said that.  But everyone else is posting "One small step for man..." and I just had to be the oddball tonight.Happy Fiftieth Anniversary to Apollo 11's touchdown in Mare Tranquilitat...

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"The Eagle has landed."

Neil Armstrong1930 - 201...

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"That's one small step for a man..."

"...one giant leap for mankind."(And before anybody gives me grief over it, in the past few years audio analysis has determined that Armstrong did indeed say "step for a man" :-)Forty years ago today, on July 20th, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin, with the assistance of a few hundred thousand of their good friends back on Earth, fulfilled...

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