This image shows the one of the United States largest accomplisments involving space exploration. This is an image from the Apollo 11 mission which landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. It successfully made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin the first humans to ever set foot on the moon. This mission helped to fufill President Kennedy's goal of landing on the moon before the Soviet Union putting the United States ahead of the Soviet Union in the space race. An estimated one fifth of the population watch the first lunar moonwalk live. This was a huge advancement for the United States. It opened up many other opportunities for space exploration. Apollo is the only space program that has send manned missions beyond Earth's low orbit. This program sparked interest in this field and in the technology field in general. It was a huge deal at the time and it still is today. Knowing about the universe and what has gone on in order form it can possibly help us in the future. And the technologies that have been developed in this field have helped with sending probes to space that have reached numerous other planets as well as devices such as the Mars rover. These advances help us to better understand the universe and what goes on. Therefore making this event a very important one in America and the worlds history.