Stepping off the lunar landing module Eagle, Armstrong turned into the main human to stroll on the surface of the moon. The American push to send space travellers to the moon has its starting points in a well-known interest President John F. Kennedy made to an exceptional joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961: "I trust this country ought to submit itself to accomplishing the objective, before this decade is out, of finding a man on the moon and returning him securely to Earth." At the time, the United States was all the while trailing the Soviet Union in space advancements, and Cold War-period America respected Kennedy's intense proposition.

In 1966, following five long periods of work by a global group of researchers and specialists, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) led the main unmanned Apollo mission, testing the basic honesty of the proposed dispatch vehicle and shuttle mix. At that point, on January 27, 1967, catastrophe struck at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, when a fire broke out amid a kept an eye on platform trial of the Apollo shuttle and Saturn rocket. Three space travelers were murdered in the fire.
Notwithstanding the difficulty, NASA and it's a great many workers moved forward, and in October 1968, Apollo 7, the principal kept an eye on Apollo mission, circled Earth and effectively tried a significant number of the advanced frameworks expected to direct a moon excursion and landing.
 Armstrong, a 38-year-old nonmilitary personnel inquire about the pilot, was the leader of the mission. In the wake of voyaging 240,000 miles in 76 hours, Apollo 11 went into a lunar circle on July 19.  After two hours, the Eagle started its drop to the lunar surface, and at 4:18 p.m. the specialty contacted down on the southwestern edge of the Sea of Tranquility. Armstrong instantly radioed to Mission Control in Houston, Texas, a well-known message: "The Eagle has landed."
At 10:39 p.m., five hours in front of the first timetable, Armstrong opened the bringing forth of the lunar module. As he advanced down the lunar module's step, a TV camera joined to the specialty recorded his advance and channeled the flag back to Earth, where several million viewed in extraordinary expectation. At 10:56 p.m., Armstrong talked his adage, which he later fought was somewhat humbled by his mouthpiece and intended to be "that is one little advance for a man, one monster jump for humankind." He at that point planted his left foot on the dark, fine surface, stepped forward, and mankind had strolled on the moon.
"Buzz" Aldrin went along with him on the moon's surface at 11:11 p.m., and together they took photos of the territory, planted a U.S. hail, ran a couple of basic logical tests, and talked with President Richard M. Nixon by means of Houston. By 1:11 a.m. on July 21, the two space travelers were back in the lunar module and the bring forth was shut. The two men rested that night on the surface of the moon, and at 1:54 p.m. the Eagle started its rising back to the order module.
There would be five more effective lunar landing missions, and one impromptu lunar swing-by, Apollo 13. The keep going men to stroll on the moon, space travelers Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt of the Apollo 17 mission, left the lunar surface on December 14, 1972. The Apollo program was an expensive and work concentrated undertaking, including an expected 400,000 designers, professionals, and researchers, and costing $24 billion (near $100 billion in the present dollars). The cost was advocated by Kennedy's 1961 command to beat the Soviets to the moon, and after the accomplishment was refined continuous missions lost their feasibility.