Notable events in the history of human space exploration:
Quotes about Neil Armstrong, the American who was the first human to walk on the moon, who died Saturday at age 82:
Notable events in the history of human space exploration:
Quotes about Neil Armstrong, the American who was the first human to walk on the moon, who died Saturday at age 82:

On Sept. 12, 1962, President Kennedy delivered his famous "We choose to go to the moon" speech to launch the U.S. lunar space program. This was a bold challenge to a nation whose record in space exploration, until that point, had been marked with very public failures against the Soviet Union's success.

While President Obama made headlines for downplaying the threat posed by Venezuela's Hugo Chavez to national security, such naive remarks should hardly come as a surprise given his track record.

Seven weeks after she hanged herself, Mary Richardson Kennedy was reburied in a Cape Cod cemetery 700 feet from her original grave near other Kennedy family members.
Amid a court battle over their stalled development plan, a company planning to turn entertainer Wayne Newton's Las Vegas estate property into a tourist attraction told a state court judge it will borrow $1 million for upkeep of the "Danke Schoen" crooner's 51 Arabian horses.
Much of the Band's innovative sound was born in the "Big Pink."