Moon Landing

Apollo 11 puts humans on the Moon — the single greatest technological achievement of the species.

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon on July 20, 1969. The achievement required 400,000 workers, $25.4 billion (1960s dollars), and pushing every engineering discipline to its limits.

Perspective

We went to the Moon and then... stopped. The most revealing thing about the Moon landing isn't that we did it — it's that we did it for political reasons and then lost interest. It shows that human capability isn't the bottleneck; motivation and funding are.