# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/qslkSLoaLL
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11738611-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2014-07-21T02:40:25.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

A Giant Leap for Mankind: 45 years ago at 10:56 p.m. EDT Neil Armstrong is ready to plant the first human foot on another world. With more than half a billion people watching on television, he climbs down the ladder and proclaims: "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind." Buzz Aldrin joins him shortly, and offers a simple but powerful description of the lunar surface: "magnificent desolation." They explore the surface for two and a half hours, collecting samples and taking photographs.

Today, we stand on a new horizon, poised to take the next giant leap-deeper into the solar system. The Apollo missions blazed a path for human exploration to the moon and today we are extending that path to near-Earth asteroids, Mars and beyond.

Image Credit: NASA

#pathtomars #nextgiantleap #nasa #apollo11 #apollo45

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