NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of an unusual rock using its Left Mastcam-Z camera on Sept 13, 2024. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Thomas Thomopoulos

On this day, in 1969, for the first time in thousands of years of human history, people walked on the surface of a celestial body that was not our world.

First, tentative steps out of the cradle by those who really did go where no-one has gone before...

"We came in peace, for all mankind"

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