In what year did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon?

The story behind the answer

1969 is correct because on July 20 of that year, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon, while Michael Collins orbited above in the command module. Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface with the famous words, “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.”

This milestone capped the 1960s Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union, fulfilling President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 pledge to land a man on the Moon before decade’s end. Over 600 million people watched the broadcast. Memory tip: think “’69—one giant step in the ’60s,” or link it to the phrase “Summer of ’69,” the same year humanity first set foot on another world.