4:56 AM Italian time: Armstrong and (20 minutes later) Aldrin land on the Moon (anticipating NASA’s plans); Armstrong, as soon as he lands, utters the famous phrase: “That’s one small step for [a] man … one giant leap for mankind”; Neil pulls a ring that activates a $1 million automatic camera made by Westinghouse weighing only 3 kg (cameras in the late 1960s weighed over 200 kg).
