Daily Archives: July 20, 2009

July 20, 1969 - With more than one billion people watching the event on television, astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon.  At the end of his moon walk, Armstrong demonstrated the moon’s weaker gravitational field by shanking a golf ball into a crater more than three miles away. NASA, unhappy about the stunt at the time, is planning a return trip to the moon in 2015 to retrieve the lost ball.