Forty eight years ago tonight I was standing on the front porch beside by father (who was then 10 years younger than I am now) looking up at the moon in awe of the fact that two Americans were standing on it's surface. I am still awed by that moment, all these years later.




https://youtu.be/d73jCthcAok

Apollo 11 as seen from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter:



The "trail" leading off to the left toward the large crater are Neil Armstrong's footprints, etched in the lunar surface for hundreds of years.