NASA plots a return to the moon within a decade — but this time astronauts will stay there

A Satellite grad who says NASA's history is her history, too. Through their eyes, we view how what happened in space in July 1969 changed life in an iconic part of Florida. On July 20, 1969, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, posed for a photograph beside the deployed United States flag during an Apollo 11 moonwalk. The Lunar Module is on the left, and the footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible. Bob Richards remembers watching the gray, ghostly figures bounce across his family's black-and-white TV screen nearly a half-century ago: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the first humans walking on the moon.