The men from Apollo 11 might have spent only 21/2 hours outside the lunar module, and less than a day in all on the Moon's surface. But in that short space of time Neil Armstrong had joined - some would say even eclipsed - Columbus, Amundsen, Lindbergh, and the rest, in the pantheon of explorers whose exploits changed history.
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