News That Affects You - Youth Magazine Staff - June 1984

Youth Magazine Staff

Invasion of the Moon: 15 Years Later by Mike Bennett - Of Mice and Yen by Tim Reinagel and Lowell Wagner Jr. - Strike Back Against Cancer by Lowell Wagner Jr. - Los Angeles: Let the Games Begin by Tom Delamaler: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Astronaut Neil Armstrong said this 15 years ago as he became the first man to step onto the moon. More than 600 million people watched on television as July 20, 1969, brought the fulfillment of one of humanity's most ambitious dreams. The story began in 1957 when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite into orbit. America's leaders were stunned. "How did we fall so far behind?" they asked. "How can we catch up?" There seemed to be only one way. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library