The world was transfixed by the grainy video from a camera attached to the Lunar Module as Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon. As Americans and countless others around the world stayed glued to theirtelevisions, Astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the face of the Moonon July 20, 1969, 53 years ago today. Armstrong, the commander of the Apollo 11mission climbed down a ladderfrom the Lunar Module Eagle to the surface in the Sea of Tranquility at 10:56 P.M. Eastern Day Light Time. As he climbed down he repeated a carefully constructed statement on what he knew would be a historic occasion. Viewers at home heard him say, “That’s one small step for man, one giant step for mankind.” Armstrong would late...