Cohocton Central School - Chieftain Yearbook (Cohocton, NY)

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“Thats One Small Step for Man. One Giant Leap for Mankind ISeil A. Armstrong

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The Class of 1970 of Cohocton Central School Proudly Presents the DECADE EDITION of Our Yearbook Entitled CHIEFTAIN 1970 Vol. XXIII

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By SAUL PETT AP Special Correspondent SPACE CENTER. Houston (AP) — They took their first steps onto the moon cautiously, like prudent boys testing the first ice of winter on a country pond. When first they walked, they walked carefully and slowly, leaning forward, plodding heavi- ly like tired old cops on a beat in Staten Island. As they acquired confidence, they walked faster, now with a slow bounce in the one-sixth gravity of the moon. And then they ran and their stride was longer than on earth and their shoes seemed suspended off the strange lunar surface, with something of the floating quality of figures on slow motion film. When they were still, they seemed very still, as if frozen, and they leaned forward like puppets to be at a lunar form of attention when the president spoke to them from earth. All the while, the earth was “bright and beautiful” above them. In this first incredible day of an incredible new era one needs to repeat that: the earth was above them. In the distance, the lunar sur- face looked pocked and leathery like the back of a dead alligator. Goser up. it looked like rubble, like earth levelled roughly after a disaster, dead. They looked ghostlike on the soundless, airless, mostly color- less moon. Over the curving horizon, only one and a half miles away on a planet smaller than earth, there was the black- ness of space and infinity. The foreground was starkly lighted by the sun and the men and their vehicle cast long shadows. It was dawn on the moon and a dawn in the history of man. Neil Alden Armstrong, for- merly of 601 West Benton St., Wapakoneta, a town in Ohio, a state in the United States, a country on the planet earth, ex- tended his left foot onto the moon. “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for man- kind,” he said. The first words were fine. History would be con- ten 3