Chapter 1 July 20, 1969 The lunar module was on the Moon. Astronaut Neil Armstrong ame out of the door and looked up into black space. He looked down at the gray rocks. The Moon waited. Slowly, he moved down the stairs. When he got to the bottom, he stopped. Then, he carefully put his foot down on the ground. He was the first man on the Moon. Three hundred and twenty thousand kilometers away on Earth, people watched Neil Armstrong on television. They laughed and shouted. A man was on the Moon! Jim Lovell sat in front of his television with his wife and children I'm not the first man on the Moon Jim said to his son Jeffrey, "But will go there. Jeffrey was only five years old and he was excited."Look at the rocks, Dad!" he shouted. "Look at the moon rocks I see them Jeffrey, Jim answered. Jeffrey's sisters Susan and Barbara and his fifteen-year-old brother Jay watched, too. They saw a second astronaut, Buzz Aldrin. come out of the lunar module. He stopped at the top of the stairs, then he too climbed down to the Moon. Jeffrey looked at his father. "Are you really going to th Moon?" he asked. Jim smiled. "Yes, I am. But I went before, remember? I was on Apollo 8. We only went around the Moon on that trip we didn't walk on it. But when I go on the Apollo 14 trip, Fred Haise and I will walk on the Moon." "When will you go?" asked Jeffrey. Neil Armstrong is on Apollo 11," said Jim. "Pete Conrad will go on the next trip. Alan Shepard will be on Apollo 13. After that, I'll go with Apollo 1