Only five countries have landed on the Moon, but the U.S. hasn’t been back since the Nixon era
American astronaut Neil Armstrong changed history when he became the first human to set foot on the Moon. The Apollo 11 explorer famously proclaimed, «That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.» Sadly, Armstrong’s leap didn’t last for long. Three years later, the Apollo 17 mission became the last American expedition — manned or unmanned — from Earth to the Moon. At least, that was the last mission until Thursday, when the aptly-named Odysseus lunar lander changed the world forever.
