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>> History.

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Humanity's chronicle of its own
existence and the unending story

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of those throughout time,
whether through courage

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or unbridled fearlessness, who
chose to be bold, to explore,

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and without intention
sometimes, become remembered

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as our planet's icons.

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Whether they ventured
into the farthest reaches

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of the western frontier, the
deepest waters of our planet,

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or the highest heavens above,

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those icons would be indelibly
written into history as the ones

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who changed the planet's
[inaudible] itself forever.

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Sometimes history
pursues the individual.

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Throughout the time
he was growing up

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and throughout his career, Neil
Armstrong followed his passion.

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A simple man from a small
town, Armstrong was America.

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Apollo XI was never
guaranteed to be a success.

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It wasn't even guaranteed
to place humans on the moon,

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but because of time and place,
the ingredients and the recipe

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for history, Neil
Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin,

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and Mike Collins took
a voyage for the ages.

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They flew on the success of a
half million people and dozens

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of previous missions,
and on July 20, 1969,

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Neil Armstrong hopped
down a ladder,

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stepped onto Tranquility base,
and the whole world stopped

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as one to marvel and wonder.

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Neil and Buzz only spent about
two and a half hours walking

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on the moon, not even enough
time to drive from Houston

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to Dallas, but the
world watched as one

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of humanity's greatest
dreams was achieved.

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Through grainy television
images,

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we watched as two astronauts,
two humans took part

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in our greatest adventure.

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Can one man change history?

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Without a doubt, but history
never changed this man.

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For the decades that followed,

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Neil never embraced
his legendary status.

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He rarely spoke about himself,
but was quick to give credit

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to all of the people who
made Apollo XI possible.

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Neil never could have
predicted the role he would play

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in changing the way humanity
would forever view its place

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in the universe.

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But history chose him, and
even though he could have never

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predicted it, what
a choice it was.

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>> History is a sequence
of random events

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and unpredictable choices,
which is why the future is