Students Visit the Embassy to Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Moon Landing

July 24, 2009

Information Officer welcomes students to the screening of Apollo 11: the Eagle Has Landed (State Dept.)

To celebrate both the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, the first manned mission to land on the moon, and the 50th anniversary of the establishment of NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration), Public Affairs Kathmandu's American Library screened Apollo 11: the Eagle Has Landed to 57 students of Lincoln College, Kathmandu. Information Officer (IO) Nicole Chulick welcomed the audience and took them back 40 years to July 20, 1969 the day Neil Armstrong of the Apollo 11 mission stepped onto the lunar surface and said,"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."