Sentence examples for first footprint from inspiring English sources

People have looked up for tens of thousands of years and wondered what was up there and all at once in our time Neil was able to go up there and make that first footprint on the moon.

Throughout its history, the space program has provided us with enduring images such as Apollo 8's 1968 photo "Earthrise," captured while in orbit around the Moon; Neil Armstrong's first footprint on the Moon a year later; and Voyager 1's 1990 "family portrait" mosaic of our solar system, in which Earth appears as a lonely "Pale Blue Dot," as the photograph is called.

As centuries of speculative fiction in books and more recently in films make clear, "one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind" was taken by the human spirit many times and in many ways before Neil Armstrong stamped humankind's first footprint on the Moon.

Consider, next, the case with the first footprint state being xx-type, (12).

The first footprint is well preserved, with three toes facing forward and one short, thumblike toe facing rearward.

Consider the case with the first footprint state being of eij-transition type, and the second footprint thereby constrained to be of the appropriate xx-type (11).

I walked in the virgin snow, making the first footprints of the day.

What was it Neil Armstrong said when he made those famous first footprints?

I was trying to come to grips with the fact that it had been 40 years since Neil Armstrong made those first footprints in the lunar soil, on July 20 , 1969 to be exact.

The first footprints on Mars by human beings will happen in our lifetime in the next 10 to 20 years," he says.

These remnants of America's golden era of space exploration, including the spot where Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzzz" Aldrin Jr. left the first footprints on the lunar surface, may become vulnerable as dozens of private teams, spurred on by $30 million in prize money from Google and the X Prize Foundation, race to return to the moon as early as next year.