A Place Other Than Earth

On July 20, nineteen sixty-nine, the world stopped dead in its tracks and changed forever, humans had stepped foot on something besides the earth, the moon. The United States had beaten every other country to the moon. It was a hard mission to achieve, because it takes a lot of people and time to land on the moon, a lot of bravery and money, and we the United States did it first!
The landing on the moon ended a thirteen year competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. In October nineteen fifty-seven, the Soviet Union had created the first artificial earth satellite, named…