Today is the anniversary of one of the most famous walks ever.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness

promise you made to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave.

I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging about 21,000 steps a day.

I'm walking right now and would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

So it was 53 years ago today, July 20th, 1969, that two astronauts, American astronauts, walked on the moon, and they estimate that as that was happening, a billion people were watching on television.

And that walk that lasted for two hours and 20

minutes, one of the most famous walks in history. It also probably was a walk that required more work,

more effort before it happened than any other walk in history

and certainly more work than the walk you and I are taking today.

So President Kennedy in 1961 announced the goal that we're going to go to the moon, we're going to land, we're going to come back safely.

He actually never said we're going to walk.

We're just going to go there, we're going to land, we're going to return safely.

And from that point on, it took eight years and 400,000 people to make that walk happen 53 years ago today.

For example, they needed math geniuses to figure out how to get from here to there.

Exactly precisely how to point the spacecraft, the rocket, in the

direction of the moon, so they don't miss it. And to paint you a picture, the little tiny window

that that rocket had to enter so that it could orbit around the moon would be similar to putting an apple on a stand at one end of a football field.

And then you being on the other end, 100 yards away, with a gun, rifle, or arrow, bow and arrow,

and hitting that apple, not just hitting the apple, hitting the skin of the

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