This is But Why, a podcast for curious kids produced at Vermont Public Radio.

I'm Jane Lindholm.

On this show, we take questions from interesting kids like you and we dig up the answers.

Today we're talking about something we all see at night, but only a very few, very lucky

people have ever been able to visit.

Today we're going to learn all about the moon.

That recording was astronaut Neil Armstrong.

You may have heard of him.

On July 20th, 1969, he and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin were the first two people in the

history of the world to walk on the moon.

Their mission was named Apollo 11.

The moon was to land a lunar module, nicknamed the eagle on the moon.

After their spaceship landed on the moon, they put on their spacewalking suits and opened

the door of their ship.

And then they took those first very important steps.

But they weren't just going to the moon to see if they could or for the sheer adventure

of it.

The astronauts and NASA, the US Space Program, were doing experiments and collecting samples

of wind and lunar rocks.

Lunar means of the moon.

It's from the Latin word that means moon.

And if you speak French or Spanish or Italian, you'll know that word, lunar or lunar.

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