(EDITOR'S NOTE: "Apollo 11: An AP Special Anniversary Edition," available in paperback and e-book exclusively on Amazon.com , chronicles America's journey to the moon. The following is an excerpt from Chapter 12.)

Footprints on the Moon

There was always the moon, and with it, unwritten history. Perhaps the story of Creation itself.

Always the moon, staring out of everyone's sky. Nothing has so captured the eye and mind of man. She stands, as always, large on the horizon, shrinks in her zenith. On hot muggy nights, she flames as orange as the sun rising from the ocean. On blue summer days, her...