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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Search Search: US marks 40 years since man stepped on the moon AFP - Monday, July 20 WASHINGTON (AFP) - - The United States this week marks the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon walk, with President Barack Obama kicking off events by meeting at the White House Monday with the crew of the Apollo 11 mission. The crew became the first to accomplish the dream of ages and walk on the surface of the moon -- an endeavor now remembered at a time when future US dominance in space has become far less certain. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," said astronaut Neil Armstrong as he stepped down from the lunar lander onto the moon's Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969, as an estimated 500 million people on Earth crowded round televisions and radios. In addition to the White House reception, a host of events planned include a news conference in Washington Monday with astronauts from the Apollo program and a simulcast to science centers across the United States about the Apollo legacy and the future of space exploration. Celebrations will be held from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, where the Apollo 11 mission blasted off, to mission control at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas and at Washington's National Air and Space Museum. The lunar landing was a huge morale boost for a country mired in the Vietnam war and on edge because of the Cold War, ushering in a new sense of confidence and challenging concepts of science and religion. "That was a proud moment, to be a military person and to salute that (US) flag on the surface of the moon," astronaut Buzz Aldrin told the Fox News Sunday program. Aldrin, second to Armstrong to step onto the moon, said what stays with him most about his rendezvous with history was a realization, upon touchdown, of the scope of what he and the rest of NASA had achieved. "What I want to remember most is the glance between Neil and myself, with the engine shutoff, just those seconds after we touched down, because we had just completed the most critical door opening for exploration in all of humanity," Aldrin said. But dreams that we might all be able to travel to the stars some day have been rudely brought down to earth. US space agency NASA's ambitious plans to put US astronauts back on the moon by 2020 to establish manned lunar bases for further exploration to Mars under the Constellation project are increasingly in doubt. And other nations such as Russia, China and even India and Japan are increasingly honing and expanding their own space programs. "I think we are at an extremely critical juncture as we celebrate this anniversary because, we at least in the US are in the process of deciding... what is the future of humans in space," said John Logsdon, an expert in aerospace history at the Air and Space Museum. "And without government funding nothing happens," he said. The cost of Constellation is put at about 150 billion dollars, but estimates for the Ares I launcher to put the project into orbit have skyrocketed from 26 billion dollars in 2006 to 44 billion dollars last year. The mounting costs prompted Obama, soon after he took office, to order a close examination of the program. A blue-ribbon panel of experts headed by former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine is due to issue recommendations in late August. "With a few exceptions, we have the technology or the knowledge that we could go to Mars if we wanted with humans," Augustine said recently. "We could put a telescope on the moon if we wanted," he said. "The technology is by and large there. It boils down to what can we afford?" he asked. Only 12 men, all Americans, have ever walked on the moon, and the last to set foot there were in 1972, at the end of the Apollo missions. Currently NASA's budget is too small to pay for Constellation's Orion capsule, a more advanced and spacious version of the Apollo lunar module, as well as the Ares I and Ares V launchers needed to put the craft in orbit. With a space exploration budget of six billion dollars in 2009, Senator Bill Nelson of Florida, a former astronaut, said: "NASA simply can't do the job it's been given." Democrat Barney Frank, an influential US congressman who is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, is one of the budget skeptics. "Manned space travel adds far more cost than is justified in terms of scientific return," he said recently, mentioning the lower cost of sending robotic probes. To recapture one of mankind's most dramatic moments, NASA last week unveiled restored video footage of key moments from the Apollo 11 mission. And the record of America's crowning achievement remains visible on the moon -- in the shape of astronauts' footprints. "The first footprints on the moon will be there for a million years," reads a posting on a NASA website. "There is no wind to blow them away." 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