"That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" became one of the world’s most famous sentences on that historic day of July 20th, 1969, broadcasted by the Mission Control in Houston. While pronouncing the phrase, Neil Armstrong, who was 38 at the time, had become the first earthling on the moon. Exactly at 02:56:15 UTC he stepped onto the lunar surface, followed by Colonel Edwin Buzz Aldrin 19 minutes later. Together they planted a U.S. flag which even today remains a symbol of human achievement. Moreover, this groundbreaking event brought some sort of unity of the humankind, since the images of the planet Earth rising on the Moon’s horizon was a breathtaking and momentous experience that people around the world shared knowing its significance.

The idea behind the ApolLOD project started exactly with this rather popular event, which was our starting point when choosing a person, a place, a date and a concept. However, together with the development of the project came its expansion, so we moved from the abovementioned idea and proceeded to related ideas and concepts, dealing, in that way, with the exploration of the space in a broader sense. To that end, we addressed events, people, concepts and other constituents we believe are relevant as well as interconnected with our principal idea.