What was the turning point?
Our technology is much more advanced thanks to Apollo 11. We have much better knowledge of the moon now, thanks to this mission. Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin did many experiments while on the moon, such as comparing moon soils to earth. America was also competing with the Soviet Union so put a man on the moon first. The Soviet Union made many failed attempts to land objects on the moon, and never put a man on the moon, unlike the US. Apollo 11 made America a more powerful country as well. We are the first ever country to land on the moon, manned. Only citizens of America have been to and walked on the moon. Apollo 11 changed the way we think of the moon, and now we have samples of moon rocks for experiments. They also put scientific instruments on the moon called The Retroreflecter to measure moon quakes.