Fifty years ago today, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon.
It took about 410,000 people to put them there. One of them was Vancouver resident Libby Montoya-Bunkley’s late father, whom she proudly described as “one of the top Hispanics who worked on the capsule.”
Heriberto Fernandez Montoya — H.F.
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