In 1994, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, the fast-food restaurant, Subway, distributed Kids’ Paks that included NASA-themed toys such as this Lunar Lander toy. The toy was made to look like an Apollo lunar module that took astronauts from lunar orbit around the Moon to the Moon’s surface during the Apollo program. On July 19, 1969, the Apollo 11 spacecraft, which included the command module Columbia and Apollo lunar module, Eagle, achieved lunar orbit around the moon. The lunar module detached from the command module and carried astronauts Neil Armstrong (1930 – 2012) and Buzz Aldrin (1930 – present) to the surface of the moon. On July 20th, 1969, the Apollo program achieved its goal when the Apollo lunar module landed on the Moon and an estimated 650 million people watched on television as Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon saying, “...one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

The Apollo 11 Moon landing was a significant event in American history that united the country with a sense of national pride. The dramatic moment momentarily unified a nation torn by the Vietnam War, racial divisions, and a political violence that had claimed the lives of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Internationally, Apollo 11 boosted the U.S. in its geopolitical clash with the Soviet Union, opened the imaginative possibilities of human spaceflight for an entire world, and solidified the United States as an international superpower.