It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but I did not believe there would ever be future. I wanted to live dangerously, to push myself as far as I could go, and then see what happened to me when I got there. As it turned out, I 1nearly did not make it. Little by little, I saw my money dwindle to zero; I lost my apartment; I wound up living in the streets. If not for a girl named Kitty Wu, I probably 2would have starved to death. 3I had met her by chance only a short time before, but 4eventually I came to see that chance as a form of readiness a way of saving myself through the minds of others. That was the first part. From then on, strange things happened to me. I took the job with the old man in the wheelchair. I found out who my father was. I walked across the desert from Utah to California. That was a long time ago, of course, but I remeber them as the beginning of my life.

AUSTER, Paul. Moon Palace. Chatham, Kent: Faber & Faber, 1989. p. 1.

Complete the sentence below with the best alternative.

Man walked .................... the moon  .................... the first time  .................... 1969.