The History of the United States Trading Cards series was released in 2004 by The Upper Deck Company. The 300-card base series chronicles America from early indigenous cultures to the modern era. The series was sold in hobby boxes and complete 300-card factory base sets. Each hobby box contains 18 packs with 10 cards per pack.

The odds of finding a "Famous Americans" insert card are approximately 1:5 packs. The ten-card subset includes a photograph of Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong. The NASA photograph was taken on January 9, 1969.

Upon descending the steps of the Apollo 11 lunar module (the Eagle) and becoming the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, Armstrong uttered the renowned words: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Served as a fighter pilot in the Korean War and as a civilian test pilot for NASA. Went into the astronaut program in 1962. He was the pilot for Gemini 8, which performed the first docking of two space vehicles.