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Armstrong pilots Eagle to its landing on the Moon, July 20, 1969. When Armstrong again looked outside, he saw that the computer's landing target was in a boulder-strewn area just north and east of a 300-foot-diameter (91 m) crater (later determined to be West crater), so he took semi-automatic control.
A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, including both crewed and robotic missions. The first human-made object to touch the Moon was Luna 2 in 1959.
16 July 1969: Saturn V: NASA: Orbiter: Success Lunar Module Eagle: Lander/Launch Vehicle: Success First crewed landing on the Moon. The Lunar Module Eagle landed at 20:17 UTC on 20 July 1969. 73: Zond 7 (7K-L1 No.11L) Zond 7: 7 August 1969: Proton-K/D: Lavochkin: Flyby: Success Technology demonstration for planned crewed missions.
Source: NASA Armstrong took the photo with a 70mm lunar surface camera while the two explored a region of the moon known as the "Sea of Tranquility.". At an event promoting his new book, No Dream ...
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is holding a moon fest at its tourist stop, just a few miles from where the Saturn V rocket thundered away with Armstrong, Aldrin and Michael Collins on July 16, 1969.
It flew from Earth to lunar orbit on the command module Columbia, and then was flown to the Moon on July 20, 1969, by astronaut Neil Armstrong with navigational assistance from Buzz Aldrin. Eagle ' s landing created Tranquility Base, named by Armstrong and Aldrin and first announced upon the module's touchdown.
On June 16th, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins blasted off on a four-day, first-of-its-kind mission to the moon. The journey, which was funded by NASA through its ...
1969 saw humanity step onto another world for the first time. On 20 July 1969, the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, Eagle, landed on the Moon's surface with two astronauts aboard. . Days later the crew of three returned safely to Earth, satisfying U.S. President John F. Kennedy's challenge of 25 May 1961, that "this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of ...