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Landing airbag punctured, resulting in loss of attitude control shortly before planned touchdown, [29] impacted Moon on 6 December 1965 at 21:51:30 UTC. [37] 37: Luna 9 (E-6 No.13) Luna 9: 31 January 1966: Molniya-M: Lavochkin: Lander: Success First spacecraft to land successfully on the Moon. Touchdown on 3 February 1966 at 18:45:30 UTC. [38]
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.
Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon.Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above.
Launch of AS-506 space vehicle on July 16, 1969, at pad 39A for mission Apollo 11 to land the first men on the Moon. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1]
No woman has been to the Moon, but a number of non-human animals have circled or orbited it, including two tortoises, several turtles, and five mice. Apollo missions 8 and 10–17 were the nine crewed missions to the Moon. Apollo 4–6 and AS-201 and AS-202 were uncrewed, while AS-203 is considered a test flight.
AS11-40-5952: Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment as left on the Moon by Apollo 11 Plot of arrival time of photons (Y axis) for each of many laser pulses sent to the Moon (X axis). This data, along with similar data from the other landing sites, shows there are man-made objects on the Moon in the locations of the Apollo landings.
Apollo 13 was slated to be the third landing on the moon after Apollo 8 (1968) and Apollo 12 (1969). Launched on April 11, 1970, the crew was led by commander Lovell, along with command module ...
Fifth lunar landing. Second Lunar Rover. Second deep space EVA. 47 Eugene A. Cernan (3) Ronald E. Evans Harrison H. Schmitt: 7 December 1972 Apollo 17: Moon: 19 December 1972 Apollo 17: Sixth and last lunar landing. Third and last Lunar Rover. Third and last deep space EVA. 48 Charles P. Conrad (4) Paul J. Weitz (1) Joseph P. Kerwin: 25 May ...