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Schmitt advocated for a landing on the far side of the Moon until told by Director of Flight Operations Christopher C. Kraft that it would not happen as NASA lacked the funds for the necessary communications satellites. [42] Landing site and surrounding area, as imaged from the Apollo 17 command module, 1972
Soon after that the first Moon landing and the first landing on any extraterrestrial body was performed by Luna 2, [1] which intentionally impacted the Moon on 14 September 1959. The far side of the Moon , which is always facing away from Earth due to tidal locking , was seen for the first time by Luna 3 in (7 October 1959).
A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, ... with the last departing the lunar surface in December 1972.
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]
(By the way, don't Google "Apollo 11 images" unless you're prepared to sort through pages of fake moon landing conspiracy websites.) The most famous one is this iconic picture of Aldrin below.
Jim Lovell and Fred Haise were scheduled to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 13 mission, but the lunar landing was aborted following an explosion in the spacecraft service module en route to the Moon. Haise was again scheduled to walk on the Moon as commander of Apollo 19, but Apollo 18 and Apollo 19 were canceled on September 2, 1970.
(Reuters) -Odysseus, the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon in half a century, lost power and went dormant on Thursday as it entered a frigid lunar nightfall, ending its mission a week ...
To date, the last human to stand on the Moon was Eugene Cernan, who as part of the Apollo 17 mission, walked on the Moon in December 1972. Moon rock samples were brought back to Earth by three Luna missions ( Luna 16 , 20 , and 24 ) and the Apollo missions 11 through 17 (except Apollo 13 , which aborted its planned lunar landing).