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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, ... marking the United States' first soft unmanned Moon landing in over 50 ...
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]
First soft landing on the Moon since 1976, lunar rover. Chang'e 4 China: 3 January 2019: First soft landing on the far side of the Moon, lunar rover. Beresheet Israel: 11 April 2019: Israeli lunar lander crash landed on the Moon. Chandrayaan-2 India: 8 September 2019
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.
Landing humans on the Moon by the end of 1969 required the most sudden burst of technological creativity, and the largest commitment of resources ($25 billion; $182 billion in 2023 US dollars) [22] ever made by any nation in peacetime. At its peak, the Apollo program employed 400,000 people and required the support of over 20,000 industrial ...
Moon landing deniers say there's clear photographic evidence of this, and point out that because there's no breeze on the moon, this must be fake. Apollo 11astronaut Edwin Buzz Aldrin, on the Moon ...
During the mission, an uncrewed Orion capsule spent 10 days in a distant retrograde 60,000 kilometers (37,000 mi) orbit around the Moon before returning to Earth. [10] Artemis II, the first crewed mission of the program, will launch four astronauts in 2025 [11] on a free-return flyby of the Moon at a distance of 8,900 kilometers (5,500 mi). [12 ...