Lunar lander
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A lunar lander or Moon lander is a spacecraft designed to land on the surface of the Moon. As of 2024, the Apollo Lunar Module is the only lunar lander to have ever been used in human spaceflight, com
Apollo Lunar Module Eagle as seen from Apollo command and service module Columbia during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission
Moon landing
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A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a crewed or robotic spacecraft on the Moon. The first human-made object to touch the Moon was Luna 2 in 1959, and the first crewed mission to land on
Lunar lander
…A lunar lander or Moon lander is a spacecraft designed to land on the surface of the Moon. As of 2024, the Apollo Lunar Module is the only lunar lander to have ever been used in human spaceflight, completing six lunar landings from 1969 to…
A still frame from a video transmission, taken moments before Neil Armstrong became the first human to step onto the surface of the Moon, at 02:56 UTC on 21 July 1969. An estimated 500 million people worldwide watched this event, the largest television audience for a live broadcast at that time.
The view through the window of the Lunar Module Orion shortly after Apollo 16's landing
The first image of another world from space, returned by Luna 3, showed the far side of the Moon in October 1959.
A 1963 conceptual model of the Apollo Lunar Excursion Module