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
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
Space exploration
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Space exploration is the physical investigation of outer space by uncrewed robotic space probes and through human spaceflight.
Buzz Aldrin taking a core sample of the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission
Self-portrait of Curiosity rover on Mars's surface
A V-2 Rocket in the Peenemünde Museum in Germany
Model of a Russian Vostok spacecraft