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- Why was the Apollo 11 Moon landing so important? The simple reason is that it had never been done before - and it was a big ambition for countries, and their space programmes, to be the first to land a human on the Moon's surface. In the run-up to the Moon landing, the US was competing with the Soviet Union in something called the space race.
Jul 16, 2019 · Why was the Apollo 11 Moon landing so important? The simple reason is that it had never been done before - and it was a big ambition for countries, and their space programmes, to be...
Jul 17, 2019 · It was the Apollo 11 mission that demonstrated convincingly for the first time how ancient the Moon is — the samples brought back were more than 3 billion years old. We learned that the Moon recorded and illuminated a period of solar system history that we hadn’t begun to appreciate through our study of Earth.
2 days ago · The lunar module Eagle of the Apollo 11 mission landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to land on the Moon and walk on the lunar surface.
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Jul 11, 2024 · The primary objective of Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961: perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth.
Apr 17, 2015 · The primary objective of Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961: perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth.
After the Apollo 11 mission, officials from the Soviet Union said landing humans on the Moon was dangerous and unnecessary. At the time the Soviet Union was attempting to retrieve lunar samples robotically.
Jul 9, 2019 · Reuters. It's nearly 50 years since the US became the first country to land men on the Moon. The Apollo 11 mission was a huge moment in US and world history, but what exactly happened and why...
