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4 days ago · Neil Armstrong, American astronaut and the first person to set foot on the Moon. After joining the space program in 1962, he became the command pilot of Gemini 8, which completed the first manual space docking maneuver. He is best known for accompanying Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. to the surface of the Moon on July 20, 1969.
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- Apollo 13
1 day ago · Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Apollo Lunar Module (LM) on July 20, 1969, and walked on the lunar surface, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command and service module (CSM), and all three landed safely on Earth in the Pacific Ocean on July 24.
3 days ago · The $93-billion plan to put astronauts back on the Moon. “There’s a lot we need to relearn or figure out,” says Juliane Gross, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in ...
2 days ago · As part of human exploration of the Moon, numerous space missions have been undertaken to study Earth's natural satellite. Of the Moon landings, Luna 2 of the Soviet Union was the first spacecraft to reach its surface successfully, [1] intentionally impacting the Moon on 14 September 1959.
3 days ago · In popular culture. See also. Notes. References. Bibliography. External links. Apollo 8 (December 21–27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave Earth's gravitational sphere of influence, and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing, and then departed safely back to Earth.
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