moon landing
Touching satellite soil
A moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the lunar surface.
The term most often refers to crewed missions, especially the Apollo 11 landing in 1969—the first time humans set foot on another world: Where were you when you watched the moon landing?
Uncrewed probes also make moon landings for scientific research.
Federal space exploration bureau
- Saturn VApollo program launch vehicle
- EagleProper name or brand
- command moduleSpacecraft's control and living section
- lunar moduleSpacecraft for surface landings
mission control · Houston · splashdown · Cape Canaveral · Kennedy Space Center · service module · lunar rover · orbit
Late sixties year
- Neil ArmstrongFirst person on moon
- giant leapVery large jump
- footprintMark from stepping
- space raceContest for orbital superiority
Buzz Aldrin · Michael Collins · Cold War · milestone · achievement · broadcast · television · global audience
Dark lunar plain
- cratersImpact-formed depressions
- regolithFragmented covering over bedrock
- mareFemale adult equine
- highlandsElevated, hilly land areas
lunar surface · moondust · gravity · desolation · lunar samples · bootprint · descent · touchdown
NASA
Federal space exploration bureau
- Saturn VApollo program launch vehicle
- EagleProper name or brand
- command moduleSpacecraft's control and living section
lunar module · mission control · Houston · splashdown · Cape Canaveral · Kennedy Space Center · service module · lunar rover · orbit · reentry
1969
Late sixties year
- Neil ArmstrongFirst person on moon
- giant leapVery large jump
- footprintMark from stepping
Buzz Aldrin · Michael Collins · space race · Cold War · milestone · achievement · broadcast · television · global audience · humanity
Sea of Tranquility
Dark lunar plain
highlands · lunar surface · moondust · gravity · desolation · lunar samples · bootprint · descent · touchdown · liftoff
frontier
Edge of settlement
- pioneeringFirst to explore territory
- discoveryAct of finding something
- voyageJourney by sea
odyssey · expedition · uncharted · quest · journey · adventure · new world · unknown · boldness · human spirit
hoax
Deliberate deception for effect
debunked · flag waving · shadows · crosshairs · Kubrick · denial · evidence · proof · footage · radiation
- 20th CenturyWorld War I aftermath, Cuban Missile Crisis, atomic bomb, New Deal, Nazi Germany
- NASAApollo, Artemis, astronauts, Cape Canaveral, Hubble
- Space HistoryApollo 11, Sputnik, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Apollo program
- spaceflightlaunch, astronaut, spacecraft, liftoff, orbit
- historical imageshistorical portraits, old photos, archival footage, black and white, sepia photos
- Moon topicsApollo missions, lunar exploration, lunar module, lunar surface, Neil Armstrong
moon landinglunar orbit
Path around Earth's satellite
flyby · near miss · passing by · Earth orbit
moon, landing, landscape, landed, lunatic, moonwalk, landward, lander, semilunar