Moon landing

This article is about lunar landings in general. For the Cold War "Race to the Moon", see Space Race. For the first crewed Moon landing, see Apollo 11. For other uses, see Moon landing (disambiguation).

Clickable map of the locations of all successful soft landings on the Moon to date (top)

  •   Luna program (USSR)
  •   Surveyor program (United States)
  •   Apollo program (United States)
  •   Chang'e program (China)
  •   Chandrayaan program (India)
  •   SLIM (Japan)
  •   Commercial Lunar Payload Services (United States)

Dates are landing dates in Coordinated Universal Time. Except for the Apollo program, all soft landings were uncrewed.

Asterisk indicates a partial success.

A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, including both crewed and robotic missions. The first human-made object to touch the Moon was Luna 2 in 1959.[3]

In 1969, Apollo 11 was the first crewed mission to land on the Moon.[4] There were six crewed landings between 1969 and 1972, and numerous uncrewed landings. All crewed missions to the Moon were conducted by the Apollo program, with the last departing the lunar surface in December 1972. After Luna 24 in 1976, there were no soft landings on the Moon until Chang'e 3 in 2013. All soft landings took place on the near side of the Moon until January 2019, when Chang'e 4 made the first landing on the far side of the Moon.[5]

  1. ^ "Manned Space Chronology: Apollo_11". spaceline.org. Retrieved 6 February 2008.
  2. ^ "Apollo Anniversary: Moon Landing "Inspired World"". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 21 July 2004. Retrieved 6 February 2008.
  3. ^ "Luna 2". NASA–NSSDC.
  4. ^ NASA Apollo 11 40th anniversary.
  5. ^ "Chinese spacecraft makes first landing on moon's far side". AP NEWS. 3 January 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
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