Error: Image is invalid or non-existent. A moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned (robotic) missions. The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission, on 13 September 1959. The United States' Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon, on 20 July 1969. There have been six manned U.S.
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What happened to India’s Chandrayaan-2 moon mission?
On Saturday, at 1.35AM IST (Friday 4.05 EST/ 9.05 CET), India's Chandrayaan-2 began its descent towards the moon's surface. ...
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Nvidia replicated the moon landing with RTX graphics
You may recall that approximately five years ago, Nvidia showed off its latest lighting tech (at the time) by recreating ...
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Google used 107,000 solar panels to create a portrait of Apollo 11 pioneer Margaret Hamilton
To celebrate 50 years since NASA's moon landing mission, Google made a massive portrait of Apollo 11 pioneer Margaret Hamilton ...
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Would your mobile phone be powerful enough to get you to the moon?
Many people who are old enough to have experienced the first moon landing will vividly remember what it was like watching ...
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We can thank the Apollo moon missions for these widely used technologies
NASA’s Apollo programme was one of the most challenging technological achievements in the 20th century. Beyond the space ...
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Project A119: Inside the United States' secret plan to blow up the Moon
It was the height of the Cold War. At odds were the United States and the former Soviet Union, both attempting to posture ...
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A cotton seed sprouted - and died - on China's Lunar Lander
On Tuesday, Chinese media reported that one of the cotton seeds aboard the Chang’e 4 lunar lander sprouted, marking the ...
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Russia to build Moon colony by 2040: NASA says hold my beer
Russia's federal space agency intends to establish a lunar colony by the year 2040. NASA, meanwhile, announced today that ...
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SpaceX is flying a Japanese billionaire to the moon in 2023
Last week, SpaceX announced it had signed up its first passenger for a trip to the moon. It's now revealed who that is: Japanese ...
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NASA just made thousands of hours of Apollo 11 tapes public for the first time
When Apollo 11 descended from the heavens, touching down on the moon on July 20, 1969, three brave men became immortals, ...
