Exploring the Moon: the past

Apollo 11 21 July 1969 NASA astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first humans to set foot on another body in space when they landed on the Moon in 1969. This mission ended the race to the Moon between the United States and the USSR. Apollo 12 19 November 1969 The second spacecraft to land on the Moon, Apollo 12 used a Doppler effect radar technique to precisely land the spacecraft within walking distance of the Surveyor 3 probe, which had landed on the lunar surface about two years prior. Apollo 14 5 February 1971 The commander on board the third spacecraft to land on the Moon was Alan Shepard, who, a decade earlier on 5 May 1961, had become the second person in space after Yuri Gagarin…

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