Apollo 11: The Moon Landing | National Air and Space Museum
On July 20, 1969, humans walked on the Moon for the first time.We look back at the legacy of our first small steps on the Moon and look forward to the next giant leap.
airandspace.si.eduThe Apollo 11 lander Eagle touched down in the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon, not on Earth. Its exact lunar coordinates are near the southern rim of the Sea of Tranquility, about 6 kilometers west of West crater and roughly 20 kilometers south-southwest of Sabine D, with the ascent stage lifting off later to rendezvous with the command module. For context, this site is billions of years old and is on the Moon’s surface, so there is no landing on Earth involved in Apollo 11’s mission. If you’re asking about “where did Apollo 11 land on Earth” in a figurative or historical sense, the spacecraft re-entered and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, not on land, on July 24, 1969, after returning from the Moon.[4][7]
If you’d like, I can pull up a concise timeline of the Apollo 11 landing and splashdown with exact times and locations.
On July 20, 1969, humans walked on the Moon for the first time.We look back at the legacy of our first small steps on the Moon and look forward to the next giant leap.
airandspace.si.eduNASA chose the Apollo 11 landing site for engineering simplicity, but it had scientific benefits nevertheless.
blog.jatan.spaceApollo 11 landing site
sci.esa.intNASA chose the Apollo 11 landing site for engineering simplicity, but it had scientific benefits nevertheless.
jatan.spaceWhere did the Apollo astronauts land, and what did they do on the surface of the Moon? Sue Nelson explores what the Moon-walking astronauts got up to.
www.skyatnightmagazine.comThe spot where Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon is visible from Earth and is easy to spot through a telescope, provided you know how.
www.skyatnightmagazine.comThe Apollo 11 landing site as seen by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.
science.nasa.govNASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured new images of the Apollo 11 moon landing site. Space agency officials turned it into a video.
www.space.comThis lunar map is a mosaic of images taken by the Advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft. The image shows the landing site of Apollo 11 and three prominent craters in the vicinity which have been named in honour of the astronauts on board the first mission to land humans on the Moon.
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