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Learn what landing is and how it differs from alighting, flare, and splashdown. Explore the various factors and techniques involved in landing aircraft, parachutes, and spacecraft.
Learn about the first human-made object to touch the Moon in 1959 and the six crewed landings by Apollo program from 1969 to 1972. Find out the dates, locations and details of all successful soft and hard landings on the Moon by government and commercial space agencies.
Sky crane is a platform with eight engines that lowers the rover on three nylon tethers until the soft landing. Learn how it works, how it differs from previous landing methods, and how it was used for Curiosity and Perseverance.
Tranquility Base is the site where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed and walked on the Moon in July 1969. Learn about the site selection, name, status, and related topics of the first crewed lunar landing.
This web page lists various sources and observations that confirm NASA's account of the six Apollo missions to the Moon between 1969 and 1972. It includes independent photographs, radar tracking, and amateur astronomer reports from different countries and space programs.
Starship HLS (Human Landing System) is a lunar lander variant of the Starship spacecraft that is slated to transfer astronauts from a lunar orbit to the surface of the Moon and back. It is being designed and built by SpaceX under the Human Landing System contract to NASA as a critical element of NASA's Artemis program to land a crew on the Moon.
The Apollo program was the NASA project that landed the first men on the Moon from 1968 to 1972. It involved the development of the Saturn rockets, the Apollo spacecraft, and the Lunar Module, and faced challenges such as the Apollo 1 fire and the Apollo 13 abort.
Three US amphibious warfare ships in 2011 - the Landing Helicopter Dock USS Makin Island (LHD 8) leading the Landing Platform Dock USS New Orleans (LPD 18), rear, and the Landing Ship Dock USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52), fore. This is a list of United States Navy amphibious warfare ships.