I imagine the men that walked on the moon would be awfully surprised. I also imagine that the American people would call for the disbanding of NASA and the US space program as a whole would be put out of commission for a number of years.
Most of us watched it on TV.
Technically none yet since the Apollo moon landing was staged. just kidding, the answer is Richard Nixon who was president in 1969
Not really. Apollo 11 was the first actual landing attempt. Although Russia would have preferred to have beaten the US to the moon, they were never able to even lift a human beyond low Earth orbit. The US did send two manned mission into orbit around the moon before Apollo 11, but they were never scheduled for landing. A11 was the first true landing attempt by any space agency.
Apollo 11, with Neil Armstrong went to the moon and made the first manned landing in July 1969. JFK was assassinated in 1963, almost six year earlier. Though JFK committed the US to landing a man on the moon. Richard Nixon was the president at the time of the moon landing.
The moon landing was real. That it was otherwise has been an urban legend for years.
It proved that it was possible to make a soft landing on the moon.
The Moon since NASA was in the US
The first manned lunar missions were under the Apollo program of the US space agency NASA. The flights to the Moon began with a circling of the Moon by Apollo 8 in December, 1968, and ended with the last manned landing on the Moon, Apollo 17, in December, 1972.
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I imagine the men that walked on the moon would be awfully surprised. I also imagine that the American people would call for the disbanding of NASA and the US space program as a whole would be put out of commission for a number of years.
If one thinks a Moon landing is the arrival of an intact (i.e not a crash into the Moon) unmanned spacecraft onto the Moon's surface, then the Russians were the first to do this in 1966 However, if one thinks of a Moon landing as the arrival and return of a manned spacecraft onto the Moon's surface then the people of US were the first to do this in 1969. No other nation has yet made a manned moon landing.
Most of us watched it on TV.
As an agency of the US federal government, NASA itself has never left the Earth's surface. But six pairs of astronauts landed on the moon between 1969 and 1972, on missions that were part of the Apollo program, which was administered by NASA.
As an agency of the US federal government, NASA itself has never left the Earth's surface. But six pairs of astronauts landed on the moon between 1969 and 1972, on missions that were part of the Apollo program, which was administered by NASA.
That famous year was 1969.