On the sea of tranquility, one of the darker patches just off cetre of the moon as we look at it. They had to land on the side facing us so that they could transmit sound and pictures clearly.
They were just not built to do it... too heavy, no legs, etc. Command Modules do not land on the moon. The command module is the main capsule for the Apollo program. The lunar module of Apollo 11 however did land on the moon on the 21st of July 1969.
Apollo 13 was the spacecraft that had an oxygen tank explosion, not the lunar module that landed on the moon. The lunar module that landed on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission was called the Eagle, piloted by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
they landed on the moon in the sea of tranquility
By using the Descent Stage engine on the Lunar module.
Apollo 13 did not land on the moon. They had an explosion in the Service Module which forced them to abort the mission and return home.
Michael Collins was the astronaut in the Apollo 11 mission who did not get to land on the moon. He remained in the command module orbiting the moon while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their historic landing.
The Lunar Module was not a model. The first to land on the moon was Apollo 11's "Eagle".
The Apollo 11 lunar module , The Eagle landed on the moon on 20/7/1969.
The Apollo 11 lunar module The Eagle landed on the moon on 20/7/1969.
The Saturn V rocket did not land on the moon itself, but it was the launch vehicle that carried the Apollo spacecraft to the moon. The Apollo spacecraft then separated from the Saturn V rocket and landed on the moon during the Apollo missions. The first successful manned moon landing was Apollo 11 in 1969.
Apollo 1 was a mission aimed at orbiting the Earth and testing the Command and Service Module. It was not intended to land on the moon. The Apollo program's goal was to land astronauts on the moon and bring them safely back to Earth.
The Apollo 11 Lunar Module was named Eagle.