Neil Armstrong was the commander of the Apollo 11 mission that landed on the moon back on the 21st of July 1969.
That would be Alan B. Shepard, who was also the first American in space.
There has never been a space shuttle to land on the moon. The only manned vehicle to visit the moon is the Lunar Lander. The first one to land on the moon was called the 'Eagle.' Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin where on board when that happened.
Well , As he was the first one to land on the moon , I am pretty sure him passion Was space flight :L
to try to beat the soviet union in the space race when john f. Kennedy declared it.
No, Eileen Collins did not land on the moon. She is a retired NASA astronaut who became the first female pilot and first female commander of a Space Shuttle mission, but her missions were to space stations and not to the moon.
Neil Armstrong was the commander of the Apollo 11 mission that landed on the moon back on the 21st of July 1969.
I'm not sure what you are asking but he didn't land first on the moon, he was the first one out of the space craft to set foot on the moon.
Who was the first person to land on the moon at christmas
The crew of Apollo 14 consisted of Alan Shepard (the first US astronaut to reach space), Ed Mitchell, and Stu Roosa. Of them, Shepard and Mitchell walked on the moon while Roosa remained in lunar orbit aboard the CSM. As commander, Shepard was the first to step onto the moon's surface.
The name of the first spacecraft to land on the moon was Apollo 11. It landed on the moon on July 20, 1969.
First spaceman was Yuri Gagarin who discovered space in 1961.
Neil Armstrong was the first person to land on the moon
Several women have been in space but none have gone to the moon yet.
The first machine to land on the moon was the Soviet spacecraft Luna 2, which successfully impacted the moon on September 13, 1959. Luna 2 was an unmanned space probe launched by the Soviet Union as part of their Luna program.
The space shuttle that landed on the moon was called Apollo. The Apollo missions were a series of manned missions conducted by NASA during the 1960s and 1970s, with Apollo 11 being the first to successfully land astronauts on the moon in 1969.
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