Richard Nixon was the President of the US when astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped from the lunar lander Eagle for the first landing on the moon. The mission was Apollo 11, and the landing occured on 20 July, 1969.
All moon landings happened during Nixon days. Richard Nixon: president of USA from January 20, 1969 to August 9, 1974 First moon landing: July, 1969 Last moon landing: December, 1972
Richard Nixon was the President of the United States in 1969, the year humans first landed on the moon.
The President when the first person set foot on the moon was Richard Nixon. The Apollo 11 mission successfully landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. Nixon was in office from January 1969 to August 1974.
President Richard Nixon was in office when NASA's Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans to land on the moon on July 20, 1969.
Richard Nixon was the President of the United States during the Apollo moon missions.
In June, 1963, when Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space, the President of the United States was John F. Kennedy (served 1961-1963). In 1983, when Sally Ride became the first American woman to travel into space (third woman overall), the President of the United States was Ronald Reagan (served 1981-1989).
John F. Kennedy started the program to send men to the moon, but died in 1963. After his death, Richard Nixon continued to fund John Fitzgerald Kennedy's space program and in 1969, while Richard M. Nixon was president, the first men landed on the moon.
The first president to walk on the moon was Richard Nixon. He was not an astronaut, but he did speak to the Apollo 11 crew while they were on the moon in 1969.
President Richard Nixon was in office when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in 1969.
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No president has ever been on the moon. Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, was there for about 2.5 hours of moon walking and about 5 hours in the lunar module.