Lunar Landing stories:
California team wins lunar landing contest
Nov 3rd, 2009 - Los Angeles Times
A team of California rocketeers won a $1-million prize in a simulated lunar landing contest backed by NASA, the X Prize Foundation announced Monday. The foundation said that Mojave...
Winner named in lunar lander X Prize contest
Nov 2nd, 2009 - Houston Chronicle
LOS ANGELES — A team of California rocketeers has won a $1 million prize in a simulated lunar landing contest backed by NASA. The X Prize Foundation said Monday that Mojave...
Lunar orbiter photographs Apollo landing sites
Jul 17th, 2009 - CNET
Forty years after the Apollo 11 voyage to the moon, NASA released photographs from the new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft Friday showing five of the six Apollo landing sites...
Lunar Landing videos from YouTube:
5:18Apollo11: Lunar Landing July 20, 1969
Lunar Landing July 20, 1969 4:18 pm EDT
1:35Walter Cronkite And The Lunar Landing (CBS News)
Walter Cronkite reflects on what it was like to be on the air while watching the first man reach the moon. (CBSNews.com)
6:27Apollo 11, The True Story of the Lunar Landing
The real events of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing,from the National Geographic Channel. [Re-edited for Gamma Correction]
1:35Walter Cronkite And The Lunar Landing (CBS News)
Walter Cronkite reflects on what it was like to be on the air while watching the first man reach the moon. (CBSNews.com)
Lunar Landing from WikiPedia:
A moon landing is arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned (robotic) missions. The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission on September 13, 1959. The United States's Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Since the Soviet Union first succeeded in implementing the concept in 1966, this term referred to 18 spacecraft landings on the Moon up to 1976. Nine of these missions returned to Earth bearing samples of Moon rocks. The former Soviet Union, the United States, Japan, Europe, India and China have all achieved hard Moon landings.
The Soviet Union later achieved sample returns via the unmanned Luna 16, Luna 20 and Luna 24 Moon landings. Since this was during the time of the Cold War, the contest to be the first on the Moon was one of the most visible facts of the Space Race.
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