What year did the world look on at the first landing on the Moon?

Jul 17, 2009 ... July 1969. It's a little over eight years since the flights of Gagarin and Shepard, followed quickly by President Kennedy's challenge to put ... By 1959, Luna 2 crash-landed on the moon — the first man-made object on the ... moon when we did, because they were so close. Their Lunar Module ... Sep 9, 2009 ... For all the years of rivalry, the viewing room in Russia burst into huge applause as Neil Armstrong took the first steps. The Soviet astronaut ... Moon fact: An automatic landing system was guiding the Apollo 11 astronauts on their final decent to the Moon. But Armstrong noticed it was sending them towards ... Dec 12, 2022 ... It had also put the first man into orbit — Yuri Gagarin in 1961, just the previous year. ... first successful Moon landing, the axe fell on Apollo ... Jul 19, 2019 ... This picture was taken by Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, prior to the moon landing. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin walks on the surface of the ... Oct 14, 2019 ... But if things had gone differently, the Russian might have become the first person to walk on the Moon. ... "When approaching the Moon, I ... Find out what it took and the dangers astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin faced. Today NASA is working on sending humans to ... Jul 23, 2019 ... So, when an Enquirer editor sent me to interview Armstrong, I said OK. ... He did it, not to be nice to me, but because as much as he ... Eliud Kipchoge becomes the first person ever to run a sub-two-hour marathon. #NoHumanIsLimited.