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Apollo moon landingAtlas
Science & Technology · Space & cosmology
Competing accounts of whether NASA Apollo missions landed astronauts on the Moon, or whether landings were staged without crewed lunar surface operations.
Open the caseNASA6
- Documented · Academic accounts describe the Apollo 11 moon landing as a multi-media event that NASA carefully managed.
- Official · Apollo 11 landed the lunar module Eagle on the Moon on 20 July 1969 according to NASA mission records.
- Official · NASA materials identify the Apollo 11 lunar module by the nickname Eagle.
- Official · NASA public commemorative materials present Apollo 11 as a choreographed sequence from lift-off to splash-down that included a crewed lunar surface excursion.
- Official · NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter later imaged Apollo landing sites from lunar orbit.
- Documented · NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio published visualizations depicting the Apollo 11 landing site.
Bill Kaysing1
- Documented · Bill Kaysing published We Never Went to the Moon in 1976, popularizing staged-landing claims.
Buzz Aldrin1
- Documented · Biographical materials identify Buzz Aldrin as an astronaut on Gemini 12 and Apollo 11.
National Air and Space Museum1
- Documented · The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum presents public narratives of the Apollo 11 moon landing and related astronaut biographies.
Neil Armstrong1
- Official · National Archives commemorative materials state that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission.
U.S. National Archives1
- Documented · The U.S. National Archives curates still photographs from the Apollo 11 mission, including images described as showing astronaut Edwin Aldrin near the Lunar Module.
Other1
- Documented · Apollo missions returned lunar rock and soil samples that remain in scientific curation.