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moon landing

noun

: an event in which people land a spacecraft on the moon
the first moon landing

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In 1969, the year of the historic moon landing, The Wadleigh Way adopted a space travel theme for its yearbook, as did many schools nationwide, but students at this Harlem school weren’t just interested in celebrating NASA’s accomplishments. Literary Hub, 25 Nov. 2025 Formed in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin has a NASA contract for the third moon landing by astronauts under the Artemis program. Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 13 Nov. 2025 On Tuesday, the Grammy winner returned for round two of Vanity Fair’s lie detector test interview, a year after the series exposed her for doubting the 1969 moon landing. Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Nov. 2025 What was the Apollo 11 moon landing? Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025 In 2022, Reuters published a report addressing claims circling on social media that the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing was faked. Giana Levy, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025 The list of debunks goes on and on and on; moon landing conspiracies, however, have remained persistently popular among some, even inspiring last year’s Fly Me to the Moon starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum. Adam Carlson, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025 During the last episode of Hulu’s The Kardashians, Kim Kardashian endorsed the conspiracy theory that the 1969 moon landing was faked. Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025 Next came the Biden administration, which maintained support for Artemis but in 2021 decided that SpaceX’s still-developing Starship would be its first moon landing vehicle, citing cost savings over developing its own NASA lander. Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Moon landing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moon%20landing. Accessed 28 Nov. 2025.

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