moon landing

noun

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

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But if SpaceX can deliver a lunar lander in time to make NASA’s moon landing ambitions a reality, the upsides are immense. Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 12 June 2026 If all goes well, the mission targeted for 2027 would set the stage for a historic moon landing in 2028 – the first since NASA's iconic Apollo era ended half-a-century ago. Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 9 June 2026 By that point, one or both companies will have had to complete a successful unpiloted moon landing. William Harwood, CBS News, 9 June 2026 If that happens, whichever lander launches with Artemis 3 will very likely be the one that delivers astronauts to the lunar surface for the program's first moon landing on Artemis 4, which NASA is hoping to launch in 2028. Josh Dinner, Space.com, 9 June 2026 The firm is also building a Starship HLS cabin at its Starbase site in Texas to further test its systems on Earth before a moon landing. Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 9 June 2026 While SpaceX and Blue Origin engineers work against the clock to prepare their respective spacecraft for the first moon landing since 1972, scores of scientists are addressing the myriad technological challenges future space explorers will face on long-duration missions to the moon and beyond. Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 2 June 2026 The attraction will throw Moon Fest, tied to the 57th anniversary of Apollo 11’s moon landing, on July 17-19. Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 June 2026 The conspiracy theories — which claim NASA faked the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969, and subsequent missions to win the Space Race, often alleging the events were filmed in a studio — have persisted for decades. Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026

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“Moon landing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moon%20landing. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.

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