: an event in which people land a spacecraft on the moon
the first moon landing
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The Artemis program now targets a human moon landing no earlier than 2028.—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026 Firefly Aerospace grabbed headlines in 2025 when its Blue Ghost lander became the first by a commercial company to stick its moon landing.—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2026 Artemis 2 was originally designed as a precursor to the program's first moon landing on Artemis 3 in 2028, but a recent shakeup has restructured NASA's plans.—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2026 The exterior of the Freedom Express portrays 10 key moments in American history from the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the Apollo 11 moon landing.—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2026 The idea is to gain valuable near-term flight experience before attempting a moon landing with astronauts on board.—William Harwood, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026 The landing problem While Artemis II is designed to serve as a pathfinder mission for a moon landing, whether NASA can pull off an actual lunar touchdown this decade has remained in question.—Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026 The first moon landing with a crew under Artemis is still at least a few years away.—Marcia Dunn, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2026 The 360-degree virtual reality experience opened to the public in April 2019, ahead of the 50th anniversary of the historic moon landing that July.—Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025