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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 121. Chapters: Apollo program, Lunar Roving Vehicle, Apollo Lunar Module, Trans Lunar Injection, Moon landing, Colonization of the Moon, Constellation program, Orion, List of lunar probes, Falcon 9, Soyuz, Lunar water, N1, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Exploration Systems Architecture Study, Lunar outpost, Vision for Space Exploration, List of Apollo missions, In-situ resource utilization, List of current and future lunar missions, Lunarcrete, Lunar space elevator, Crew Exploration Vehicle, Altair, Prospective Piloted Transport System, Apollo Applications Program, Extraterrestrial real estate, Soyuz 7K-L1, Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, Team FREDNET, Fallen Astronaut, Moon landings in fiction, Moon Museum, Space Exploration Initiative, Luna-Glob, LK Lander, Zond program, Robotic exploration of the Moon, DSE-Alpha, Astrobotic Technology, Project Horizon, Odyssey Moon, MoonLITE, Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, Artemis Project, Soyuz 7K-L3, Moon Society, Lunex Project, Part-Time-Scientists, Space Exploration Vehicle, Ferenc Pavlics, International Lunar Network, Soyuz-V, Lunar Explorers Society, Puli Space Technologies, Soyuz-B, JSC Moon Base, Tranquility Base, Project A119, Lunar government, Lunar sortie, Circumlunar trajectory, Lunar Expeditionary Complex, Human Lunar Return study, Trans-Earth injection, Soyuz-A, Euroluna, Scarab, Lunar Orbital Station, Diviner, Ukrselena, Energia Lunar Expedition, Inflatable module. Excerpt: A moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned (robotic) missions. The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission on 13 September 1959. The United States's Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon on 20 July 1969. There have been six manned landings (between ...