Apollo 11 moon landing
1969 · Event
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the Moon in Apollo 11's lunar module, then become the first people to walk on its surface.
On these timelines: The Space Race, Master, Spaceflight, Science & Technology, USA
More from The Space Race
- Sputnik launch (1957)
- Yuri Gagarin: first human in space (1961)
- Apollo program announcement (1961)
- Kennedy's 'We choose to go to the Moon' speech (1962)
- 'One small step': the Moonwalk broadcast (1969)
- Apollo 17 leaves the Moon (1972)
- Gemini 6 and 7 rendezvous in orbit (1965)
- Apollo 1 fire (1967)
Around 1969
- Prague Spring (1968)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- The Beatles (1960)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)