Lunar landing

Apollo 11 Lunar Module `Eagle` (Plastic model) Other picture 1

For now, anyway.

Here are four separate ways you can prove it, even 50 years after-the-fact.

Japan has achieved a major milestone in its space exploration program with the successful landing of a lunar lander on the moon. The Japanese space agency, JAXA, confirmed the landing and released images of the lander touching down on the moon's surface. The lunar lander, named Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), has been specifically designed to study the moon's topography and gather data on its composition. Equipped with a high-resolution camera and a laser altimeter, the lander…

It's 50 years since the first ever manned landing on the Moon - what was involved?

Chandrayaan-3 is the third mission in the Chandrayaan programme, a series of lunar-exploration missions developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Chandrayaan-3 was launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on 14 July 2023. The spacecraft entered lunar orbit on 5 August, and the lander touched down near the lunar south polar regionon 23 August, making India the fourth country to successfully land on the Moon, and the first to do so near the region of the lunar south pole.

India aims for 1st landing near moon’s south pole. The moon’s south pole has never been explored from the ground, but India’s new Chandrayaan-2 mission will attempt a 1st-ever landing there, with a rover, this September, 2019. Above: Chandrayaan-2 infographic

Japan's space agency, JAXA, has achieved a major milestone in its space exploration program with the successful landing of a small lunar lander on the moon. The lander, named Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), touched down on the moon's surface in the southwestern region known as the Mare Nubium. Equipped with a high-resolution camera and a laser altimeter, SLIM is designed to study the moon's topography and gather data on its composition. The landing site was carefully chosen for…

Low periapsis Narrow Angle Camera image of the Apollo 17 Landing Site. Image is 150 meters wide, Sun from the left, north towards top [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].