who was the first person landed on moon?
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
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neil armstrong \nkool guy
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At 2:56AM UTC on July 21, 1969, six and a half hours after landing, Armstrong made his descent to the Moon surface and took his famous "one giant leap for mankind"\n\nUTC stands for Coordinated Universal Time. Also known as Greenwich Mean Time.
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Armstrong, Neil Alden (1930- ), one of the first civilian United States astronauts and the first human to set foot on the moon. Armstrong was the commander of the first Apollo program mission to land on the moon—Apollo 11—in July 1969. He also flew aboard a Gemini program mission in 1966 and has been a U.S. Navy combat pilot, test pilot, professor, businessman, and presidential adviser. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and numerous international awards for his service on Apollo 11.\n\nArmstrong was born in Wapokoneta, Ohio. When he was 16 years old he began flying as a student pilot. He earned a navy scholarship and began attending Purdue University in 1947. In 1950 Armstrong began active duty with the navy for the Korean War. He flew fighter planes in Korea until 1952, when he returned to Purdue. Armstrong earned his B.S. degree in aeronautical engineering in 1955.\n\nArmstrong joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) at the Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1955, then transferred later that same year to the NACA Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California. He was a test pilot for many of the high-performance aircraft used to experiment with ideas for spacecraft. Armstrong left the Flight Research Center in 1962 to join the second group of U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut trainees.\n\nThis second group of trainees included the first two civilian astronaut candidates, Armstrong and test pilot Elliot See. (See unfortunately died in a plane crash while training to be commander of Gemini 9.) After completing initial training at NASA, Armstrong served as a backup to the Gemini 5 crew, then became the command pilot of Gemini 8; David R. Scott also flew aboard Gemini 8. The mission launched March 16, 1966, with the primary objective of docking with another spacecraft. Gemini 8 rendezvoused with a used segment of a launch vehicle called an Agena booster 298 km (185 mi) above the earth, and Armstrong successfully docked the two craft together 6 hours and 34 minutes into the mission. Roughly 30 minutes later, the paired spacecraft began to rotate unexpectedly and without any command from the astronauts. The rotation eventually reached about 60 revolutions per minute. The astronauts and the ground crew reacted rapidly and diagnosed a short circuit in the thruster rocket that controlled Gemini 8’s orientation. Armstrong and Scott had to use roughly 75 percent of Gemini 8's fuel to stabilize the craft, forcing the mission to end early with an emergency reentry during the seventh orbit.\n\nArmstrong’s next assignments were on the backup crews for the Gemini 11 and Apollo 8 missions. In 1968 he was assigned the position of commander for the Apollo 11 mission, joined by Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Allen Collins.\n\nThe mission objective for Apollo 11 was simply to take humans to the moon and return safely. Both NASA and the crew recognized the mission’s significance for all humans, and reflected this in several ways. Apollo 11’s mission patch is the only mission patch in NASA history to have no individual names on it. A plaque mounted on one leg of the lunar module, the part of the Apollo spacecraft that landed on the moon, bears a map of the earth, the signatures of President Richard Nixon and all three astronauts, and the inscription, “Here men from the planet earth first set foot upon the moon July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.”\n\nApollo 11 launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 16, 1969, and arrived in orbit around the moon on July 20. On the 14th orbit of the moon, following eight hours of preparation for the landing, the lunar module Eagle undocked from the command module Columbia and descended toward the Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquility). Armstrong began actively piloting the Eagle when the craft was about 1500 m (about 5000 ft) above the moon and 6 km (4 mi) east of the landing
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6 manned missions landed on the moon (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17). Each Apollo mission has 3 astronauts, 2 of which descended to the lunar surface and walked around. That makes a total of 12 people (all Americans) who have ever walked on the moon.\n\nThe most notable NASA tragedies would be Apollo 1 (fire during a test, 3 people killed), the Challenger explosion (space shuttle exploded during liftoff), and the Columbia disaster (orbiter broke up on re-entry).
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The first U.S. manned space mission:\n\nMission: Mercury 3 (first manned flight)\nSpacecraft Name: Freedom 7\nOccupant: Alan Shepard\nDate: 5/5/1961
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Astronaut Eugene Cernan was the last man on the moon\n\nSorry - I misunderstood your question. Here's my revised answer....\n\nThe last US Astronaut to step on the moon was Harrison H. Schmitt.  He was the 12th and the last.
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Here's a selection of first person in space from various nations around the world.\n\nYuri Gagarin - Soviet Union\nAlan Shepard - United States\nVladimír Remek - Czechoslovakia\nBertalan Farkas - Hungary\nJean-Loup Chrétien- France\nRakesh Sharma - India\nSalman al-Saud - Saudia Arabia\nRodolfo Neri Vela - Mexico\nToyohiro Akiyama - Japan\nHelen Sharman - United Kingdom\nIlan Ramon - Israel\nYáng Lìwěi - China
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Dr. Jack Schm itt and Eugene Cernan left the moon at 21:33 UTC on December 17, 1972. They were the last two astronauts to visit the lunar surface. Dr. Schm itt was the first scientist-astronaut to land on the Moon, and is a geologist.\n \n\nCernan was actually the last man to step off of the Moon. From the NASA journal:\n"Cernan: Bob, this is Gene, and I'm on the surface; and, as I take man's last step from the surface, back home for some time to come - but we believe not too long into the future - I'd like to just (say) what I believe history will record. That America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. And, as we leave the Moon at Taurus- Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. "Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17.""\n\nHere is the NASA lunar surface journal for the Apollo 17 mission:\nhttp://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a17/a17.html\n\nGene Cernan wrote a book about the experience titled "The Last Man on the Moon":\nhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312199066/qid=1127812744/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-3854888-7269644?n=507846%7CThe&s=books&v=glance
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One stayed in orbit, the others landed. Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the Moon, Collins orbited. On their return to Earth they were heroes.
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Yes, the US landed on the moon in 1969!
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The Russians were the first to put a satellite into space (Sputnik 1).  The Americans were the second to put a satellite into space a year later in 1958 (Explorer 1).
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The First satellite in Space, Sputnik.\nThe Moon Landing. First man on the moon.\nVoyager first satellite to exit solar system, Voyager.
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126 in space 12 have walked on the moon
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Probably Kennedy, because he got the space race started and made it so that we can say that we landed on the moon.\n\nJust to give a little factual info, they have done studies and the open space for more figures on Mt. Rushmore are unusable as they are too unstable and would break off.
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John Glenn, Jr., Astronaut / U.S. Senator \n\nBorn: 18 July 1921 \nBirthplace: Cambridge, Ohio \nBest Known As: The first American to orbit Earth
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The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It has no formal English name other than "the Moon", although it is occasionally called Luna (Latin: moon), or Selene (Greek: moon), to distinguish it from the generic term "moon" (referring to any of the various natural satellites of other planets). Its symbol is a crescent (). The related adjective for the Moon is lunar (again from the Latin root), but this is not found in combination, the combining forms seleno-/-selene (again from the Greek) and -cynthion (from the Lunar deity Cynthia) being used in terms relating to the Moon in various other contexts (e.g. aposelene, selenocentric, pericynthion, etc.).\n\nThe average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,401 kilometres (238,857 mi). The Moon's diameter is 3,476 kilometres (2,160 mi). Reflected sunlight from the Moon's surface reaches Earth in approximately 1.3 seconds (at the speed of light). The Moon is the Solar System's fifth largest moon, both by diameter and mass, ranking behind Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, and Io.\n\nThe Soviet Union's (USSR) Luna program was the first to reach the Moon with unmanned vehicles, or space probes: The first man-made object to escape Earth's gravity and pass near the Moon was Luna 1 in 1959. The first man-made object to impact the lunar surface was Luna 2, also in 1959. The first photographs of the normally occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3 in the same year. The first spacecraft to perform a successful lunar soft landing was Luna 9 in 1966. The first (unmanned) vehicle to orbit the Moon was Luna 10 in 1966.\n\nThe United States' Apollo program achieved the first (and only) manned missions to the Moon: The first manned mission to orbit the Moon was Apollo 8 in 1968, and the first people to land and walk on the Moon came aboard Apollo 11 in 1969. The unsuccessful Soviet manned Moon project was abandoned in 1974. The Moon is the only celestial body other than the Earth upon which humans have set foot.\n\nThe two sides of the Moon\nThe Moon is in synchronous rotation, meaning that it keeps nearly the same face turned toward Earth at all times. Small variations resulting from the finite eccentricity of the lunar orbit, termed optical librations, allow up to about 59% of the lunar surface to be visible from Earth. The side of the Moon that faces Earth is called the near side, and the opposite side is called the far side. The far side should not be confused with the dark side, as the unilluminated hemisphere only corresponds to the far side during full moon. In fact, the far side receives (on average) slightly more sunlight than the near side due to lunar eclipse. Spacecraft are cut off from direct radio communication with Earth when behind the Moon due to line-of-sight propagation. One distinguishing feature of the far side is its almost complete lack of maria (singular: mare), which are the dark albedo features.\n\nOrbit and relationship to Earth\n \nA scale model of Earth and the MoonMain articles: The Moon's orbit and Earth and Moon\nSee also: Libration \nThe Moon makes a complete orbit about the Earth approximately once every 27.3 days. It is at present in its 4th quarter, illuminated by ca. -155% . Unlike most satellites of other planets, the Moon orbits near the ecliptic and not the Earth's equatorial plane.\n\nThe Earth and Moon have many physical effects upon one another, including the tides. Most of the tidal effects seen on the Earth are caused by the Moon's gravitational pull, with a smaller contribution from the Sun. Tidal effects result in an increase of the mean Earth-Moon distance, over long periods of time, of about 4 meters per century. As a result of the conservation of angular momentum, the increasing semimajor axis of the Moon is accompanied by a gradual slowing of the Earth's rotation.\n\nThe Earth-Moon system may be considered to be a double planet rather than a planet-moon system.[3] This is due