Transport & space · 1969

Apollo 11 Moon landing

Humans walk on the Moon for the first time.

On 20 July 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the Eagle in the Sea of Tranquility while Michael Collins orbited. The Apollo Guidance Computer was an early large user of integrated circuits. Twelve astronauts walked on the Moon by 1972 and returned 382 kg of samples.

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What it led to 5

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Apollo 11: The Complete DescentApollo Flight Journal · YouTube Restored Apollo 11 Moonwalk - Original NASA EVA Mission Video - Walking on the MoonNASA · YouTube

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Selected milestones in human travel speed Latest: 39.9k km/h (1969) Source: Wikipedia: Horse gait (gallop 40-48 km/h); Wikipedia: List of speed records in rail transport

Objects launched into space Latest: 4.51k per year (2025) Source: Our World in Data