Google Doodle: Celebrating 40th year of moon landing

moon landing 40yrs doodle

A moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of a planet’s natural satellite, and in this case, refers specifically to landings on the lunar surface of Earth’s 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 September 13, 1959. The United States’s Apollo 11 mission was the first manned spacecraft to land on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

Google now has a Doodle to the moon landing 40 years running the world on YouTube also:

youtube doodle

Don’t forget Google Earth it shows an astronaut :) ….

astronaut on doodle

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One Response to Google Doodle: Celebrating 40th year of moon landing

  1. joan parker July 23, 2009 at 8:41 pm #

    Thanks for posting about this, I would love to read more about this topic.

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