The Road to the Moon
From the first rockets to the last crewed landing.
1957
1957 · History
The Vanguard TV-3 Launch Fails
December 6, 19571958
1958 · History
Before Mercury Had a Name: NASA’s Human Spaceflight Decision
October 7, 19581961
1961 · History
Enos Orbits Earth on Mercury-Atlas 5
November 29, 19611964
1964 · History
Mariner 3 Launches Toward Mars but Loses Power After Its Shroud Fails
November 5, 19641964
1964 · History
Mariner 4 Launches Toward Mars
November 28, 19641965
1965 · History
Gemini 7 Launches for a Long Stay in Orbit
December 4, 19651965
1965 · History
Gemini 6A and Gemini 7 Rendezvous in Orbit
December 15, 19651966
1966 · History
Gemini 12 Launches the Final Gemini Mission
November 11, 19661967
1967 · History
Why No Nation Can Claim the Moon: The Outer Space Treaty
October 10, 19671967
1967 · History
Surveyor 6 Launches Toward the Moon
November 7, 19671967
1967 · History
The First Saturn V Launches on Apollo 4
November 9, 1967
1968 · History
Before the Moon Landing: Apollo 7 Takes Flight
October 11, 1968
1968 · History
Apollo 7 Broadcasts Live Television From Earth Orbit
October 14, 19681968
1968 · History
Apollo 8 Launches Toward the Moon
December 21, 19681968
1968 · History
Apollo 8 Enters Lunar Orbit
December 24, 19681969
1969 · History
Apollo 12 Launches Through a Storm
November 14, 19691969
1969 · History
Apollo 12 Lands on the Moon
November 19, 19691970
1970 · History
Lunokhod 1 Begins Exploring the Moon
November 17, 19701972
1972 · History
Apollo 17 Launches the Final Crewed Lunar Landing Mission
December 7, 19721972
1972 · History
Apollo 17 Lands at Taurus–Littrow
December 11, 19721972
1972 · History
Apollo 17 Returns to Earth
December 19, 1972
1973 · Science
Skylab 3 Returns After Fifty Nine Days in Space
September 25, 19731973
1973 · History
Skylab 4 Launches for the Final Skylab Expedition
November 16, 1973
2007 · History
Chang'e 1 Enters Lunar Orbit, China's First Lunar Probe
November 5, 20071846
1846 · Science
William Lassell discovers Neptune’s moon Triton
October 10, 18461959
1959 · History
Luna 1 passes near the Moon
January 4, 19591964
1964 · History
Ranger 7 transmits close views of the Moon
July 31, 19641966
1966 · History
Luna 9 lands intact on the Moon
February 3, 19661966
1966 · History
Gemini 8 performs the first orbital docking
March 16, 19661968
1968 · History
Surveyor 7 leaves for the lunar highlands
January 7, 19681971
1971 · History
Apollo 15 astronauts drive a rover on the Moon
July 31, 19711996
1996 · Science
Mars Global Surveyor Launches to Map a Planet
November 7, 19962019
2019 · History
Chang’e 4 lands on the Moon’s far side
January 3, 20192023
2023 · History