President Richard Nixon gave federal government workers the day off to watch the moon landing on television.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

They were more than two-thirds of the way to the moon on a flight path that would take them to a moon landing.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Then,they joined the two spacecraft together again, just as astronauts would do after a moon landing.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

They had to cancel the moon landing and use the moon lander as a lifeboat.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

Many state-based companies helped develop machines and equipment that made the moon landing possible.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

This move had to be successful before any moon landing could be attempted.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

There was great public support for President Kennedy's moon landing goal.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

We will finish the story of the Apollo moon landing program.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

The moon landing was seen as the high point of a U.S.space program fueled by a decade-long space race with the former Soviet Union.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

It was the countdown for Apollo Eleven the space flight that would carry men to the first landing on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Everything worked as planned. Everyone expected the third moon-landing flight, Apollo Thirteen, would go as well as the first two.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Mary Chapin Carpenter describes real events such as Hurricane Katrina, landing on the moon,and protests by religious workers in Burma.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

At the time President Kennedy first spoke about landing humans on the moon, the Soviet space program seemed far ahead.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Its purpose was to bring the United States closer to its goal of landing astronauts on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Gemini's purpose was to bring the United States closer to its goal of landing astronauts on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

Its crew would attempt a move that would be necessary for any landing on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Gemini,it was hoped, would move America closer to its goal of landing astronauts on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

They made several trips from the landing area to study the surface of the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

Apollo flights Five and Six tested the moon-landing module and the Saturn Five rocket.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

After four days, Apollo Twelve was near its landing area on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

Apollo Eleven circled the moon while the crew prepared for the landing.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

They wanted to test the landing module near the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

US astronaut Neil Armstrong made the historic first step on the Moon from Apollo 11's landing craft called the Eagle.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

Apollo 11 made the first-ever landing on the moon;

VOA: standard.2010.04.30