Landing Sites

Landing Sites

Table of Contents

[#Landing Sites Landing Sites]

[#Landing Sites-Description Description]

[#Landing Sites-Additional Information Additional Information]

[#Landing Sites-List of Sites List of Sites]

[#Landing Sites-List of Sites-Apollo 11 Site Apollo 11 Site]

[#Landing Sites-List of Sites-Apollo 12 Site Apollo 12 Site]

[#Landing Sites-List of Sites-Apollo 13 Apollo 13]

[#Landing Sites-List of Sites-Apollo 14 Site Apollo 14 Site]

[#Landing Sites-List of Sites-Apollo 15 Site Apollo 15 Site]

[#Landing Sites-List of Sites-Apollo 16 Site Apollo 16 Site]

[#Landing Sites-List of Sites-Apollo 17 Site Apollo 17 Site]

[#Landing Sites-List of Sites-Luna 2 Luna 2]

[#Landing Sites-List of Sites-Luna 9 Luna 9]

[#Landing Sites-List of Sites-Luna 16 Luna 16]

[#Landing Sites-List of Sites-Surveyor Missions Surveyor Missions]

[#Landing Sites-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]

[#Landing Sites-Bibliography Bibliography]

Description

This page provides links to the-Moon Wiki pages describing the [/Apollo%20program Apollo] land sites and the lunar feature [/Landing%20site%20name names] associated with them, as well as feature names associated with several other lunar landings.
 
 

Additional Information

• There are many web resources related to the [/Apollo%20program Apollo flights], as well as several that provide a graphic orientation as to the exact locations on the Moon at which the landings were made. Three good examples of the latter, which "drill down" from distant to very close-range aerial photos, are:
  • The Landing Site pages in the LPI's Apollo Missions presentation.
  • James R. Zimbelman's Apollo Landing Sites slide show.
  • Exploring the Apollo Landing Sites by Dan Durda.

List of Sites

[/Apollo%2011%20Site Apollo 11 Site]

• [/Apollo%2011%20Site Tranquility Base]
• [/West West]

[/Apollo%2012%20Site Apollo 12 Site]

• [/Bench Bench]
• [/Block Block]
• [/Halo Halo]
• [/Head Head]
• [/Middle%20Crescent Middle Crescent]
• [/Sharp-Apollo Sharp-Apollo]
• [/Snowman Snowman]
• [/Surveyor Surveyor]

Apollo 13

• (intended landing site same as that visited by Apollo 14)

[/Apollo%2014%20Site Apollo 14 Site]

• [/Cone Cone]
• [/Doublet Doublet]
• [/Flank Flank]
• [/Old%20Nameless Old Nameless]
• [/Triplet Triplet]
• [/Weird Weird]

[/Apollo%2015%20Site Apollo 15 Site]

• [/Apennine%20Front Apennine Front]
• [/Bridge Bridge]
• [/Dune Dune]
• [/Earthlight Earthlight]
• [/Elbow Elbow]
• [/Index Index]
• [/Last Last]
• [/North%20Complex North Complex]
• [/Plain Plain]
• [/Rhysling Rhysling]
• [/South%20Cluster South Cluster]
• [/Spur Spur]
• [/St.%20George St. George]
• [/Terrace Terrace]

[/Apollo%2016%20Site Apollo 16 Site]

• [/Baby%20Ray Baby Ray]
• [/Cinco Cinco]
• [/End End]
• [/Flag Flag]
• [/Gator Gator]
• [/Halfway Halfway]
• [/Kiva Kiva]
• [/North%20Ray North Ray]
• [/Palmetto Palmetto]
• [/Plum Plum]
• [/Ravine Ravine]
• [/Smoky%20Mountains Smoky Mountains]
• [/South%20Ray South Ray]
• [/Spook Spook]
• [/Spot Spot]
• [/Stone%20Mountain Stone Mountain]
• [/Stubby Stubby]
• [/Trap Trap]
• [/Wreck Wreck]

[/Apollo%2017%20Site Apollo 17 Site]

• [/Bear%20Mountain Bear Mountain]
• [/Bowen-Apollo Bowen-Apollo]
• [/Bront%C3%AB Bronté]
• [/Camelot Camelot]
• [/Cochise Cochise]
• [/Emory Emory]
• [/Falcon Falcon]
• [/Family%20Mountain Family Mountain]
• [/Hess-Apollo Hess-Apollo]
• [/Horatio Horatio]
• [/Lara Lara]
• [/Light%20Mantle Light Mantle]
• [/Mackin Mackin-Apollo]
• [/Nansen-Apollo Nansen-Apollo]
• [/North%20Massif North Massif]
• [/Powell Powell]
• [/Scarp Scarp]
• [/Sculptured%20Hills Sculptured Hills]
• [/Shakespeare Shakespeare]
• [/Sherlock Sherlock]
• [/Shorty Shorty]
• [/South%20Massif South Massif]
• [/Steno-Apollo Steno-Apollo]
• [/Taurus-Littrow%20Valley Taurus-Littrow Valley]
• [/Tortilla%20Flat Tortilla Flat]
• [/Trident Trident]
• [/Van%20Serg Van Serg]
• [/Victory Victory]
• [/Wessex%20Cleft Wessex Cleft]

Luna 2

• [/Sinus%20Lunicus Sinus Lunicus]

Luna 9

• [/Planitia%20Descensus Planitia Descensus]

Luna 16

• [/Sinus%20Successus Sinus Successus]

Chang'e-3 (touch down: december the 14th, 2013)
Near craterlet Laplace FA, south of Montes Recti and the (quite easy to observe) crater Laplace F.

Surveyor Missions

There were seven Surveyor missions; five were successful. Surveyors 2 and 4 failed. Each consisted of a single unmanned spacecraft designed and built by Hughes Aircraft Company.
 

• Surveyor 1 - Launched May 30, 1966; landed on [/Oceanus%20Procellarum Oceanus Procellarum], June 2, 1966
• Surveyor 2 - Launched September 20, 1966; crashed near [/Copernicus Copernicus crater], September 23, 1966
• Surveyor 3 - Launched April 17, 1967; landed on [/Oceanus%20Procellarum Oceanus Procellarum], April 20, 1967
• Surveyor 4 - Launched July 14, 1967; crashed on [/Sinus%20Medii Sinus Medii], July 17, 1967
• Surveyor 5 - Launched September 3, 1967; landed on [/Mare%20Tranquillitatis Mare Tranquillitatis], September 11, 1967
• Surveyor 6 - Launched November 7, 1967; landed on [/Sinus%20Medii Sinus Medii], November 10, 1967
• Surveyor 7 - Launched January 7, 1968; landed near [/Tycho Tycho crater], January 10, 1968

Surveyor 6 was the first spacecraft to lift off from the Moon's surface, and [/Apollo%2012%20site Apollo 12] landed within walking distance of the Surveyor 3 landing site.

LPOD Articles

Bibliography

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