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neil armstrong on moon



january 15 – soviet union launches soyuz 5.
march 3 – apollo program: nasa launches apollo 9 test lunar module.
march 13 – apollo program: apollo 9 returns safely earth after testing lunar module.
may 16 – venera program: venera 5, soviet spaceprobe, lands on venus.
may 17 – venera program: soviet venera 6 begins descend venus , atmosphere sending atmospheric data before being crushed pressure.
may 18 – apollo program: apollo 10 launches.
may 22 – apollo program: apollo 10 s lunar module flies within 15,400 m of moon s surface.
may 26 – apollo program: apollo 10 returns earth after successful eight-day test of components needed upcoming first manned moon landing.
july 20 – apollo program: human race, represented neil armstrong , buzz aldrin, lands on moon. apollo 11 lifted off moon on july 16 , returned safely on july 24.
august 5 – mariner program: mariner 7 makes closest fly-by of mars (3,524 kilometers).
september 20 – comet 67p/churyumov–gerasimenko identified soviet astronomers klim churyumov , svetlana gerasimenko.
november 14 – apollo program: nasa launches apollo 12, second manned mission surface of moon (landed on moon on november 19).
november 19 – apollo program: apollo 12 astronauts charles conrad , alan bean land @ oceanus procellarum ( ocean of storms ) , become third , fourth humans walk on moon.