The first human landed on the Moon in 1969 during NASA’s Apollo 11 mission.
Apollo 11 launched from Kennedy Space Center on 16 July 1969 with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the lunar surface in the lunar module Eagle, while Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command module Columbia.
Armstrong stepped onto the Moon on 20 July 1969, followed shortly by Aldrin. The astronauts spent about two and a half hours outside the spacecraft, collecting samples, taking photographs, and deploying scientific instruments. They returned safely to Earth on 24 July. Apollo 11 was the first successful crewed lunar landing, but it was not the final one: NASA’s Apollo program completed six surface landings between 1969 and 1972.