Aerospace · Recorded milestone
Moon landing
Recorded year1969
Apollo 11 lands humans on the Moon, guided by one of the first integrated-circuit computers.
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- RadarRecorded · 1935requires
- Inertial navigationRecorded · 1953enables
- Integrated circuitRecorded · 1958enables
- Kalman filterRecorded · 1960enables
- Human spaceflightRecorded · 1961enables
- SpacewalkRecorded · 1965enables
Led to
- Digital fly-by-wireRecorded · 1972enables
- Reusable space shuttleRecorded · 1981enables
- Mars roversRecorded · 1997enables
- Water ice found at lunar polesRecorded · 2009enables
- Lunar archive of humanityRecorded · 2019enables
- Crewed flight around the MoonRecorded · 2026enables
- Lunar far-side radio telescopeForecast · ~2028enables
- Crewed lunar returnForecast · ~2029enables
- Far-side science parkForecast · ~2040enables
- Moon's interior mappedForecast · ~2040enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.