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title: "Lunar Module Soft Landing"
year: 1966
country: "United States"
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recapType: "global_event"
startDate: "1966-01-01"
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# Lunar Module Soft Landing

> The Surveyor 1 probe achieved the first soft landing on the Moon, proving a crewed landing was possible and paving the way for Apollo.

## Summary

A lunar module is a lunar lander designed to allow astronauts to travel between a spacecraft in lunar orbit and the lunar surface. As of 2026, the Apollo Lunar Module is the only lunar module to have ever been used in human spaceflight, completing six lunar landings from 1969 to 1972 during the United States' Apollo program.

## Sources

- [Lunar module](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_module) - Wikipedia

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Canonical: https://recap.at/1966/surveyor-1-moon-landing