Science Exploration Day also referred to as Moon Day and Space Exploration Day is marked every year on 20 July. On this day in 1969 that Neil Armstrong and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon’s surface.
Neil Alden Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin were American astronauts, aeronautical engineers, and fighter pilots. Armstrong was also a university professor. He was born and raised in Wapakoneta, Ohio. Buzz performed three spacewalks as the pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and as the pilot of the Lunar Module Eagle on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, he and mission commander Neil Armstrong were the first two persons to land on the Moon.
On July 20, 1971, National Moon Day was proclaimed to honour the anniversary of man’s first moon landing. The day has grown rapidly in recent years and is celebrated worldwide as International Space Day.
Today is “Moon Day,” therefore let’s find out how old the moon is. The moon, it turns out, has a very old soul. A new analysis of lunar materials brought to Earth by Apollo astronauts reveals that the moon created 4.51 billion years ago, just 60 million years after the solar system itself formed. Isn’t it interesting to learn a little bit about the moon on this particular day?
The distance between the moon and Earth is so vast that it takes a spacecraft around three days to reach the Moon. A spacecraft travels at least 240,000 miles (386,400 kilometres) during that time, which is the distance between Earth and the Moon. The precise distance is determined by the path picked.
