Neil Armstrong takes the first lunar step
Date in UTC
Armstrong stepped onto the Moon at about 02:56 UTC.
- Type
- human spaceflight
- Category
- human spaceflight
- Organization
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Participants
- Neil Armstrong
- Destination
- moon
- Target body
- Moon
- Country
- US
Context and qualifications
July 20 in US time zones.
Sources and attribution
- NASA — mission history (opens in a new tab) — Factual summary; source attribution retained.