Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Fox's 'Your World' recently revisited key astronaut interviews with host Neil Cavuto, coinciding with fascinating new imagery from space. India's Chandrayaan 2 lunar orbiter has provided clear photographic evidence of the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites, over five decades after these historic missions.
These remarkable images, taken in April 2021 by the Chandrayaan 2 orbiter, resurfaced on the space exploration-focused X account 'Curiosity' this week, prompting discussion and debunking moon landing conspiracy theories. The photos distinctly show the lunar modules on the moon's surface.
The Apollo 11 mission, which saw Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the moon, landed on July 20, 1969. While Armstrong and Aldrin explored the lunar surface, astronaut Michael Collins piloted the command module in lunar orbit. The lunar module, nicknamed 'Eagle', eventually returned to lunar orbit to dock with the command module and later landed back on the moon.
Just a few months later, on November 19, 1969, Apollo 12 became the second crewed mission to land on the moon. Astronauts Charles "Pete" Conrad and Alan Bean were the third and fourth humans to walk on the lunar surface.
The Apollo program concluded in December 1972 with astronaut Eugene Cernan's moonwalk, marking the end of an era of human lunar exploration.
Interestingly, the Chandrayaan-2 mission launched on July 22, 2019, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. Two years later, it captured these compelling images of the Apollo landing sites. India further advanced its space exploration efforts with Chandrayaan-3 in 2024, achieving the first successful landing near the moon's south pole.
