• Key Information

  • Landing on the Moon

  • Mission
    Landing on the Moon
  • Rocket Stages
    1. To Orbit
    2. To the Moon and back
    3. Moon Lander
    4. Return Pod
  • Learning Point
  • To land a rocket on a moon, you need to point the rocket away from the direction it is flying to slow down and land safely. When facing the direction of travel in your orbit, it is called 'prograde', when facing away it is 'retrograde'.
  • Project
  • Design your own moon lander.
  • Location
  • Rocket Route
    The route of the final landing stage
  • Fun Facts
  • When landing on the moon, Neil Armstrong had to change where they were going to land as the ground was too rocky.
  • The gravity of the moons in our solar system is less than that of Earth, which means spaceships landing on them need a lot less fuel.