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What is a moon landing?

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Moon landing is the reaching to the surface of a moon in a spacecraft that may be human-driven or robotic.

For humans the Moon is a natural satellite that is in orbit around the Earth, though any natural satellite of any planet is a moon, so to say moon landing is any act of arriving on the surface of a moon.

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