On July 20, 1969 we put people on the moon. They flew there in a rocket made of steel and foil using a computer system about as powerful as you might find in your washing machine these days. It’s perhaps an over-simplification but it happened (unless the conspiracy theories are true and it was all fake).
In the years that followed, several missions were sent to the moon culminating in the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972. Over those few years NASA and the United States landed 12 people on the moon. Then we stopped.
