International Moon Day 2023: 20 July

International Moon Day 2023: 20 July

Category : Important Days Published on: July 19 2023

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International Moon Day is celebrated every year on July 20th to commemorate the anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s landing on the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission and to promote international cooperation in space exploration.
American astronauts Neil Armstrong, and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin became the first humans in history to land on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
The grand Apollo 11 mission took place eight years after the national goal announcement by President John F. Kennedy to send a man to the moon by the end of the 1960s.
The International Moon Day 2023 will be an annual event, held for the general public celebrated across the planet, in cooperation with UNOOSA.
International Moon Day (IMD) was declared on 9 December 2021 by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in Resolution A/RES/76/76, building upon the recommendation of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.
The theme of International Moon Day 2023 is “Lunar Exploration Coordination & Sustainability.”

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