Moon Landings

National Geographic produced a beautiful visualization of the moon landings. Here is a detail showing the Apollo 11 landing 50 years ago along with other landings.

Blue dots are American landings and red Russian. Like many of their graphics the whole thing is dense with information.

I like the timeline in the corner showing the early missions (US missions are blue, Russian red, X marks failed missions-they get fewer as time goes on).

Here are the more recent and planned missions including many more colors for many more nations, including India, The European Space Agency, Israel, China, Japan and South Korea.

The pink and purple colors in the corners show lunar topography on both sides of the moon. The entire graphic and more can be seen here on nationalgeographic.com