NASA’s mission transcript and timeline document the crew’s lunar landing sequence, including the descent and touchdown on the Moon. This is a primary mission record showing that Apollo 11 reached the lunar surface.

NASA describes Apollo as "the United States human spaceflight program" that "landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969" and notes that there were "6" lunar landing missions with "11" crewed missions in total. It lists all Apollo astronauts who went to the Moon and states: "Neil Armstrong, Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin Jr. ... make history as Armstrong and Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon in July 1969," and later: "The second lunar landing of the Apollo Program was completed by Charles 'Pete' Conrad ... and Alan Bean in November 1969" and continues through the final landing by Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt in December 1972.

Apollo 11 was the first mission to land people on the Moon. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969, while Michael Collins orbited above in the command module. Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon, followed by Buzz Aldrin, during an extravehicular activity that lasted about 2.5 hours.

The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal is a record of the lunar surface operations conducted during the Apollo program from 1969 through 1972. It includes transcripts, commentary, and thousands of photographs documenting the extravehicular activities of the twelve astronauts who walked on the Moon during Apollo missions 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17.

NASA's official Apollo 11 mission timeline records that on "7/20/69" at "102:45:40" (mission elapsed time), the event was "Lunar Module lands in Sea of Tranquility" with the remark "First lunar landing." Later on the same date at "109:24:19" the timeline notes "Armstrong sets foot on Moon" and at "109:32:16" "Aldrin joins Armstrong on lunar surface." The timeline further records that on "7/21/69" at "124:22:01" the "Lunar Module ascent stage lifts off lunar surface" to rendezvous with the command module, and on "7/24/69" the command module "lands in Pacific" concluding the mission.

The Smithsonian summarizes: "On July 20, 1969, a human walked on the Moon for the first time." It explains that Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy and that "From launch to landing, Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins were on a three day journey to the Moon." For July 20, 1969 at 20:17 UTC it notes "The Eagle Has Landed! The lunar module touched down on the surface on the Moon." It then records that at 2:51 UTC on July 21, 1969, "Neil Armstrong begins his descent from the lunar module and takes humankind’s first steps on the Moon, followed by Buzz Aldrin." The timeline continues through lunar surface experiments, ascent from the Moon, rendezvous with Michael Collins in orbit, departure from lunar orbit, and "Splashdown! The astronauts returned to Earth" on July 24, 1969.

The U.S. Congressional Record entry dated July 21, 1969 contains contemporaneous statements about Apollo 11. One statement notes that "yesterday, July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin landed on the Moon" and that "Commander Armstrong became the first man to set foot upon the lunar surface." Another member of Congress comments that "this historic flight of Apollo 11 has carried man farther into space than ever before and successfully achieved a manned lunar landing and return." These remarks were entered into the official record the day after the lunar surface EVA while Apollo 11 was still in space.

The Apollo 11, 14, and 15 missions placed arrays of corner-cube reflectors on the lunar surface for use in lunar laser ranging experiments. Laser pulses sent from Earth observatories are reflected by these retroreflectors and returned to Earth, allowing precise measurement of the Earth–Moon distance. The continuing detection of returns from these Apollo reflectors provides ongoing evidence that human-deployed instruments remain on the Moon.

NASA’s National Space Science Data Center overview of Apollo lunar missions states that "Six of the missions (Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17) achieved successful landings on the Moon" and that they "returned a wealth of scientific data and almost 400 kilograms of lunar samples." It notes that each of these landing missions carried a crew of three astronauts and that two of them conducted extravehicular activities on the lunar surface while the third remained in lunar orbit.

Early analyses of rocks and soil returned by the Apollo 11 astronauts demonstrate that the samples are of lunar origin. The material shows evidence of long exposure to the solar wind and cosmic rays and differs markedly from terrestrial rocks in volatile content and isotopic composition. These findings confirm that the Apollo 11 mission returned genuine Moon material collected by astronauts from the lunar surface.

The Moon landings were not a hoax. Apollo 11 did happen, and humans really did set foot on the Moon. There is extensive evidence: images and footage from the missions, 382 kilograms of lunar rock brought back to Earth, experiments and reflectors still on the lunar surface, and independent tracking of Apollo spacecraft by observatories around the world.

ABC reports that the Soviet Luna 15 probe was in lunar orbit during Apollo 11 and that Mission Control informed the Apollo crew of the Soviet craft while they were en route to the Moon. The article shows Soviet lunar activity occurring alongside Apollo 11, consistent with independent observation of the era’s lunar missions.

The article says Roscosmos chief Yury Borisov confirmed that Apollo-era soil samples were genuine and that the Russian Academy of Sciences said the Apollo samples were authentically lunar. It also reports Prokopyev saying the Moon landings were completely confirmed and proven.

The Soviet Union tracked Apollo missions with its own ground stations and did not publicly dispute that Apollo 11 reached the Moon; Soviet officials monitored the missions in real time. This is consistent with later accounts that Soviet specialists and cosmonauts recognized the landings as real.