The vessel the 50 some odd years is called a shuttle. That's right. What landed on the moon was a lunar module. And as it became a lifeboat and Apollo 13 mission as you saw the movie, and that really did save their lives. He took over flying that thing as he got to a place where he thought it was okay to settle down because they didn't know what was going to happen. The very first moon landing as you get down so close, there's a switch shuts off the decent engine. They only had several seconds of fuel left for him to fly that.

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