for the trip On the Moon In 1969, the first astronauts from Earth landed on the Moon. They had (1) carefully and knew that their mission (2). doing things that had never been done before. The astronauts wore special heavy boots to (3) them from floating off into space. On the Moon, they had (4) to collect Moon rocks and soil samples before returning to Earth. Those brave people, and others after them, are (5) for much of the knowledge we now have about how the Moon was formed. It is (6) that scientists will continue to learn more about how the galaxy was formed by studying the data brought back from the Moon.