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For future visitors after Google fixes the bug: at this time, Google gave the same response that you would expect if the query mentioned Earth’s moon instead of Mars. This is also probably true if you ask Google the same question as an “Okay, Google” search. It’s a big info box that says when the moon landing was, shows a photo of an astronaut on the moon, and so on.

Edit: corrected, thanks :)

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Pretty sure you meant the moon. I would guess he first stepped on Earth closer to his birth date (although I'm guessing his first steps were a few months after ;))

> ...if the query mentioned Earth instead of Mars

Did you mean to say "the Moon instead of Mars"?

I tried with "... on Earth" and got the same result as with Mars or Moon.

So looks like the Google result ignores the celestial body in the query.

Regardless of what it ought to say, I see the same effect with the destinations “earth”, “saturn”, “america”, “russia”, “newton”, “silver”, and “lego”, though the date varies from the 16th to the 20th.

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