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Oreo Moon Landing Cookies Touch Down in Stores (With Stickers!)

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Marshmallow Moon Oreo cookies, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, have touched down on store shelves across the United States.
Marshmallow Moon Oreo cookies, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, have touched down on store shelves across the United States. (Image credit: collectSPACE.com)

Houston, the Oreo moon landing cookies have landed.

A month after being announced by Nabisco, the limited edition "Marshmallow Moon" Oreos — and their bonus collectible moon landing-themed stickers — have begun arriving on store shelves. The cookies come just in time to celebrate the 50 years since NASA's Apollo 11 mission, which saw the first astronauts walk on the moon in July 1969.

"The limited-edition features three fun, moon-landing designs on the cookie with delicious purple marshmallow creme inside. Plus, the cookies come in glow-in-the-dark packaging with anniversary sticker sets on the pack," an Oreo spokesperson said in a statement.

Related: Apollo 11 at 50: A Complete Guide to the Historic Moon Landing Mission 

When first held under a flashlight (for best effect), the pack's "Marshmallow" lettering and the "M" and "N" in "Moon" glow in the dark. The inscription "Moon Landing 50th Anniversary" is also printed in phosphorescent ink.

Three glow-in-the-dark, space-related stickers are attached on the back of each cookie pack, with a total of nine stickers available.

"Stickers adhere best to smooth, flat surfaces like notebooks and laptops," the package reads. "Three different sticker sets across three packs. Collect them all!"

The first set of sticker designs include an illustrated astronaut planting a "50" flag atop an Oreo cookie; a rocket blasting through space, trailing the words "Moon Landing 50 Years"; and a field of stars behind the words "Celebrating 50th Anniversary," where the zero in "50" is represented by the moon. 

Marshmallow Moon Oreo cookie packs come with a set of three moon landing 50th anniversary stickers, with three sets available.  (Image credit: collectSPACE.com)

The second set includes a Marshmallow Moon Oreo with the words "50 Years Moon Landing"; a purple moon with a space shuttle orbiter blasting out of a glass of milk; and an Oreo cookie surrounded by "Celebrating The Moon Landing 50th Anniversary."

The final three stickers include a rocket orbiting an Oreo with "Moon Landing 50 Years"; a design that reads "50th Anniversary Moon Landing"; and an Oreo cookie wrapped by the words "Moon Landing 50th Anniversary."

The cookies inside each pack feature similar designs, including a crescent moon with three stars, an Apollo-like spacesuited astronaut standing by a flag with stars and a planet in the sky, and a space shuttle blasting through a field of stars.

Nabisco (and its parent company, Mondelēz International) has not said how many of the limited edition packs are being made or how long the Marshmallow Moon Oreo cookies will be available in stores.

Click through to collectSPACE to see the Marshmallow Moon Oreo pack glow in the dark. 

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Robert Z. Pearlman
Robert Z. Pearlman
collectSPACE.com Editor, Space.com Contributor

Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of "Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space” published by Smithsonian Books in 2018. He previously developed online content for the National Space Society and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, helped establish the space tourism company Space Adventures and currently serves on the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society, the advisory committee for The Mars Generation and leadership board of For All Moonkind. In 2009, he was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2021, he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.