How did Neil Armstrong get off the moon?

Answer 1

The fuel was critically low in the Lunar Module, but there was enough to leave. When the time came, the astronauts detached the top of the module from the bottom, and the bottom served as a launch pad.

Answer 2

The lunar module was divided into two stages each with it's own engine. The ascent stage used a rocket engine to lift the astronauts from the surface. The lower part was left behind on the moon.

Answer 3

At the end of the Apollo missions, only a small portion of the original vehicle launched returned to Earth. This portion was the capsule, which carried all three astronauts. The capsule fell through Earth's atmosphere and, at the appropriate time, slowed its descent with parachutes and fell into an ocean. The capsule and the astronauts it carried were then retrieved with helicopters.

Answer 4

They didn't leave all of the lander behind. The LEM (Lunar excursion module) was made in two parts - (1) the upper part which housed the astronauts, all the control mechanisms, life support etc and a small ascent rocket motor, and (2) the lower part which housed fuel, other lunar experimental equipment designed to be left on the surface, the legs to support the LEM and the descent rocket motor. The whole LEM landed on the moon using the descent rocket motor. When the astronauts left the surface, the LEM split in two so that only the upper stage housing the astronauts and the moon rock they collected, using the ascent rocket motor, left the surface, by using the lower stage (housing the descent rocket etc) as a launchpad.

Answer 5

In a sense, there were two spaceships as you call them. One landed on the Moon and the other remained in orbit around it (they were obviously part of the original single spaceship that was sent from Earth. The reason they remined on the Moon is the Moon's gravity held them there. OK, you might say the Moon's gravity is lass than that of the Earth, so why did they not simply fall back to Earth. Well, they were very much closer to the Moon so its gravity had a much greater effect.

Answer 6

The final three Apollo missions to the Moon - Apollo 15, 16 & 17 - each carried a foldaway electrically-powered "Moon car", developed by Boeing, which the astronauts used to explore a much greater area than on previous missions.

The vehicle was folded up and fixed to the outside of the lower stage of the Lunar Module. The astronauts deployed it at the start of their first EVA.

The three rovers were left behind after mission.

Answer 7

They used a extremely powerful rocket named Apollo 11 to get Neil Armstrong to take the first steps on the moon