While they were on the lunar surface, the astronauts used the Lunar Roving Vehicle, or Lunar Rover, only on the final three missions from Apollo 15 on. This extended the distance they could travel from the Lunar Module. See the Web Link to the left for more information.
Neil Armstrong was commander of Apollo 11. The Apollo missions used the Saturn V rocket. It remains, after over 40 years, the most powerful launch system that was brought to operational status.
The name of the NASA mission was Apollo 11, which took place in July, 1969.
The command module was named Intrepid and the LEM was named Eagle. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon, Armstrong's message to Mission Control was (in part) "the Eagle has landed."
the apollo 11 was space craft
The command module was called Columbia.
They used the lunar module.
The launch vehicle used on all the Apollo moon landing missions was the Saturn V
The first lunar landing took place in the sea of tranquility.
They had diapers in case they absolutely had to go while in their spacesuits. Aldrin admits that the first thing he did on the Moon was take a whiz! But while in their LM they used the same disinfectant-coated blue plastic bags that they used in the Apollo main capsule.
The Apollo 11 Moon landing and subsequent moon landings by the Americans have used a cloth flag with an aluminium post and support arm. The support arm suspends the flag horizontally. Since there is no atmosphere on the moon if it didn't the flag would always be seen furled.
The original video tape recording of the first steps on the moon by Apollo 11 astronauts was not physically lost but was accidental erased and recycled by NASA. In 2009, other copies of the footage were used to produce a restored version in time for the 40th anniversary of the moon landing.
The Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle, or LRV.
lunar rover
On the moon they used the 'space buggy', but to get off it they used apollo 11
The "moon buggy" was officially known as the Lunar Rover Vehicle, or LRV. It was often referred to as simply "the rover".
The Saturn V (Saturn five) rocket was used to launch the astronauts into space.The project was named the Apollo missions.Neil Armstrong was on Apollo 11 which was the first mission to actually land on the Moon.
Apollo 15 was the first mission to carry the LRV, or Lunar Rover Vehicle, sometimes nicknamed the Moon Buggy.
The lunar rover was a vehicle that was used for Apollo 15, 16. and 17. They were used to transport the astronauts across the lunar surface. They remain on the moon today.
N.A,S.A used two types of vehicles on the moon, one was hand pulled by the Apollo 14 astronauts, and Apollo15,16, 17 used a solar powered vehicle on the moon.
The Omega watch, Speedmaster, is used by the astronauts of the Apollo 11 during its mission to the moon.
The Lunar Roving Vehicle, or LRV
The Gemini spacecraft carried two astronauts to the moon.
lunar rover