Apollo 11

Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, passed away on August 25, 2012.

The United States' Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon, on 20 July 1969.

Twelve Americans have walked on the moon as part of the Apollo missions between 1969 and 1972.

Most famous Neil Armstrong. You may have heard his name now and then for he was first to step on Moon. Out of all the 12 people who have been on the Moon he was the first. It was exactly July 20th 1969 when he stepped on our most amazing Moon as he said "One small step for man and one giant leap for man kind". Armstrong was 39 years of age when he landed on Moon therefore he got born on August 5th 1930, what makes him now 78 years old.

NASA first landed astronauts on the moon in 1969 as part of the Apollo 11 mission. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon's surface on July 20, 1969.

The rockets required to lift a spacecraft able to make a moon landing off of the earth are very different than the rockets required to lift the Space Shuttle, and even satellites, into Low Earth Orbit.

The technology to rebuild the Saturn V rockets used during the Apollo missions still exists, however, the infrastructure that existed during that time no longer does. We stopped building the rockets, so there was no reason to keep the tooling and construction supplies.

Today, when it's said that we "do not have the ability to go to the moon" it's because the rockets that are currently being built are not designed to go to the moon. When the Constellation program started, the purpose was not to simply recreate the Saturn V and mimic the Apollo program. NASA intended to lift significantly heavier space- and landing-craft, with the ability to carry up to 7 crew members to the moon, and stay there for a week. This was a drastic increase in the weight and technology requirements over the Apollo program. Simply said, the technology that was invented in the mid 60's and used to send three men to the moon and keep two of them alive on the surface for three days no longer applied. We had to reinvent the whole platform, using modern techniques and modern materials. We do have the technology to land on the moon today, but the extreme cost of the project and the limited scientific benefit makes it a project that will likely not be repeated for some time. We may land on Mars before we land on the moon again!

There were six (6) as follows with the first date being the launch date in each instance:

7/16/69 Apollo 11 landed on moon 7/20/69

11/14/69 Apollo 12 landed on moon 11/19/69

1/31/71 Apollo 14 landed on moon 2/5/71

7/26/71 Apollo 15 landed on moon 7/30/71

4/16/72 Apollo 16 landed on moon 4/21/72

12/7/72 Apollo 17 landed on moon 12/11/72

Six.

Apollo 11, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins

Apollo 12, 1969, Charles (Pete) Conrad, , Alan Bean, Richard Francis Gordon

Apollo 14, 1971, Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, Stuart Roosa

Apollo 15, 1971, David Scott, James Irwin, Alfred Worden

Apollo 16, 1972, John Young, Charles Duke, Thomas Mattingly

Apollo 17, 1972, Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, Ronald Evans

we don't know if we'll go to the moon again. Apollo 17 was the last to land on the moon

1. Apollo 7: Low Earth Orbit

2. Apollo 8: Lunar Orbit

3. Apollo 9: Low Earth Orbit

4. Apollo 10: Lunar Orbit

5. Apollo 11: Lunar Landing

6. Apollo 12: Lunar Landing

7. Apollo 13: Lunar flyby (aborted landing)

8. Apollo 14: Lunar Landing

9. Apollo 15: Lunar Landing

10. Apollo 16: Lunar Landing

11. Apollo 17: Lunar Landing

On July 20, 1969 Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon, while Collins orbited in the Command Module.

The United States was the first country to land on the moon with the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the lunar surface.

12 people landed on the moon; they were all from the Apollo programme because America were the only ones who landed on the moon

Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17.

Additional Interesting Information:

Apollo 10 went to the moon and descended the Lunar Module (LM) to several thousand feet short of a landing, but did not touch down. NASA had actually not filled the Ascent Module with enough fuel for them to land, just in case they got the urge to do land, against the flight plan. This was done as a preparatory step for the next mission, Apollo 11, where Neil Armstrong actually executed the first touch down on the moon with only 17 seconds to spare in his fuel tank. Buzz Aldrin was the pilot that accompanied Armstrong on this historic voyage: "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind.'

Apollo 13 suffered an explosion in transit and was forced to abort its landing and luckily returned to the Earth safely. It has been called by NASA as its greatest successful failure. Actually, Apollo 13's explosion was a coil in the oxygen tank that had been crippled 2 years before launch, so on April, 13, 1970, when Jack Swigert flipped the switch to stir the oxygen tanks, the coil caused a spark and exploded the tank and tore apart a section of the service module, as well .

The moon landing was very real, for one simple reason

1. If you have a good enough telescope you can look at the moon and see on the surface Neil Armstrong's footprint, and since there is nothing to blow it away, it will stay there until a meteor smashes on it.

The first manned mission landed on July 20, 1969

" That's one small step for [a] man. One giant leap for mankind"

Story goes Neil stuffed it up first time round and said "Thats one small step for mankind. Once giant leap for..." and quickly did a second quote the correct way.

How ever, a hacker recently recovered the "a".

There have been six manned moon landings between 1969 and 1972 as a part of NASA's Apollo program. These missions successfully landed astronauts on the moon and brought them back safely to Earth.

It was in 1969, which means it was in the seventhdecade.

Three men were the first to go to the "vicinity" of the Moon, on the Apollo 8 mission that orbited the Moon on December 24, 1968. The astronauts were Frank Borman, James Lovell, and Willliam Anders.

After Apollo 10 successfully orbited to test the Lunar Lander in May, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission became the first to take men to the lunar surface.

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the Eagle at the Sea of Tranquility basin on July 20, 1969. Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the Moon, followed by Aldrin. Between 1969 and 1972, five more missions landed on the surface, for a total of 12 men who explored on the lunar surface.

I assume you mean after he got home? Mr. Armstrong pretty much disappeared to a farm in Ohio. He gives very few interviews, which conspiracy theorists take to mean that he (nor anyone else in 1969) got to the moon at all. He has been exploited by many people and prefers to limit his public appearances.

If you are referring to what Armstrong and Aldrin did immediately after the landing, then there were a number of processes to attend to in order to prepare for the moonwalk. The lander also had to be configured in order for a quick take-off if necessary. They also ate a meal.

The three members of the Apollo 13 were: (Commander) James A Lovell, (Lunar module pilot) Fred Haise, and (Command module pilot) John L 'Jack' Swigert. The command module pilot was originally Thomas 'Ken' Mattingly. However he was exposed to German Measles and so was unable to go on the mission. He was replaced by Jack Swigert.

Interestingly, Mattingly never did get German measles, but did play a very important role, along with many others, by working with ground crew to help them devise a plan to bring the crew back safely.

At 'Tranquility Base'. On the Mare Tranquillitatus, or 'Sea of Tranquility.' See link below for a look at the site and those of other Apollo landings with Google Moon.