Apollo 11

The year was 1969.

Sunday 20th July, 1969.

No, they were not - the first moon landing left Cape Canaveral in Florida on 16th July, 1969 with the crew of Apollo 11 landing on the moon four days later.

Between July 1969 and December 1972 there were (in total) six manned moon landings made by Apollo 11, Apollo 12, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, Apollo 16 and finally Apollo 17.

Apollo 13 was forced to return to Earth when an explosion in the rocket occurred when the crew were halfway to the moon but fortunately the crew survived and returned to Earth safely.

There is even a movie about the Apollo 13 moon mission so that's evidence the moon landings were not faked.

It took the Apollo 11 three days to reach the moon and another 3 days to return. In all it took them 5 days, 22 hours and 54 minutes.

Apollo 11 made its first lunar landing on 20 July 1969 at the Sea of Tranquility. The first human step on the moon off the craft occurred on 21 July 1969.

There were three Astronauts that were said to have boarded the Apollo 11. The three Astronauts were, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. The third was Michael Collins but he stayed in the Orbiter during this time.

The Apollo 11 mission was launched and completed in July 1969,

after several months in preparation and several years in planning.

It's not really correct to say that it 'happened'.

While on the moon's surface, the spacesuits had drink bladders built into them with straws that reached up into the helmets. The simply turned their head inside the suit, grabbed the straw with their mouths and sucked.

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They collected samples, took pictures, reported back via radio what their impressions were, and placed science packages out to collect data.

Apollo 11 orbited Earth a total of 8 times before it was sent on its trajectory to the Moon. After launch on July 16, 1969, the spacecraft completed these orbits to gather the necessary speed and perform systems checks before executing the translunar injection. This phase was crucial for ensuring the mission's success as it moved towards the Moon.

Apollo 11 blasted of from Cape Kennedy, Florida, on the early morning of July 16,1969.

It was dumb smzrt baby patroits all day

Neil Armstrong, who was the first man to walk on the moon, was of German, Irish and Scottish descent. No native born Irishman has ever walked on the moon. All 12 moonwalkers were born and raised in the United States.

Essentially it was their turn in the rotation. The astronaut office worked on a rotation to ensure each crew spent time as both primary and backup on various missions. When it was time to make a landing attempt, Armstrong's crew was up.

ILC Dover with some help from Playtex.

The Apollo 11 command module, known as Columbia, weighed approximately 12,250 pounds (5,560 kilograms) at launch. This included the weight of the spacecraft itself, along with the necessary equipment and supplies for the mission. The entire Apollo 11 mission, including the Saturn V rocket, had a total launch weight of about 3 million pounds.

The "Space Race" saw a broad set of accomplishments by both the United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was the first country to launch a satellite into space, the first to send and receive data communications from space (Luna 1), the first man-made probe to hit the moon (Luna 2), The first to photograph the moon's far side (Luna 3) the first to put an animal (dog) in space and return it safely back to earth, the first to put a man in space (Yuri Gagarin), the first to put a woman into space (Valentina Tereshkova), the first to send a satellite to the moon and around it, the first soft landing on the moon (Luna 9), the first to send a satellite to Mars and Venus, and the first man to walk in space (Alexi Leonov). The United States lagged behind the Soviet Union in many respects, but only because they took fewer chances. The United States trained it's astronauts to actually fly the vehicle, even in case of emergency. The Soviet Union put an envelope in the cockpit to be opened only in an emergency. The Soviet cosmonauts didn't actually fly their spacecrafts, they were merely passengers. The space race began following World War II when both the United States and the Soviet Union began an intensive search for the men who built and designed the German V-2 rocket that pounded Great Britian. The Soviets captured a few of the men, but the United States was lucky enough to get the top designers. After the Soviets questioned their captives, they sent them to gulags in Siberia. The United States put people like Werner von Braun in charge of building rockets for the US Army. The Space Race continued for about 45 years as a weapon of the Cold War. The purpose of the Space Race was to compare technological superiority of the two countries. It was widely percieved that the country to get to space first would be the superior country. Since the Soviet Union got to space first, both manned and unmanned, an embarrassed United States was forced to turn space from a place of potential military hostility to a place of scientific and human exploration. On 20 April 1961, about one week after Gagarin's flight, American President John F. Kennedy sent a memo to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, asking him to look into the state of America's space program, and into programs that could offer NASA the opportunity to catch up to the Soviets. Johnson responded about one week later, concluding that the United States needed to do much more to reach a position of leadership. Johnson recommended that a piloted moon landing was far enough in the future that it was likely that the United States could achieve it first. On May 25, Kennedy announced his support for the Apollo program and redefined the ultimate goal of the Space Race in an address to a special joint session of Congress: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth." His justification for the Moon Race was both that it was vital to national security and that it would focus the nation's energies in other scientific and social fields. He expressed his reasoning in the famous "We choose the Moon" speech, on September 12, 1962, before a large crowd at Rice University Stadium, in Houston, Texas. Over the next 7 years, many things happened that put the United States in front of the Soviet Union. While the Soviets were busy building a rocket large enough to to go the moon, the United States, which already had a Saturn V waiting, was busy training astronauts and giving them the experience they would need to land on the moon and return safely back to earth. The Gemini program gave mankind its first rendezvous and docking in space. The United States also used to time to perfect the Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) procedures needed in case of a space emergency. Meanwhile most of the Soviet rockets were blowing up on the pad or during launch. The main reason the United States plunged ahead of the Soviets was the death of Sergei Korolev, the Soviet chief rocket designer, who was working on sending a cosmonaut to the moon. His death set the Soviets back about 2 years while they scrambled to finish their moon rocket. The Soviet Union put all its effort into Korolev, who not only designed and built the rockets, but also had to deal with the Politburo to get funding for his projects, while the United States segregated those activities among several people. When Korolev died, it was as if the Soviets lost 6 good men. By landing a man on the moon first, the United States proved to the world that it's technology and free-enterprise system was superior to the communist ways of the Soviet Union. It helped end the Cold War and brought peace and understanding between the two rival super-powers. Today, the United States and Russia (the former Soviet Union) are working peacefully together on the International Space Station.

There was no Apollo 2. Apollo 1 was to have been the first manned Apollo flight, but it caught fire during a routine ground test a month before the scheduled launch. All 3 astronauts inside died.

I think you're asking which astronaut orbited the moon while Armstrong and Aldrin walked below. That man would be Michael Collins, who accompanied Armstrong and Aldrin on Apollo 11.

The first 3 astronauts to visit the moon were Frank Borman, James Lovell and Bill Anders on Apollo 8.There was no lunar module on the Apollo 8 flight. As the only rookie on the flight, Anders held the position of Lunar Module Pilot. His job was basically photographing the lunar surface.It was Anders who shot the famous Earthrise photo during the 4th orbit on Christmas Eve, 1968. The photo was taken with a Hassselblad camera using a 500mm telephoto lens. The earth would have been a tiny dot if he'd used the standard 80mm lens. The 500mm lens was used to shoot closeups of the lunar surface, while the 80mm lens gave lunar geologists a good overall view of the general geology of the area.

Without a Lunar Module, all 3Apollo 8 astronautswere free to photograph possible Apollo landing sites and other sites of various scientific interest. They had trained for 2 years to fly a high earth orbital mission that would simulate a command module'sreturn to earth. Their mission was changed to a lunar orbit after the success of Apollo 7, 2 months before Apollo 8 lifted off for the moon. The sudden change and intense training that followed in those 2 months made it impossible for the astronauts to be properly trained lunar observers. They did however learn the names of the craters and basic formations over which they flew, so they would know what to photograph once they arrived in lunar orbit.

TheCommand Module pilots that followed Apollo 8 to the moon (Apollo 10 through Apollo 17) did the same basic thing. They all followed different paths (orbits) around the moon photographing different portions of it for the scientists and for possible future landing sites.Beginning with the Apollo 15 flight, the Command Module pilot used the same reconnaissance cameras used by the high altitude aircrafts that fly around the earth.Their cameras were stationed outside the vehicle in a section of the Service Module.The Service Module, which provides oxygen, water and electricity to the Command Module sitsjust behind the Command Module. Ithides the heat sheild and must be jettisonned about an hour before splashdown. Because it is jettisonned, an astronaut must perform an Extra Vehicular Activity (spacewalk) to retrieve the film from those cameras.This was done during the return trip back to earth, a few hours after leaving lunar orbit.

The Command Module Pilot (CMP) was also trained in lunar geology. He was not able to pick up rocks from the surface, but he was able to make very important scientific observations while flying 60 miles above the moon. Al Worden,the Apollo 15 CMP, noticed cinder cones in the area of Taurus Littrow. Cinder cones are signs of previous volcanic activity. Worden's report to the scientists back on earth led to Taurus Littrow being selected as the landing site for Apollo 17. During the second EVA, Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, found orange soilnear the rim ofShorty Crater. It was that orange soil that Worden saw from 60 miles above. Orange soil was basically dried magma, proving thatShorty Crater began life asa volcano. Those were the only volcanic rocks returned to earth by the Apollo astronauts.

In addition to photographing and observing, the CMP was also responsible for many atmospheric and lunar magnetic experiments from orbit. For the most part, they were bussier than the 2 men who walked on the moon. In almost all cases, the CMP's lost more weight from lack of eating than the moonwalkers lost from walking on its surface.

There was onlyone Apollo 11 mission. The astronauts aboard Apollo 11 were Neil Armstrong (commander), Buzz Aldrin (lunar module pilot), and Michael Collins (command module pilot). The titles are a bit misleading. The lunar module pilot basic job was tooperate thecomputer during landing. He entered keystrokes into the computer to ask the elevation and relative speed of the lunar module. It was his job togive the commander the information he needed (speed, elevation, fuel, etc.) to land the vehicle so the commander could keep his eyes on the surface below and avoid boulders and craters. The commander did the actual flying (and landing) of the lunar module. He was also in control of the vehicle during launch from Kennedy Space center and the moon. The command module pilot made the turn around maneuver to pick up the lunar module, which was stored in the 3rd stage of the Saturn V during launch.The CMPalso took navigational readings from the stars after achieving earth orbit and enroute to and from the moon.

In march 14 1968