Apollo Moon Missions

Rockets are used to get to the moon because they provide the necessary thrust to escape Earth's gravity and enter into lunar orbit. They carry the spacecraft and its payload, including astronauts, to the moon. Rockets also provide the propulsion needed to perform maneuvers such as entering lunar orbit and landing on the moon's surface.

Link 1 is a picture of the LRV, folded up, ready to be raised into its slot in the LM Descent Stage.

Link 2 shows the LRV nearly retracted in its LM housing.

Link 3 and 4 both show a fully installed and stowed LRV

The spacecraft's electrical power came from storage batteries (also called fuel cells), carried onboard. They generated a maximum of about 2300 watts. The fuel to launch the spacecraft was liquid oxygen (with kerosene, and liquid hydrogen for the upper stages), with nitrogen tetroxide to steer, adjust and make course corrections.

The two main types of terrain on the Moon are highlands and maria. Highlands are rugged, mountainous areas with a light-colored surface, while maria are large, dark plains believed to be ancient volcanic basalt flows.

The space program before the Apollo missions was called the Gemini program. There were a total of 10 manned Gemini missions between 1964 and 1966, which focused on testing rendezvous and docking maneuvers essential for the eventual Apollo lunar missions.

All the Apollo missions where named after Apollo not just 13. But the reason being is that he was the God of the Sun, Light and Knowledge. And the Apollo missions were all about collect data on the moon

None. Dogs have been sent into space but not to the moon.

The first moon landing, Apollo 11, encountered some minor issues, such as a computer overload error and a limited fuel supply during the descent to the lunar surface. However, the astronauts were able to successfully land and return to Earth without major problems.

Apollo 1 was a manned spacecraft that caught fire during a pre-launch test on January 27, 1967, killing all three astronauts aboard: Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chaffee. The incident led to extensive redesigns of the Apollo spacecraft before future missions.

It takes around 3 days for a rocket ship to travel from Earth to the moon. The exact time may vary depending on the specific mission and the speed of the rocket.

The Apollo 11 astronauts were selected based on their experience, training, and performance in previous missions. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins were skilled test pilots and had experience in spaceflight. Additionally, their abilities to work under pressure and willingness to take on the challenges of the mission played a role in their selection.

There were 18 Apollo missions.

# AS-201 # AS-202 # AS-203 # AS-204 (Failure) # Apollo 4 # Apollo 5 # Apollo 6 # Apollo 7 # Apollo 8 # Apollo 9 # Apollo 10 # Apollo 11 # Apollo 12 # Apollo 13 (Partial success) # Apollo 14 # Apollo 15 # Apollo 16 # Apollo 17

The United States wanted to beat the Soviet Union to the Moon, to symbolically show that Capitalism would beat Communism in the long run. The Soviets started out ahead in the Space Race, and stayed ahead, with the first satellite in orbit, the first animal in orbit, the first probe to pass by the Moon, the first probe to impact the Moon, the first spacecraft to return pictures of the Moon's far side, and the first man (Yuri Gagarin) and woman (Valentina Tereshkova) in space. They continued with the first "soft" landing of a lunar probe, and the first man-made object to orbit the Moon. Their long-range goal to land the first human on the moon was frustrated though, and the United States gradually matched their earlier achievements, and pulled ahead with the Apollo program. Another major difference between Soviet cosmonauts and American astronauts was that the astronauts were real pilots, who could steer and maneuver their spacecraft, while cosmonauts were mostly average workers, trained just enough to operate some of the onboard instruments, and were largely "just along for the ride" on missions. While the Soviet Union would have likely claimed the Moon for themselves, the Apollo astronauts made it clear "We came in peace for all mankind", and left a small plaque with those words, bolted to the bottom of the first lunar lander.

There have been a total of six manned moon landings, all of them conducted by NASA's Apollo program between 1969 and 1972. The most famous of these missions is Apollo 11, which successfully landed astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon in 1969.

The Saturn V rocket was used to send astronauts to the moon during the Apollo missions in the 1960s and 1970s. It remains the tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status, and it played a crucial role in the success of the Apollo program.

The last mission was the Apollo 17 also the eleventh Apollo mission and sixth and last lunar landing.

Neil Armstrong was the first man to land on the moon on July 20, 1969, as part of the Apollo 11 mission. He famously declared "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" as he set foot on the lunar surface.

The astronaut who circled the moon in Apollo 11 while his colleagues landed on its surface was Michael Collins. He remained in the command module in lunar orbit as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended in the lunar module to make the historic first manned landing on the moon.

No, Apollo 11 did not re-enter Earth's atmosphere at a 30-degree angle. The spacecraft re-entered at a steeper angle to ensure a safe re-entry and landing.

The reason you see no stars in any of the pictures from the moon landing (or in any of the pictures of Earth taken from the space shuttle) is because the light of the sun, reflecting off the moon (or Earth) is simply too bright, and it washes out the light from the dim stars in the background.

To understand this, you need to know a little about how cameras work. When the shutter release on a camera is pressed, the shutter opens for a fraction of a second, allowing the light-sensitive material behind the shutter to be exposed. The amount of light that is allowed through is controlled both by how wide the shutter opens (aperture) and for how long it's open (shutter speed). The brighter the object being photographed the less light you want to let through to the film. Too much exposure will create an unrecognizable photograph; you will simply see a white blob. This is critical to understand because it is at the heart of the "missing" stars.

The surface of the moon, in direct sunlight (as it was during the Apollo missions), is very bright. So bright, in fact, that it can create shadows on the Earth in the middle of the night from 238,000 miles away. That fact alone means any camera used on the moon's surface must have the settings as such to no overexpose the film. But the astronauts weren't just taking pictures of the moon; they also took pictures of each other. The cameras used by the crew were set up to take pictures of the lunar surface, other astronauts in white spacesuits, in a bright white environment, in the middle of the lunar morning, in direct sunlight. The fact that no stars showed up in the images is to be expected. Had there been stars there would have been more evidence of a hoax.

You can test this theory yourself. Tonight, grab your camera and stand inside your house near the window with all the lights on (you can even open the window to make sure there is no obstruction between yourself and the stars). Now position something in front of the window yet still inside, in direct lamp light. Using your camera (it doesn't matter if you use the auto settings or change the settings yourself) take a bunch of pictures of the object in front of you (remember that object is your focus, you are trying to get pictures of your vase, not the sky!). Now look at the images and count the number of stars in your pictures. The sky behind the well lit object in your house is black without stars, and that was just using lamplight not direct sunlight.

Incidentally, there are pictures taken of stars by a crew on the moon. Apollo 16 brought a special UV camera to the lunar surface for the specific purpose of doing some astronomy. There are hundreds of pictures of stars, just not in the pictures of the bright lunar surface.

See related link for a picture of the moon from Space - no stars!!

The Parkes Radio Antenna in Australia was the receiving station of the television signal sent from the Lunar Module at the time of the first moon landing.

Because of the specific type of signal the LM produced, the actual video could not be transmitted over standard television signal wavelengths, so the controllers at Parkes set up a TV camera, pointed it at the screen on which they were receiving the transmission, and sent the signal from their TV camera on to NASA mission control in Houston, which broadcast the signal worldwide. The famous footage of Neil Armstrong taking the first steps on the lunar surface was actually a live picture of a monitor at the Parkes receiving station.

• The Saturn V rocket was 110.6 m (363 ft) high.
• It had a maximum diameter of 10.1 m (33 ft).
• It weighed 3,038,500 kg (6,699,000 lb).

The result of the first moon landing was Neil Armstrong becoming the first person to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969, during the Apollo 11 mission. This historic event demonstrated that humans could successfully travel to and explore celestial bodies beyond Earth.

The quarantine the astronauts were subjected to was due to fears (later proved unsubstantiated) that the astronauts would bring unknown pathogens from the Moon and that many people might fall sick from these foreign diseases.

Apollo 1 was on Pad 34, Cape Kennedy, or as it's now known Launch Complex 34, Cape Canaveral.