Apollo Moon Missions

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

The primary purpose of the American Apollo Program was to land humans on the moon and return them safely to Earth. This goal was achieved on July 20, 1969, when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 mission.

Apollo 11 did not land on Earth. It was a space mission that landed on the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969.

All the astronauts that went to the moon and walked on its surface, never returned again. So from that perspective you could say that no one did. But while they were on the moon they would have had several walks on the surface and been back in the lunar module. 12 men set foot on the moon. So depending on what way you meant your question, you could say none or 12.

Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong put it there on July 21, 1969, about an hour before the end of their final moonwalk.

Apollo 11 landed on the Moon on the 20th of July 1969. Apollo 12 landed on the Moon on the 11th of November 1969, which was 114 days later.

Only the USA, to date, have put a human on the Moon

Apollo 8 was the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon and return safely to Earth. It was also the first time humans witnessed an Earthrise from lunar orbit, capturing the iconic photo of our planet rising over the Moon's horizon. This mission paved the way for subsequent Moon landings and was a major milestone in the space race.

Apollo was the name of the project that was attempting to get men to the moon. The program was named after the Greek god of light and music by NASA manager Abe Silverstein. There were various parts of the mission, starting with basic tests of the components that would be used, such as the modules and the rockets. Some of the missions sent unmanned rockets into space. The first mission was Apollo 1, then Apollo 2 and so on. Apollo 7 was the first of the Apollo missions to take men into space. Apollo 11 was the first one to land on the moon. Apollo 17 was the last Apollo mission.

The first astronaut landed on the surface of the Moon in the area known as the "Sea of Tranquility" or Mare Tranquillitatis. This was the landing site for the Apollo 11 mission, where astronaut Neil Armstrong famously took his first steps on the lunar surface on July 20, 1969.

The first astronaut to land on the moon was Neil Armstrong in 1969 as part of the Apollo 11 mission.

There are two main reasons; the gravity is 1/6 of Earth's so astronauts tended to bounce along. Conversely, to survive on the moon, astronauts are carrying a large backpack and wearing a bulky spacesuit - which doubles their weight; you can see the affect of the weight as the astronauts tend to lean forwards.

The Apollo 15 astronauts rode a lunar rover on the moon in 1971.

The US pursued the moon landing primarily for national prestige and to showcase technological and scientific superiority during the space race with the Soviet Union. Additionally, it aimed to expand knowledge of space, gather scientific data, and potentially pave the way for further exploration and colonization of other celestial bodies.

Currently, the moon does not have the necessary resources to support a large population. Technological advancements would be needed to establish sustainable colonies for a small number of people, not a large population.

The Apollo 11 moon landing took place on July 20, 1969.

Astronauts did not freeze on the Moon because there is no atmosphere to conduct heat away from their bodies. Additionally, the spacesuits they wore were equipped with heating systems to regulate their body temperature.

No, Apollo 11 was not a hoax. It was the mission during which astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969. The mission is widely supported by scientific evidence and has been verified by multiple sources.

David Scott and James Irwin rode the lunar rover on the moon during the Apollo 15 mission in 1971.

The Apollo 13 spacecraft consisted of a Command Module (CM) and a Lunar Module (LM). The CM was about 10 feet in diameter and 12 feet long, while the LM was around 22 feet tall and 14 feet wide. The total spacecraft weighed approximately 63,000 pounds.

President Kennedy understood that some measure of competition / conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States was inevitable: the social and economic systems of the two blocs were so fundamentally opposed that actual peaceful co-existence was no better than a pipedream.

Kennedy was also wise enough to understand that it was safer and more conducive to technological advance if the US compete with the USSR on who could get a man to the moon first, rather than have both countries continue with the Sabre rattling which had brought the world to the edge of destruction during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

In committing the USA to putting a man on the moon before January 1, 1970 Kennedy was inviting the USSR into a game which it was unlikely to win (the USA had scientists who were at least as good, and technology which was better), but could not ignore (Communist régimes rely heavily on government propaganda - to just let the USA control space exploration would have been a disaster for the Kremlin).

Kennedy was playing the USSR, forcing the Warsaw Pact countries to divert resources away from territorial expansion - where they might have given the USA a real headache (by extending the Communist sphere of influence in Berlin, for example) - to a technological race where they could barely keep-up (and even if they won, it would do no great harm).

The other great beauty of the Space Race was that it was open ended. Even if the USA put the first man on the moon (which it eventually did), the new goal might then be to build a Space Station. If the USSR was building a Space Station they would have no funds to deploy in Vietnam or to occupy Afghanistan. Kennedy's ruse might have kept the USSR playing catch-up for the rest of the century.

Sadly, after a few years of sanity following the assassination of Kennedy, the US electorate chose to elect a common swindler as its President. Then when the swindler was found out, they chose a cowboy from Brooklyn.

The Space Race strategy was largely abandoned, freeing up the USSR to annex Afghanistan and give the US military the kicking of its life in Vietnam. The Brooklyn cowboy's only answer to America's plummeting reputation in the West was to mobilise Christian fundamentalist groups at home to prop up the waddling Republican cause - so you get Creation Science, 9/11, Abu Ghraib, Laura Schlessinger, and the collapse of the Western banking system.

The Space Race was a clever idea, but in a democracy there is always the danger that you might be cleverer than the electorate can keep up with.

As Lord George Brown once said: It is Democracy, sometimes it is going to demock.

Yes, the astronauts' footprints are likely still on the Moon since there is no atmosphere or weather to erode them. However, due to the lack of atmosphere, there is also no wind or water on the Moon to completely preserve the footprints, so they may have been slightly distorted by micro-meteoroid impacts over time.

The first person landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, during NASA's Apollo 11 mission. Astronaut Neil Armstrong famously took the first step on the lunar surface, followed by Buzz Aldrin.

A Saturn V rocket at liftoff could reach levels of around 220 decibels at close range, which is louder than a gunshot or a jet engine. The noise could be heard from several miles away and would often cause windows to rattle nearby.