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Apollo Moon Missions
The Apollo Moon Missions were a series of NASA missions that put 12 men on the moon through six space flights during 1961-1975. This category is for questions and answers about those missions.
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Which Apollo mission was launched on November 14 1969?
Apollo 12, the second moon landing mission, launched on November 17th 1969 (it landed on the moon on November 19).
Who were the Apollo 1 crew members?
The Apollo 1 crew members were astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. They tragically lost their lives during a pre-launch test on January 27, 1967, when a fire broke out in their command module.
When did man first land on the Moon?
Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon at 10:56 P.M. EDT on July 20, 1969.
1969: Man takes first steps on the Moon
American Neil Armstrong has become the first man to walk on the Moon.
The astronaut stepped onto the Moon's surface, in the Sea of Tranquility, at 0256 GMT, nearly 20 minutes after first opening the hatch on the Eagle landing craft.
Armstrong had earlier reported the lunar module's safe landing at 2017 GMT with the words: "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
As he put his left foot down first Armstrong declared: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
He described the surface as being like powdered charcoal and the landing craft left a crater about a foot deep.
'We came in peace'
The historic moments were captured on television cameras installed on the Eagle and turned on by Armstrong.
Armstrong spent his first few minutes on the Moon taking photographs and soil samples in case the mission had to be aborted suddenly.
He was joined by colleague Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin at 0315 GMT and the two collected data and performed various exercises - including jumping across the landscape - before planting the Stars and Stripes flag at 0341 GMT.
They also unveiled a plaque bearing President Nixon's signature and an inscription reading: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind."
After filming their experience with a portable television camera the astronauts received a message from the US President.
President Nixon, in the White House, spoke of the pride of the American people and said: "This certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made."
Many other nations - including the UK - sent messages of congratulation.
Moscow Radio announced the news solemnly in its 1030 GMT broadcast.
As Aldrin and Armstrong collected samples, Michael Collins told mission control in Houston he had successfully orbited the Moon in the mother ship Columbia, and take-off was on schedule for 1750 GMT this evening.
1969
Name of American rocket used to get to the moon?
The Apollo Command Module and Lunar Landing Module were launched using a Saturn V
rocket
Why did people think that armstrong faked the landing on the moon?
It was because the flag was not waving. And there were no stars in the sky. The flag was not waving as the moon has no wind , and the gravity is less. There are no stars asthe photo was taken in the day.
What happened after Apollo program?
Apollo-Soyuz, to use up remaining lunar-capable gear, such as the Apollo 18 capsule.
And then there was Skylab, which used non- lunar capable rockets and capsules.
Finally, there came the Space Shuttle.
Why and how was the flag waving on the moon?
The fabric of the flag has a wire mesh sewn into it. The flag rolls up into a nice little package. When on the Moon, the astronauts extend the pole and stick it into the ground. They can then unroll the flag.
Were the moon landings true or false in 1969?
They were real, and it's a terrible injustice to everyone who worked so hard to finally make that "giant leap for mankind" to pretend it was a multi billion dollar hoax! I however am not one of those people so don't assume this report to be biased.
You cannot argue with numbers
Do you believe that anyone who disagrees has a decorous understanding of what NASA are capable of? With a constantly inclining annual budget of over $100,000,000,000, over 219² miles at Kennedy space center alone and an inscrutable interest and understanding of how to make space travel possible, there is no watertight argument against the Apollo program succeeding.
There is however mathematical proof that they did.
The moon is, on average, 1.05 light seconds from Earth (a light second is the distance a photon of light travels in a second, it's not a measure of time). From Kennedy space center, Florida, you could shine a beam of light to the moon which will reflect off of a mirror and come back. It takes exactly 2.1 seconds for the light to come back into the receiver which means it had to have gone as far as the moon and back and it had to have a mirror to reflect it.
The only way a mirror could have been placed on the moon, where Kennedy space center knows where to find it, is if an astronaut placed it there.
Or perhaps the martians did it?
Apollo 15 and the Kaguya space probe
There is physical, visual and mathematical proof that man has been to the moon; 800 lbs. of basalt was acquired from the Apollo missions and transported back to earth. This type of basalt, which has been naturally formed over the billions of years that the moon has existed, is found nowhere on earth, so where else can it have come from but the moon?
That is physical evidence. The visual evidence is the infamous comparison between a radar image, taken by the Japanese space probe Kaguya (Ka-goy-a), and an average photograph taken on the Apollo 15 mission. It depicts two different types of photograph, taken at different times, on missions by different countries, however the images are identical. I have personally scrutinized the two to find any differences and so may you; there is no difference between the two and there's no way that this could have been faked.
The counter arguments
You may be wondering about the flapping flag. Obviously there's no wind on the moon (there's no air) to make it flap but it does appear to flap a decent amount doesn't it?
Yes, this is because of the lack of air. There is a near perfect vacuum on the moon, so when they put the flag on the moon it shook and there is no air resistance to stop the flag flapping until its weight decelerates its horizontal motion due to the gravitational pull of the moon.
You could also question how the flag stays upright with nothing to hold it up?
Well, quite simply, there is. There is a pole through the top of the flag holding, keeping it horizontal.
In addition, this is a ridiculous argument regardless of its flaws. If NASA had tried to fake it, then they wouldn't let the flag be blown around by the wind coming through an open door would they? Otherwise ill informed conspiracy theorists would think that the flag was being blown around by wind.
There is a sceptic site at
http://www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/cosmicapollo.html
These are quite convincing lies I'm afraid but the creator obviously doesn't have all the facts. Have you ever before seen the video near the top on any news channel before? no, because all the 'witnesses' are actors. Notice how there's no footage of these people at the places they claim they have been to Did_man_realy_go_to_the_moontheir claims.
Secondly, the pictures they use have been air brushed by the conspiracy theorists who made the site, not by NASA and they aren't covering any objects up - it's just smudged ground. Again, if NASA had tried to fake it, it wouldn't be so badly obvious.
They also say that they've attached thin wires to the astronauts to help them 'bounce' around the moon and then halved the film speed. Well they can still talk at the same speed and if the audio is on the same track as the visuals (sound and picture) then you can't halve the speed of one without the other. Therefore it hasn't been slowed down at all. Mythbusters also disproved this conspiracy theory.
Remember they can just make up all their facts and videos as persuasive techniques and do whatever they like to the photos and claim that NASA did it. NASA cannot lie about something as incredible and important as the first man on the moon, as 1 billion years in the future (due to solar luminescence - heat and radiation) the Earth will be uninhabitable by humans and the future of the entire human race will depend on our ability to survive in space (this isn't even Sci-fi).
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Why was the Apollo thirteen re-entry communications black out so long?
For the Apollo 13 mission, the blackout was much longer than normal because the flight path of the spacecraft was unexpectedly at a much shallower angle than normal.[4] According to the mission log maintained by Gene Kranz, the Apollo 13 re-entry blackout lasted around 6 minutes, beginning at 142:39 and ending at 142:45, and was 1 minute 27 seconds longer than had been predicted.
Did man really land on the moon?
Yes. The Apollo 11 mission landed the first humans on the Moon. Launched on July 16, 1969, the third lunar mission of NASA's Apollo Program was crewed by Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr. On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon, while Collins orbited in the Command Module.
The mission fulfilled President John F. Kennedy's goal of reaching the moon by the end of the 1960s, which he had expressed during a speech given before a joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961.
Who was on the crew of Apollo 9?
The crew of Apollo 9 consisted of commander James McDivitt, command module pilot David Scott, and lunar module pilot Russell Schweickart. They conducted a series of tests in Earth's orbit to demonstrate the spacecraft's ability to dock and perform maneuvers needed for the upcoming moon missions.
The Apollo 11 lunar module , The Eagle landed on the moon on 20/7/1969.
What was the first spacecraft designed to hold two people?
The first spacecraft designed to hold two people was the Voskhod 1, launched by the Soviet Union in 1964. It allowed two cosmonauts to orbit the Earth together for the first time.
Yes, twelve American astronauts landed on the Moon. Six different Apollo missions landed there between 1969 and 1972.
If you take the ~$20.4 billion price tag of the Apollo program and break it down into a cost per manned flight (Apollo flew 11 manned missions, 6 of which landed on the moon), each mission cost roughly $1.85 billion.
Of course there are many ways to break down the cost of the missions, but since NASA accounted for the program as a whole rather than per mission there is no official figure.
How long did it take for Apollo 17 to get to the moon?
It took Apollo 17 approximately 76 hours to travel from Earth to the moon. The spacecraft launched on December 7, 1972 and landed on the moon on December 11, 1972.
Who was the second man to go to the moon?
The secound man to set foot onto the moon was Buzz Alwdrin because Neil Armstrong was the first. They set foot on the moon on the 20th of July 1969
How did the US fake the 1969 moon landing?
It didn't, contrary to those who claim it was in a studio in Kentucky in June. (words taken from "Everything You Know is Wrong" by Chumbawamba). All of the allegations such as the "waving flag in airless space" to non-perpendicular shadows to multiple light sources have been disproved. Besides, what about all the other flights that went there. No one has shown that there were any anomalies in film from those flights. But they did see the Loch Ness monster in the Sea of Tranquility.
Did Alan Shepard go to college?
Yes, Alan Shepard attended the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1944.
Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969.
Who was the first women to walk on the moon?
All 24 of the humans who have walked on the moon have been white male US citizens.
When did pete conrad land on the moon?
Pete Conrad landed on the moon during the Apollo 12 mission on November 19, 1969. He was the third person to walk on the Moon.
What cause US to go to the moon?
The moon landings took place because of the rivalry between the USA and the USSR. In the early days of space travel, the USA believed (correctly) that the USSR had a long term aim of landing on the Moon. During the early space "race" it was apparent that the USSR were being more successful, (the USSR launched the first satellite and the first man to orbit the Earth). At the same time, the USA had some embarrassing failed launches. The then president (John Kennedy) realised that it was important for the USA to be seen to be a leader in technology and there made a commitment for a manned moon landing by the end of the 1960s. Following the assasination of Kennedy, it became politically impossible to cancel the moon landing missions - they were tremendously expensive; Russian space scientists admitted after the collapse of the USSR that they couldn't possibly match the USA spending on Apollo.
Who was affected on the 1st moon landing?
The astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, were the ones directly impacted by the 1st moon landing. However, this historic event had a profound effect on humanity as a whole, inspiring generations and marking a significant milestone in space exploration.
