In 1949, Gallup polled Americans on what scientific advances they thought would happen by 1999. 88% believed cancer would be cured, and 63% believed airplanes would be nuclear powered. Only 15% thought a man would walk on the moon.
During an address to a joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy proposed a national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the 1960s.
President Kennedy wanted to go to Mars not the Moon – but engineers told him it was 'a little bit too far'. Nasa told him it would take at least 15 years before we could put a man on the Moon after a weekend of intense calculations.
After hearing President's Kennedy's "end of the decade" speech, an Englishman made a wager with a bookmaker of 10 pounds at 1000/1 "that a man will set foot on the surface of the moon before the first of January 1970." He thought it was "a common sense bet."
During a September 20, 1963 speech before the United Nations General Assembly, President Kennedy proposed that the United States and the Soviet Union join forces in their efforts to reach the Moon. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's son Sergei claimed Khrushchev was poised to accept Kennedy's proposal at the time of Kennedy's assassination. The Soviets did not trust Vice President Johnson, so Khrushchev rejected the plan.
Launched on December 21, 1968, Apollo 8 was the second manned mission of the Apollo space program. Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders became the first humans to travel beyond Earth orbit and into an orbit around the Moon.
On December 24, 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts gazed beyond the barren moonscape at the beauty and color of the earth rising, The crew were the first humans to witness Earthrise. As they saw from a distance the separations of day and night and of land and water described in Genesis 1, the three were inspired to read from the Bible the account of God's creation of the earth during a Christmas Eve television broadcast. At the time, the broadcast was the most watched TV program ever.
Apollo 10 was under-fueled on purpose, just in case the astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene A. Cernan got any cowboy ideas on trying to land on the moon. Craig Nelson wrote in his book Rocket Men that NASA was concerned they would attempt an unplanned landing, writing they said "Don't give those guys an opportunity to land, 'cause they might!"
Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin landed their Lunar Module on July 20, 1969, and walked on the lunar surface the following day.
Robert Goddard, the scientist who created the first liquid fueled rocket, which was launched in 1926, was ridiculed for his belief man could reach the moon. The New York Times even mocked his understanding of basic physics. They later published a correction the day after the launch of Apollo 11.
President Kennedy wanted to go to Mars not the Moon – but engineers told him it was 'a little bit too far'. Nasa told him it would take at least 15 years before we could put a man on the Moon after a weekend of intense calculations.
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| President Kennedy delivers his proposal to put a man on the Moon to Congress |
After hearing President's Kennedy's "end of the decade" speech, an Englishman made a wager with a bookmaker of 10 pounds at 1000/1 "that a man will set foot on the surface of the moon before the first of January 1970." He thought it was "a common sense bet."
During a September 20, 1963 speech before the United Nations General Assembly, President Kennedy proposed that the United States and the Soviet Union join forces in their efforts to reach the Moon. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's son Sergei claimed Khrushchev was poised to accept Kennedy's proposal at the time of Kennedy's assassination. The Soviets did not trust Vice President Johnson, so Khrushchev rejected the plan.
Launched on December 21, 1968, Apollo 8 was the second manned mission of the Apollo space program. Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders became the first humans to travel beyond Earth orbit and into an orbit around the Moon.
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| Apollo 8 crew. From left to right are: James A. Lovell Jr., William A. Anders, and Frank Borman |
On December 24, 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts gazed beyond the barren moonscape at the beauty and color of the earth rising, The crew were the first humans to witness Earthrise. As they saw from a distance the separations of day and night and of land and water described in Genesis 1, the three were inspired to read from the Bible the account of God's creation of the earth during a Christmas Eve television broadcast. At the time, the broadcast was the most watched TV program ever.
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| Taken by Apollo 8 crewmember Bill Anders on December 24, 1968 |
Apollo 10 was under-fueled on purpose, just in case the astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene A. Cernan got any cowboy ideas on trying to land on the moon. Craig Nelson wrote in his book Rocket Men that NASA was concerned they would attempt an unplanned landing, writing they said "Don't give those guys an opportunity to land, 'cause they might!"
Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin landed their Lunar Module on July 20, 1969, and walked on the lunar surface the following day.
Robert Goddard, the scientist who created the first liquid fueled rocket, which was launched in 1926, was ridiculed for his belief man could reach the moon. The New York Times even mocked his understanding of basic physics. They later published a correction the day after the launch of Apollo 11.
Apollo-11 trajectory to the Moon is named "Kondratyuk Route" after a self-educated Ukrainian who had calculated it 50 years before the lunar flight.
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the Moon in 1969, the third astronaut in the mission, Michael Collins, stayed in orbit 75 miles (121 km) above the surface.
Right before Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, his fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin, an elder at his Presbyterian church back on Earth, took communion on board the Lunar Module. He had prepared ahead of time a small wafer and wine. NASA made Aldrin maintain radio silence, but he still took the Eucharist elements and read John 15:5 ("I am the vine, you are the branches…") while Armstrong looked on. So, the first liquid poured on the moon, and the first food eaten there, was the wine and the bread!
When Apollo 11 landed, it had only about 25 seconds of fuel left.
The first words spoken on the moon were said by Neil Armstrong: “That's one small step for man, a giant leap for mankind." The speech, as written by his wife, read "That's one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind." Unfortunately he forgot the a in the between for and man, thus changing the meaning.
Right before Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, his fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin, an elder at his Presbyterian church back on Earth, took communion on board the Lunar Module. He had prepared ahead of time a small wafer and wine. NASA made Aldrin maintain radio silence, but he still took the Eucharist elements and read John 15:5 ("I am the vine, you are the branches…") while Armstrong looked on. So, the first liquid poured on the moon, and the first food eaten there, was the wine and the bread!
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| Buzz Aldrin (pictured) walked on the Moon with Neil Armstrong, on Apollo 11, July 20–21, 1969 |
When Apollo 11 landed, it had only about 25 seconds of fuel left.
The first words spoken on the moon were said by Neil Armstrong: “That's one small step for man, a giant leap for mankind." The speech, as written by his wife, read "That's one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind." Unfortunately he forgot the a in the between for and man, thus changing the meaning.
Like two children playing on the beach, Armstrong and Aldrin bounced up and down on the lunar surface. Armstrong said: "It’s fun … you’ve got to be careful you lean in the direction you want to go, or you seem inebriated."
The first meal eaten on the Moon included bacon squares, sugar biscuits, tinned peaches, a pineapple and grapefruit juice drink and coffee.
Neil Armstrong planted the US flag on the moon. However, he was not claiming the moon for the US because of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty that made the moon into a 'global commons' .
The Lunar Flag Assembly was designed to survive a Moon landing and to appear to "wave" as it would in a breeze on Earth. However, the flag fell over when the Lunar Module Eagle took off.
The walls of the Moon-landing craft were so thin-to save wight- that Buzz Aldrin said he could pierce them with the tip of a biro.
Buzz Aldrin "McGuyverd" a broken circuit breaker on the Apollo 11 lander with a felt-tip pen, without which he and Armstrong would have died on the moon. A switch to the circuit breaker had broken off in all the too-ing and fro-ing in the cramped environment. The circuit breaker was the one that activated the ascent engine that would lift them off the moon to rendezvous with Michael Collins, who was orbiting overhead in the Columbia.
Armstrong and Aldrin left behind on the Moon a white pouch containing a silicon disc slightly bigger than a silver dollar. Inscribed in microscopic font on the disc are 73 messages, each from a different country, expressing wishes of goodwill and peace.
The first meal eaten on the Moon included bacon squares, sugar biscuits, tinned peaches, a pineapple and grapefruit juice drink and coffee.
Neil Armstrong planted the US flag on the moon. However, he was not claiming the moon for the US because of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty that made the moon into a 'global commons' .
The Lunar Flag Assembly was designed to survive a Moon landing and to appear to "wave" as it would in a breeze on Earth. However, the flag fell over when the Lunar Module Eagle took off.
The walls of the Moon-landing craft were so thin-to save wight- that Buzz Aldrin said he could pierce them with the tip of a biro.
Buzz Aldrin "McGuyverd" a broken circuit breaker on the Apollo 11 lander with a felt-tip pen, without which he and Armstrong would have died on the moon. A switch to the circuit breaker had broken off in all the too-ing and fro-ing in the cramped environment. The circuit breaker was the one that activated the ascent engine that would lift them off the moon to rendezvous with Michael Collins, who was orbiting overhead in the Columbia.
Armstrong and Aldrin left behind on the Moon a white pouch containing a silicon disc slightly bigger than a silver dollar. Inscribed in microscopic font on the disc are 73 messages, each from a different country, expressing wishes of goodwill and peace.
Michael Collins had spinal fusion surgery in 1968 and was removed from the crew of Apollo 8. It caused a rotation in astronaut assignments that landed him into a prime position on the Apollo 11 moon landing.
While orbiting the moon aboard Apollo 11, Mission Control detected a problem with the environmental control system and told Michael Collins to implement Environmental Control System Malfunction Procedure 17. Instead he just flicked the switch off and on. It fixed the problem.
After his epic journey, Collins retired from NASA and became director of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington.
The average age of a NASA mission control engineer for Apollo 11 was 26.
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| Apollo 11 crew,: commander Neil Armstrong, CM pilot Michael Collins, and LM pilot Buzz Aldrin |
The average age of a NASA mission control engineer for Apollo 11 was 26.
When Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad, the third man in history to go on the moon, his first words when he landed were "Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me."
The Apollo 12 astronauts took a color TV camera to the Moon's surface, but one of them broke it by pointing it at the sun.
Before the landing of Apollo 14, its landing radar failed to function. Astronauts fixed the problem by turning it off and on again.
While on Apollo 16, command module pilot Ken Mattingly lost his wedding ring—another astronaut caught it days later as it floated out a door during a spacewalk.
During their second day on the moon on July 31, 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin drove the first ever off-Earth vehicle, the Lunar Roving "moon buggy".
The Apollo 12 astronauts took a color TV camera to the Moon's surface, but one of them broke it by pointing it at the sun.
Before the landing of Apollo 14, its landing radar failed to function. Astronauts fixed the problem by turning it off and on again.
While on Apollo 16, command module pilot Ken Mattingly lost his wedding ring—another astronaut caught it days later as it floated out a door during a spacewalk.
During their second day on the moon on July 31, 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin drove the first ever off-Earth vehicle, the Lunar Roving "moon buggy".
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| Lunar Roving Vehicle used on Apollos 15–17 |
Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, wrote his daughter's initials in the lunar dust. They should still be legible in 50,000 years.
The Apollo astronauts left behind 96 bags of urine, feces and vomit on the moon. The bags were left behind to make room for lunar dust and rocks the astronauts brought home to Earth.
The Apollo astronauts left behind 96 bags of urine, feces and vomit on the moon. The bags were left behind to make room for lunar dust and rocks the astronauts brought home to Earth.
NASA originally planned to fly moon missions up to Apollo 20, but budget cutbacks ended at Apollo 17 and left three Saturn V rockets unused. Two wound up in museums, and the other one was repurposed to launch the Skylab space station.
American conspiracy theorist Bart Sibrel made a film called Astronauts Gone Wild, where he confronted nine astronauts by asking them to swear an oath on the Bible that they really walked on the moon. Buzz Aldrin punched him, and only Gene Cernan and Edgar Mitchell swore the whole oath. Mitchell then kicked him on the rear.
The surface of moon has been more thoroughly explored than most of the deep oceans on earth.
Technology in 1969 wouldn't allow for an accurate simulation of the moon landing. Faking it would have cost nearly triple the amount of actually going to the moon.
The Apollo Lunar Module had no seats, its occupants stood during transit to and from the moon.
The surface of moon has been more thoroughly explored than most of the deep oceans on earth.
Technology in 1969 wouldn't allow for an accurate simulation of the moon landing. Faking it would have cost nearly triple the amount of actually going to the moon.
The Apollo Lunar Module had no seats, its occupants stood during transit to and from the moon.
The Odysseus robotic lander of the IM-1 mission performed the first commercial soft landing on the Moon on February 22, 2024. It touched down near Malapert A, a crater located about 186 miles (300 km) from the Moon's south pole, at 6:23 PM Eastern Standard Time (23:23 UTC). This landing was a historic milestone, marking the first time a private company successfully achieved a soft landing on the Moon, as distinct from previous government-led missions like Apollo.
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