The Apollo 11 moon landing went down in history as a pinnacle of scientific and technological achievement, but that doesn't stop people from thinking it was fake. Decades after Neil Armstrong's historic small step for man and giant leap for mankind, myths continue to revolve around the moon ...
The first man to set foot on the Moon in 1969 was Neil Armstrong on the Apollo 11 mission, while the last man to walk on the Moon in 1972 was Gene Cernan on the Apollo 17 mission. Since then the Moon has only be visited by unmanned vehicles. The Moon has no atmosphere. This means...
A white circle indicates the region where Apollo 11, the first human mission to land on the Moon, was sent by NASA. The red dot at its center marks the approximate landing site. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 50 years on, NASA continues to reveal the Moon’s secrets, with an eye toward ...
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Splashdown of Apollo 11 occurred in the Pacific Ocean about 1,400 km (900 miles) southwest of Hawaii on July 24. After their return, the astronauts were quarantined for 21 days from the time Eagle had left the Moon. They were checked for any diseases they might have brought back from the...
Apollo 11, U.S. spaceflight in which astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to walk on the Moon. Apollo 11 was the culmination of the Apollo program and a massive national commitment by the United States to beat the Soviet Unio
HISTORY Vault: Moon Landing: The Lost Tapes On the 50th anniversary of the historic moon landing, this documentary unearths lost tapes of the Apollo 11 astronauts, and explores the dangers and challenges of the mission to the moon. WATCH NOW ...
Commander, Neil A. Armstrong, Command Module Pilot, Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., the prime crew of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission on July 20th, 1969. Image credit:Kevin Gill/Flickr It is also amazing facts about space travel. The American crews, comm...
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin was the second man to set foot on the moon. In 1969 at the height of Cold War between U.S and Soviet Union, he was part of the Apollo 11 mission with Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins. See the fact file below for more information on astronaut Buzz Aldrin or alt...
When NASA tried to restore the original recordings of the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 2009, the tapes were found to be missing. At the time, or soon after the Apollo 11 mission, a crippling shortage of magnetic tape forced NASA managers to re-use miles of recorded tape that was stored in...