What was the name of the space mission that first landed on the moon?
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Apollo 11.\n\nApollo 11 was the fifth human spaceflight of the Apollo program, the third human voyage to the moon, and the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It launched on July 16, 1969 carrying Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin. On July 21, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the Moon, while Collins orbited above.\n\nThe mission fufilled President John F. Kennedy's goal of landing a human on the Moon by the end of the 1960s and returning them safely to the Earth.
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The first U.S. manned space mission:\n\nMission: Mercury 3 (first manned flight)\nSpacecraft Name: Freedom 7\nOccupant: Alan Shepard\nDate: 5/5/1961
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The European Space Agency's probe SMART-1 is currently in orbit around the moon -- so it is a moon of a moon.
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Space exploration is the physical exploration of outer space. The politics, science, and engineering behind space flight all fall under the auspices of space exploration. There are many rationales behind space exploration; among the most common are ones focusing on scientific research or the future survival of humanity. This endeavour has been to some degree a dream and goal of humanity for the past several centuries, but it was not until the development of large liquid-fueled rocket engines during the early 20th century that it really began to be seriously developed.\n\nThe first major milestone of this endeavour was the launch of the USSR's Sputnik 1 on October 5, 1957, the first man-made object to orbit the Earth. After this event, the USA declared itself to be in a space race with the Soviet Union. Major achievements of the first era of space exploration (which lasted until 1969) were putting the first man in space, (Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1) on April 12, 1961 (again by the USSR), the first spacewalk (by Alexei Leonov, also a Soviet cosmonaut) in 1965, and the first Moon landing by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin aboard Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969 (by the USA). The next notable achivement in space was the launch of first space station, Salyut 1, from the USSR. After the first 20 years of exploration, focus began shifting from one-off flights to renewable hardware, such as the Space Shuttle, and from competition to cooperation as on the International Space Station. Recently, private interests have begun pushing space tourism, while larger government programs have been advocating a return to the Moon and possibly missions to Mars in the near future.
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they didn't 1969. Sure think about it - how could they have? It was just a conspiricy to show up russians because they had got a man in space. That was the great thing that happened. The first real person on the moon was not until 1974.
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Yes, the US landed on the moon in 1969!
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missions took their name from the Ancient Greek God Apollo, the god of Solar Light and Sun.In addition, all astronomy terms are Greek.
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Six times:  Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17.  (Apollo 13 never landed, it had to abort the mission due to problems en route.)\n\nEach mission landed two men on the moon.\n\nAnybody who says zero (that they were faked) probably also believes the world is flat.
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The camera was mounted on the leg of the lunar lander.\n\n1) Twelve 12 American astronauts have walked on the moon.\n\nApollo 11: Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin\nApollo 12: Pete Conrad & Alan Bean\nApollo 13: << failed to land on the moon >>\nApollo 14: Alan Shepard & Edgar (Ed) Mitchell\nApollo 15: David Scott & James Irwin\nApollo 16: John Young & Charles Duke\nApollo 17: Eugene (Gene) Cernan & Harrison Schmidt\n\n\n2) Why haven't we been back?  \n\na) American astronauts visited the moon on six occasions.\n\nb) The "moon race" was an extension of the cold war. It was mostly about national prestige. We got there first and achieved our primary objective. There was some good science: surveys, measurements, sample collection. But it was mostly about being there first. Once we achieved our primary objective, there was no political will to go back. There still isn't.  Perhaps, if we discover He3 or something else valuable, there will be.\n\nc) I used to travel to Crested Butte, Colorado every year to ski. Because I don't go anymore, does it mean that I never went?\n\n\n3) What about the Van Allen radiation belts?  Wouldn't it have killed the astronauts?\n\nThe existence of the Van Allen radiation belts postulated in the 1940s by Nicholas Christofilos.  Their existence was confirmed in *1958* by the Explorer I satellite launched by the USA. \n\nThe radiation in the Van Allen radiation belts is not particularly strong.  You would have to hang out there for a week or so in order to get radiation sickness.  And, because the radiation is not particularly strong, a few millimeters of metal is all that is required for protection.  "An object satellite shielded by 3 mm of aluminum will receive about 2500 rem (25 Sv) per *year*."\n\n"In practice, Apollo astronauts who travelled to the moon spent very little time in the belts and received a harmless dose. [6]. Nevertheless NASA deliberately timed Apollo launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimise the radiation."  When the astronauts returned to Earth, their dosimeters showed that they had received about as much radiation as a couple of medical X-rays.\n\n\n4) The U.S. government scammed everyone?  \n\nIn 1972, there was a politically motivated burglary of a hotel room in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. There were only about six or eight people who knew about it. However, those people, including Richard M. Nixon, the President of the United States, failed to keep that burglary a secret. It exploded into a scandal that drove the President and a number of others from office.\n\nIf six or eight people couldn't keep a hotel room burglary a secret, then how could literally thousands of people could have kept their mouths shut about six faked moon landings? Not just one moon landing, but six of them!\n\n\n5) What about the USSR?  \n\nEven if NASA and other government agencies could have faked the six moon landings well enough to fool the general public, they could NOT have fooled the space agency or military intelligence types in the USSR. The Soviets were just dying to beat us. If the landings were faked, the Soviets would have re-engineered their N-1 booster and landed on the moon just to prove what liars Americans are. Why didn't they? Because the landings were real and the Soviets knew it.\n\n\n6) Why does the flag shake?  Where are the stars?\n\nTake a look at the first two websites listed below.  They deal well with all of the technical questions.\n\n\n7) Finally, please tell us what you would accept as definitive evidence that the six moon landings were real. Is there anything?
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The space vehicle was launched at 7:51:00 a.m. EST on December 21, 1968, and was inserted into a 103 by 98 nautical mile parking orbit. The launch vehicle was a three-stage Saturn V and the spacecraft was a standard block II command and service module configuration. A lunar module test article was mounted in the spacecraft/launch vehicle adapter for mass loading purposes.
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Apollo 14 also brought nearly 100 pounds of lunar samples back to Earth, was the first use of the Mobile Equipment Transporter, placed the largest payload into lunar orbit, had the longest time spent on the lunar surface and the longest lunar EVA, was the first to use the shortened lunar orbit rendezvous technique, and was the first one to use colour TV broadcast from the lunar surface.\n\nit was also the mission which performed the first U.S. materials processing experiments in space, paving the way for potential future zero-G manufacturing industry.\n\nit was the only Apollo mission to include one of the orginial Mercury astronauts to reach the Moon (Alan Shepard).\n\nApollo 14 was the mission in which Shepard smuggled a makeshift six iron and two golf balls to the Moon and took several swings.  Mitchell used a lunar scoop handle as a javelin, creating the first Lunar Olympics.\n\nMitchell also conducted some unauthorized ESP experiments while en route to the Moon.  His success rate was lower than random chance.\n\nIt was the also the mission in which tree seeds were taken from Earth to the Moon and back.  Many of these Moon trees were planted by schools around the country, and many are still standing.\n\nIn addition to the many scientific and technological mission breakthroughs for this mission, Apollo 14 helped to humanize the space program for a lot of people.  Seeing astronauts having fun on the Moon was probably more valuable to the space program than the engineers and physicists were willing to admit.
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We visited the moon six times..Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17. We haven't been back because there is nothing there worth the expense of going. Each trip cost nearly half a billion dollars and that was in the early 70s.
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Just do a google search.\n\n1956. What happend then\nNasa sent Apollo missions up in space, etc.
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No one else had flown around the moon. \n\nIts analogous to Lindy's flight across the atlantic. It may seem like they didn't accomplish much in hindsight, but consider the time -- no on from this planet had ever even approached another astronomic body. Much less, had anyone orbited it.\n\nThose of us who remember Apollo 8 (I think I was about 10) know the exhilaration of knowing the US had beat the pants off the Soviets. Star Trek was in its first season - good God, put it in perspective. We had 3 goddamn TV channels.
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In July 1969 Armstrong, as commander of the Apollo 11 lunar mission, became the first person to set foot on the Moon.
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"lovefool"\nthe cardigans\nfrom: first band on the moon
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On July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon. He said the historic words, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."\n\nA camera in the Lunar Module provided live television coverage as Neil Armstrong climbed down the ladder to the surface of the moon.