What was the first meal on the moon?
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I like the moon pie answer but -\n\nThe first meal eaten while in the shuttle on the moon was: Meal A—Bacon squares, peaches, sugar, cookie cubes, coffee, and pineapple-grapefruit drink. \n\nAlso:\nOn February 20, 1962, John Glenn ate applesauce from an aluminum tube and chewed on several small malted milk tablets, making him the first U.S. astronaut to eat in space.
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well there wasn't just one but the first person to walk on the moon was neil armstrong
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What did you eat? Was it real chunky or green looking like that puke in The Exorcist? lol  What a hoot.
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Apollo 17\n\nThere were 6 Apollo missions that landed on the Moon: Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17. Two missions in each of 1969, 1971 and 1972.\n\nMission: Apollo 11 \nCommander: Armstrong \nCommand Module Pilot: Collins \nLunar Module Pilot: Aldrin\nCommand Module Name: Columbia \nLunar Module Name: Eagle \nLaunch Date: July 16, 1969 \nDuration of Flight: 08d 03h 18m 35s\nFirst manned landing on the Moon, July 20. \n\nMission: Apollo 12 \nCommander: Conrad \nCommand Module Pilot: Gordon  \nLunar Module Pilot: Bean\nCommand Module Name: Yankee Clipper \nLunar Module Name: Intrepid \nLaunch Date: November 14, 1969 \nDuration of Flight: 10d 04h 36m 24s\nFirst precise manned landing on the Moon. Recovered part of Surveyor 3 probe. \n\nApollo 13 was launched April 11, 1970 but the oxygen tank exploded en route, forcing cancellation of the landing and the mission to be aborted.\n\nMission: Apollo 14 \nCommander: Shepard \nCommand Module Pilot: Roosa  \nLunar Module Pilot: Mitchell\nCommand Module Name: Kitty Hawk \nLunar Module Name: Antares \nLaunch Date: January 31, 1971 \nDuration of Flight: 09d 00h 01m 58s\nAlan Shepard, the sole astronaut of the Mercury MR-3 mission - and thus the first American in space - walks (and plays golf) on the Moon. \n\nMission: Apollo 15 \nCommander: Scott \nCommand Module Pilot: Worden  \nLunar Module Pilot: Irwin \nCommand Module Name: Endeavour \nLunar Module Name: Falcon \nLaunch Date: July 26, 1971 \nDuration of Flight: 12d 07h 11m 53s\nFirst mission with the Lunar Rover vehicle. \n\nMission: Apollo 16 \nCommander: Young \nCommand Module Pilot: Mattingly  \nLunar Module Pilot: Duke \nCommand Module Name: Casper \nLunar Module Name: Orion \nLaunch Date: April 16, 1972 \nDuration of Flight: 11d 01h 51m 05s \nFirst landing in the lunar highlands. \n\nMission: Apollo 17 \nCommander: Cernan \nCommand Module Pilot: Evans  \nLunar Module Pilot: Schmitt\nCommand Module Name: America \nLunar Module Name: Challenger \nLaunch Date: December 7, 1972 \nDuration of Flight: 12d 13h 51m 59s \nFinal Apollo lunar mission, first night launch, only mission with a professional geologist.
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There were six Moon landings. In the Apollo program, Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 landed on the Moon.
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The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It has no formal name other than "The Moon", although in English it is occasionally called Luna (Latin for moon), or Selene (Greek for moon), to distinguish it from the generic "moon" (natural satellites of other planets are also called moons). Its symbol is a crescent. The terms lunar, selene/seleno-, and -cynthion (from the Lunar deities Selene and Cynthia) refer to the Moon (aposelene, selenocentric, pericynthion, etc.).\n\nThe average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 kilometers (238,857 miles). The Moon's diameter is 3,476 kilometres (2,160 mi). Reflected sunlight from the Moon's surface reaches Earth in 1.3 seconds (at the speed of light).\n\nThe first man-made object to land on the Moon was Luna 2 in 1959, the first photographs of the otherwise occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3 in the same year, and the first people to land on the Moon came aboard Apollo 11 in 1969.
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The Soviet Luna program had launched Luna 1, the first spacecraft to fly past the moon on January 4, 1959. Its successor, Luna 2, was the first spacecraft to land on the moon, while Luna 3 took the first photos of the far side of the moon on October 7, 1959. Luna 9, launched by the USSR on February 3, 1966, performed the first "soft landing" on the moon; and Luna 10 became the first spacecraft to orbit the moon on April 3, 1966.\n\nThere have been no Russian cosmonauts on the surface.\n\nFollow the link for more information.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing
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amino acids, but the whole experiment was biased. why? they assumed that the first chemicals in the "primordial pool" were methane, ammonia, hydrogen and water. there is debate on this now because NASA has determined that the earth's "primordial soup" was not made of that. Water, oxygen and nitrogen seem to be more along the lines of reality. besides, linking amino acids together to form proteins is remarkably easy. if you are smart. by chance it "is about the same as the probability that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard could assemble a 747 from the contents therein" as Fredrick Hoyle has said (smart beyond belief, but weird)
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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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Well, that'd be way too many ribs for any one person to eat.  The problem though is that the moon is either extremely hot, in which case the ribs would be burnt to a crisp, or extremely cold, in which case they'd be all frozen.  Maybe you could wait until daylight, let them cook a bit and then eat them.
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twelve americans have stepped onto the lunar soil. they are, in order, neil a armstrong and edwin e aldren (apollo 11), charles conrad and alan bean (apollo 12), alan b shepard and edgar d mitchell (apollo 14), david r scott and james b irwin (apollo 15), john w young and charles m duke (apollo 16), and eugene a cernan and harrison h schmidt (apollo 17).\n\nthe second was edwin e aldren.
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big juicy steaks with mashed potatoes and gravy, corn on the cob with melted butter and salt. for dessert, cheesecake with strawberries!! mmmmmmmmm!!!\n\nthat would be the first day......lol!\n\nsome of you people need to get a grip and just have a little fun answering!! i know there will be no need for food in heaven but c'mon, have some fun!!!
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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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On July 20 ( July 21 GMT ) 1969 the first man stepped on the moon. During the next 3 years 6 missions to the moon was made and a total of 12 astronauts walked on the moon. One of the missions Apollo 13 failed and they had to return.\n\nDuring these missions thousands of images were taken, most of them with the Hasselblad EDC. A special version of the Hasselblad 500 EL. Many of these images are famous, like the one from Apollo 11 showing Buzz Aldrin with Neil Armstrong reflected in the glass of his helmet. (It is available in super resolution from the panorama).\n\nLess known is that during all the missions they made image sequences which with todays computer technics can be stitched together into 360o interactive panoramas giving you the possibillity to view the moon almost as you were there.\nMany of these panoramas have been published before but in low resolution and displayed in small sizes.\n\nDuring the last year the original films have been rescanned in large resolution and the Apollo 11 images were released the week before the 35 year anniversary. I can now present you for the first time the Moon in interactive 360 degree fullscreen Quicktime VR.\n\n3 panoramas are now available and I will follow up with panoramas from all the missions\n Stitching these images to make 360 degree panoramas is a difficult task as the astronauts did not know anything about interactive panoramas and the stitching methods which would come 25 years later.\n\nBookmark this page and return to see the rest of the panoramas.\n\n\nAnd while you wait for them - there are many other panoramas at panoramas.dk - Mt Everest, Mars, Eiffel Tower, New Year at Times Square, Niagara Falls and more than 150 others.\n\nToday we are sending space ships to Mars (view panoramas) and to Titan but still there are young educated people out there who believes in conspiration theories that claims we never been on the Moon. Please, Please Use your brain.\n\nGo to the frontpage for the last fullscreen of the week.
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To answer this question we need to look at why we went to the moon in the first place.  In 1957 the USSR launched Sputnik into space, and the space race began.  President Kennedy gave his 1961 Inaugural Address ("And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.") and sparked an interest for the United States to beat the USSR.  We made it to the moon first with Apollo 11.  The USSR eventually lost power and collapsed.  The United States was the only world power and didn't have any competition in space.  In the past 5-10 years, other countries have started taking an interest in space.  Japan, China, and the European Union all have plans to continue their space programs, and will eventually start to have manned missions.  The United States will then have to react and restart the space program and send people to the moon and beyond.  One important thing to note about the upcoming space race is that it will not only be for military research, but also for industry.  We will have to have manned missions throughout the solar system to start and maintain the mining of resources that will happen in the coming decades and centuries.  Unless Japan, China, or the European Union have massive leaps in technology, the United States will put it's 2020 Moon Goal on the way side because of expenses and lack of monetary return. (Check out the website for the current national debt.)
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"Jerry Elliott, a Cherokee and Osage, helped send the first man to the moon.\n\nAnd as a NASA flight mission controller, he helped bring home three astronauts from a broken space module called Apollo 13.\n\nHis secret to success was just laying himself out there, despite his cultural differences."\n\n\nedit: If you're talking about an Indian from India, the first Indian to work for NASA was Kalpana Chawla.  She was one of the crew that died on Columbia when it exploded on February 1, 2003.  Kalpana was born in Karnal, India.
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http://scign.jpl.nasa.gov/learn/plate1.htm