what year did americans first walk on the moon?
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July 20 1969....was the first time americans went to the moon. Neil armstrong and his fellow astronaut Edwin Aldrin landed at 4:17 Pm and Neil took his first step on the moon at 10:56 Pm. Hope this is enough information for you!
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The first moon landing by a human was that of American Neil Armstrong, Commander of the Apollo 11 mission. On July 20, 1969, while their teammate Michael Collins controlled the command module "Columbia," Armstrong, accompanied by Buzz Aldrin, landed the lunar module, "Eagle" on the surface of the moon at 4:17 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. This article covers the events immediately surrounding the successful moon landing.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing
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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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126 in space 12 have walked on the moon
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Apollo 13 and when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.
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The first was Apollo 11...
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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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Zero is the absolute wrong answer to your question.\n \nThere have been 12 Americans to walk on the Moon. The last person to step on the Moon was Harrison "Jack" Schmitt in December of 1972 aboard Apollo 17. He was the only scientist to ever go there. His Commander for the flight was Gene Cernan. Gene Cernan was actually the last person to be on the Moon because Jack Schmitt climbed back up into the Lunar Module first leaving Gene Cernan still on the surface. Mr. Cernan wrote a book called "The Last Man on the Moon" that I highly recommend reading. Another book called simply "A Man on the Moon" by Andrew Chaikin is probably the best one you can find on reading about all the people that made the trip. It's over 800 pages long (YIKES) and was then broken up into three separte picture books that shows you the actual pictures on the Moon as the author describes it. It's kind of like being there yourself!!!\n There are literally hundreds of thousands of photos from the six lunar landing missions that you can see at a number of NASA websites. \nDon't ever let anyone tell you that the Moon Landings were a hoax. For every "proof" that these people come up with to "prove" the hoax theory, there is a relatively easy explanation to shoot them down. Besides, there are 958[?] pounds of Lunar Rock that they brought back that thousands of scientists have examined and not one of them have ever said that any of these rocks and "soil" could have ever come from the Earth. The reason being that they have never been exposed to water on the inside or out which is quite impossible for Earth rocks. Plus several of them are older than any Earth rock that anyone has ever found!\nThree of these men are no longer with us, so there are only nine people alive that have walked on the Moon. He are there names, from the first to the last person on the Moon: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin-Apollo 11, Pete Conrad (deceased)and Alan Bean- Apollo 12, Alan Shepard (deceased)and Ed Mitchell- Apollo 14, Dave Scott and Jim Irwin (deceased)- Apollo 15, John Young and Charlie Duke-Apollo 16, and finally Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt- Apollo 17.
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They DID land on the moon. See the sources.
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in\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon
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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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To be annoyingly specific, there was no last person to *land* on the moon... Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmidt touched down together in the Apollo 17 Lunar Module at *exactly* the same moment. Cernan was, however, the last person whose foot left the lunar soil when he was lat to climb back into the LM. Then the two of them departed at the same moment to return to lunar orbit and dock with Ron Evans in the orbiting Command Module.
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Is it really true that man never really walked on the Moon...the picture of the American Flag (the one put there by the Apollo astronauts) is waving (or straight out) in the wind. How could that be possible if there is no atmosphere on the Moon? Was it some sort of optical illusion? If there were only three persons on that trip to the moon and one was Neil Armstrong, one was the other was standing beside him and third one was in the space shuttle then who took the photograph? \nif there were three astronauts on the Apollo missions, and two were on the Moon and the other was in the command module orbiting the Moon (a slight correction to the question at the top of this page, since the Space Shuttle wasn't developed at the time of the Apollo missions), then who took the picture shown on this page? The photos of the two astronauts doing their work on the Moon's surface were taken by an automatic 16 mm Data Acquisition Camera (DAC), which was mounted on the Lunar module which had brought Armstrong and Aldrin to the Moon
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No they have not. The USSR had 3 programs to explore the moon, L-1, L-3 and Luna, and they were scaled back when it was realized that the Americans would beat them. They had planned a landing for 1968 when some disasterous setbacks made them realize it was not going to be possible. The Americans of course landed in 1969.
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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
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We went to the moon. The simplest answer is usually the correct one, and in this case it's easier to assume that we really went to the moon than there being an international conspiracy involving every nation on Earth lying to say that we never made it to the moon.
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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.