What (simple) experients did the Apollo Astronauts conduct (achieve) during their flight to the moon ?
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While most of the time to and from earth was spent checking systems and so forth, they were able to accomplish a few experiemenst in the cramped quarters of the Apollo capsule during their "coasting" periods between the earth and moon and back.\n\nComposit Casting:\nSeveral compounds were heated, mixed, and then allowed to cool, to check low gravity mixing conditions.\n\nElectrophoretic Separation:\nA number of organic compounds were separated by electrophoresis, to check low gravity separation conditions\n\nHeat Flow and Convection:\nExamination of heat flow rates in fluids in low-gravity\n\nLight Flashes Experiment:\nMany poeple in space experienced flashes of light, both with their eyes open and with them closed.  This device was to test if the hypothesis about them coming from cosmic rays striking, and interacting with the eye were the cause of them.  They were.\n\nLiquid Transfer Demonstration:\nSeveral expirements involving trying to manipulate fluids were performed.\n\nSee Source for details of each experiment (I dislike to copy and paste entire pages unless I personally have written them)
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In addition to the craft listed in the previous answer, the US sent 7 Surveyor spacecraft to the moon to prepare for the manned landings.\nSurveyors 1,3,5,6 and 7 made successful landings and sent data back to earth.  The Apollo 12 mission landed near Surveyor 3 and brought back some parts for examination.
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I’m not sure about movie Apollo 3, but the only way to simulate a zero gravity is a free fall. The free fall can be generated by taking an airplane into a dive. And I’m not kidding. Obviously under these circumstances the experience of zero gravity will last for a few minutes only.\n\nThe simulation of work in space could be done by using buoyancy by submerging astronauts in a pool of water. For more information I would visit NASA site.
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20 July 1969 UT 20:17:40 (04:17:40 p.m. EDT)\n\nNeil A. Armstrong, commander\nMichael Collins, command module pilot\nEdwin E. Aldrin, Jr., lunar module pilot\n\nPS: the mission launched July 16th
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Start your introductory paragraph with a sound effect or a quote and then relate it to space exploration.  Example-  "That's one small step for man and one giant step for mankind."  That's what Niel Armstrong said when he first stepped onto the moon.
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nothing... your car nowadays have a more complicated computer system then that lunar module.  I hope your asking about the first one that land on the moon
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The Mercury Program was first, testing the ability of humans to operate complex machines in space.  Then came the Gemini Program, which tested how two spaceships could rendezvous (come together and dock) and how astronauts could perform spacewalks, both important for landing on the moon.  The Apollo program was next, which after a ground failure and four successful non-moon-landing flights, landed on the moon in 1969.\nThere is another answer to this question, since you're looking for the first stage in THE space program to send Americans to the moon.  There is currently a program called "Constellation", or simply "Exploration", whose first vehicle will be the Crew Exploration Vehicle, or CEV.  This program is designed to take Americans to the moon, and the CEV is the first stage.
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The shuttle can't go to the moon.  It has never been.  It does not have the rocket energy to break the gravitational pull of the earth and reach a speed of approximately 25,000 mph to leave the earth!\n\nThe Apollo spacecraft would leave the earth at a velocity close to 25,000mph  and rapidly lose speed as they approached the moon.  At a precise point in the trajectory, the earth's gravitational field and the moon's would be equal their speed would be about 3000mph, and after that point, the moon began accelerating them toward itself until they fired the rockets and dropped into a lunar orbit!  The journey from Earth to moon using that method, is about 3 days.\n\nBTW, the max speed of the shuttles in LEO (low earth orbit) has probably never exceeded 18,000mph!  A LEO of 100 miles requires a speed of 17,500mph to stay in that LEO.\n\nAnd to the one that said it would take 10 hours, don't plan on being a physics major!  Leaving the earth's gravitational field is like throwing a rock to infinity.  Once it reaches infinity, the speed is zero.  When it leaves the earth it is doing 25,000mph but rapidly loses speed thereafter departing!
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Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the Moon
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Project Gemini was the second human spaceflight program of the United States of America. It operated between Projects Mercury and Apollo, during the years 1963-1966. Its objective was to develop techniques for advanced space travel, notably those necessary for Project Apollo, whose objective was to land men on the Moon. Gemini missions involved extravehicular activity and orbital maneuvers including rendezvous and docking.\n\nDescription \nRole: Orbital spaceflight \nCrew: two; cmd pilot, pilot \nDimensions \nHeight: 18.6 ft 5.67 m \nDiameter: 10 ft 3.05 m \nVolume: 90 ft3 2.55 m3 \nWeights \nTotal: 8,490 lb 3 851 kg \n \nPerformance \nEndurance: 14 days 206 orbits \nApogee: 250 miles 402 km \nPerigee: 100 miles 160 km \nSpacecraft delta v: 728 ft/s 222 m/s \n\n\n \nThe second U.S. manned space program was announced in January 1962. Its two-man crew gave it its name, Gemini, for the third constellation of the Zodiac and its twin stars, Castor and Pollux. Gemini involved 12 flights, including two unmanned flight tests of the equipment.   Like Mercury's, its major objectives were\nclear-cut:\n \n          * To subject man and equipment to space flight\n            up to two weeks in duration;\n \n          * To rendezvous and dock with orbiting vehicles\n            and to maneuver the docked combination by\n            using the target vehicle's propulsion system;\n \n          * To perfect methods of entering the atmosphere\n            and landing at a preselected point on land.\n            Its goals were also met, with the exception\n            of a land landing, which was cancelled in 1964.\n\nTo view details of each mission, click here: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/gemini/flight-summary.txt\n\nBlueprints of the space ships, click here: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/diagrams/gemini.html
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It depends on what you are sending.  The Apollo missions were the last set of *manned* missions to the moon, and here is the travel time:\nLaunched: 16 July 1969 UT 13:32:00 (09:32:00 a.m. EDT)<br />\nLanded on Moon: 20 July 1969 UT 20:17:40 (04:17:40 p.m. EDT)\nIt took about 4 days to get there.  Rocket technology has not change too much since then so you can expect that getting people to the moon at this point would take about the same amount of time.\nIf you are dealing with a non-human payload, you may be able to cut down time, both because it is likely lighter, and because you don't need to worry as much about damaging G-forces.\nI've included a link that has the history of all missions to the moon, manned and unmanned.
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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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Our technology has improved quite a bit since the Apollo program. In particular, computers are able to do the routine chores that required humans back in the late 60's and early 70's. The person up in orbit was there to direct the orbiter to rendevous. This is no longer required.
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I think they did it. A friend of mine directed me to lunaranomalies.com and they had some interesting theories, yet each of these amateur theories were disproved. Look at it this way. In 1969 the americans and the russians were locked in a desperate bid to get into orbit and ultimately the moon. "Journey beyond selene" by Jeffery Kluger brilliantly documented this. The russian premier publicly mocked the americans and their various failures at even hitting the moon with a basic rocket. Enter 1969 and the pictures of Aldrin and Armstrong on the moon. No comment from Russia. They didn't even televise it. If there was even a hint of evidence that it was faked, the russians would have been all over it like a rash. If it was faked they did a really good job. A secret like that could never be kept, and not one reputable scientist has challenged it. All we have are diehard and paranoid lay people looking for attention. If you look up Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin on the net you might find some hilarious footage of the day he left a conference to be accosted by one such person. He knocked him flat with one punch! Hilarious. Selene is the greek word for moon.
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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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Like the others who have responded, Buzz Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon. He was so effected by the experience and also having completed such a long sought after goal that he had to have some emotional guidance from a counselor after his return. I'm not saying that he had a breakdown he just needed help to get his mind all the way around what had happened to him.
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none *in* the moon, but 12 have landed *on* the moon.\n\nsee link below for pix of the famous 12.