How is it that we put man on the moon?
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NASA came up with the idea of wheeled luggage back around 1967, but needed to test it in the weightlessness of space before it could be approved by the FDA and the EPA for consumer use. It was a big hit on the moon. In fact it was Buzz Aldrin who said " One small wheel for luggage, One giant wheel for airline travel" which didn't make the news as much as Neil Armstrong's famous quote. A real shame, cuz Buzz was really the clever one in the group. Anyway, when they got back, wheeled luggage became all the rage.
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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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No, the moon landing was not a hoax.\n\nOn one of the moon landings, the astronauts left a mirror on the surface of the moon which is being used even today to measure the distance between the earth and moon with lasers.\n\nWhat is the point of sending more people there?  We've developed robotics to the point where unmanned probes can go more cost effectively, with lower risk to human life, and they can stay longer.  Take the Mars rovers.  They've been on Mars roaming around for more than a year, collecting samples, taking pictures, measuring the soil and atmosphere.  They don't require food or water.  They don't get lonely for their loved ones.  If the "die", no one will mourn them.  Frankly, it makes little sense to send someone to the Moon (again) or Mars to perform these tasks.\n\nBut, back in the 60's, robotics were not so sophisticated.  Sending a person to do the job made more sense.  A human could control the space craft.  A human could make course corrections.  A human could pick up rocks, put them in a bag, and bring them back.  Yeah, the technology was primitive, but primitive technology has not stopped humans from doing amazing things.
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They are American, and have been on the moon.
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America did not land on the Moon. We payed billions of dollars for the 360 foot Saturn 5 rocket so we could look at it and say wow that is a big rocket. We kept approx. 400,000 technicians, scientists and construction contractors quiet, with zero leaks to the public. The rocks that we thought that came from moon and have proved to be from the moon are really from the Pacific Ocean. \n\nOther Conspiracies to think about: \n\n1. The Jews did not suffer in Germany because there was no Holocaust. Actually it was the Jews that was torturing the poor blond haired deprived Germans. Those tattoos on the Jews arms and hands that are still alive today (by the grace of God) are really there because they want to be hip. \n\n2. We knew the Japanese were going to bomb Pearl Harbor before they did. I mean come-on President Roosevelt liked the thought of our boys baking inside the Battle Ship Arizona before they died. The President was looking for a better way to get a good nights sleep. \n\n3. 9/11 conspiracy: the number of people it would've taken to pull off the largest mass murder in US history could fill one of the towers. Do you think the present administration is competent enough to pull off the largest scam in history? The Watergate and Enron capers were known by a handful of people and the secrets were leaked. So how did the 9/11 keep thousands of people's lips sealed?\n\n4. The Mafia whacked JFK, via the Russian connection, via the Cuban connection. The man on the grassy knoll was a CIA agent acting on orders from Marcello of New Orleans with complicity of the then Boss of Boss Giancana in Chicago. Ruby whacked Oswald to seal the path to the Mafia, he was a two-bit night club owner in Marcello's outfit...true story.\n\n5. Aliens landed in Roswell and we transported them to Area 51 to back engineer their technology, where do you think the stealth air craft came from? Again, we kept it secret by brain washing the thousands of workers who were in on the scam. \n\n6. The Moon we see every night is really not there along with the planets and stars as well the Planet Killing Asteroids. Those were put there by the evil United States to toy with our minds. \n\n7. Fossils of early homosapiens, homoerectus and earlier models were put their by evil paleontologists, athropoligists, and assorted rock hounds looking to enhance their careers, Creation is the real objective reality. \n\n8. America is a conspiracy and is a fake country and none of us Americans really live here. \n\n9. I was never born so this response to your question is a fake.
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land parcels on the moon
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Men landed on moon during the times of space age race between Russia and USA. If it were a fraud, Russia would have been on top of it to bring it up. So, I guess it was confirmed that man really did land on moon and got rock samples back to earth. So i think it really happened. It can't be fraud. Ofcourse there is this talk about pictures taken by astronauts in moon that looks fake and all...but there are equally positive proofs of video and pictures taken on moon too. If you ask me, i think it is real.
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Yes. I believe the original idea was to build a rocket base from which to explore the solar system. But somebody realised the same thing could be done from Earth via an orbiting space station for a fraction of the cost.\nThe only other reasons for going to the moon were - \n1. To stop the Russians setting up a military base there.\n2. To collect moon rocks.\nWhen the US realised that a Russian moon base wasn't practical, and they had souvenired as many moon rocks as they were ever likely to need, they never bothered to go back.
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It looks like China will be the next nation to land people on the moon.\n\nThe Russians landed a vehicle called a Lunokhod there once.\n\nIf you Google 'Lunokhod' you may find some details about it.\n\nIt took the USA only a few years to go from earth orbital flight to landing men on the moon.\n\nChina is already successful with people in orbit around the earth (recently).  So, if we suppose they take about the same time for working on their man-to-the-moon project, they should be there by 2016 or so.\n\nHowever, once one group has done something, it is usually easier for the next one.  So, the Chinese might be there by 2010.\n\nIf I had to take a guess, I would say 2012.\n\nI don't think they are rushing, they are very patient about things.  Rushing increase the dangers.\n\nThey may wish to do 'more' than just copying our previous visits.  In that case, 2012--2016 is still likely, but it will be later depending on what they are planning.\n\nThey may change their minds and send only remote-control devices.  But it is pretty sure they will do at least that.
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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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It is very technically feasible for humans to be able to live on another world. If we went ahead today we could have a pretty selfsustaining base on the moon in 20-30 years. \n\nMany aspects needs to be resolved and they are more biological than technical. Can we grow all the food we need on a body with a different gravitational field than Earths? Everything on Earth has evolved constantly exposed to earths gravity. We can grow simple plants on the ISS but the humans aboard will suffer dangerous health issues when exposed to longterm microgravity. What would these effects be on the moon? Less, probably, but will they still be there? And how will more complex plants fare on the moon? What about food that isn´t from plants at all? Can chickens and fish be produced on the moon? Will it be necessary for humans in space to be vegetarians since a Big Mac will be worth its weight in gold?\n\nHow long for a colony on another planet to be completely independent of Earth? I would say centuries if ever. Because how many nations are completely self reliant here on earth? Every nation imports and exports something. We are dependent of trade. Will there be such a thing between planets?\nEconomy is the most important factor in manned space exploration. If it hadn´t been for the Vietnam war we would have built the first permanently manned bases on the moon in the eighties. The war ended up costing 6 times as much as the Apollo programme. No wonder it got cancelled...
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The moon must do because it has an "oo" in the middle.  Anyone that can't see the science behind this might not be prepared to worship you as Pope but there are plenty that will if you say so your eminencey.\n\nOmindumb for Pope!\nOmindumb for Pope!\nOmindumb for Pope!
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Actually, no, we haven't done it since the original six landings.  The last one was Apollo 17 in 1972, and since then, we haven't sent a manned mission back to the moon.
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First, everything we knew about the Moon's surface came from looking at it with the naked eye.\n\nNext, we looked at the Moon with telescopes.\n\nThen we sent unmanned landers to the Moon to better study its surface\n\nFinally, men went to the Moon.\n\nGod is spelled B-I-G B-A-N-G\nPBrax@netscape.com
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NASA plans to send astronauts to the moon by 2020.  NASA sent nine manned missions to the Moon between 1968 and 1972. A total of 12 men walked on the lunar surface.  If you ask me, I'm not sure if they have ever been up there to begin with.  They say it takes them so long now to get "back" because the project would cost over 100 Billion Dollars. The new missions would use rocket technology already employed on the space shuttle to cut the costs of development. Dr Griffin from NASA said the new rockets would be "very Apollo-like, with updated technology. Think of it as Apollo on steroids."
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Because the US has landed people on the moon........ in the 60s I believe........ do your research.
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Because we really did land on the Moon.