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After the Apollo 11 mission, officials from the Soviet Union said landing humans on the Moon was dangerous and unnecessary. At the time the Soviet Union was attempting to retrieve lunar samples robotically. The Soviets publicly denied there was a race to the Moon, and indicated they were not making an attempt. [234]
Launch of AS-506 space vehicle on July 16, 1969, at pad 39A for mission Apollo 11 to land the first men on the Moon. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1]
Wednesday marks the 45th anniversary of what's considered the most significant event in space history. On July 16th, 1969, three Americans launched into space and headed straight for the moon.
This photo was used again in Figure 3-12 in the Apollo 11 Preliminary Science Report, which has the following caption: Hasselblad photograph AS11-40-5877 showing an astronaut's bootprint in the lunar surface. This photo was used again in Figure 4-24 in the Apollo 11 Preliminary Science Report, which has the following caption:
The PSEP was placed 16.8 meters (55 ft) from the Apollo 11 Lunar Module at Tranquility Base on July 21, 1969. [1] A set of 15 different commands could be sent to the experiment package from mission control on Earth to direct the instrument's levelling and calibration motors. [1]
The Apollo 11 real-time site covers the period from 20 hours prior to launch until just after recovery, [9] and includes 11,000 hours of Mission Control audio, 2,000 photographs, mission control and in flight film, and 240 hours of space to ground audio, as well as information on each of the lunar surface samples collected by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. [3]
The Apollo 11 LRRR was deployed on the lunar surface by the Apollo 11 astronaut, Buzz Aldrin, on July 21, 1969. The package was deployed approximately 60 feet (18 m) from Lunar Module Eagle . [ 5 ] Aldrin initially aligned the face of the array in an approximate fashion so that it faced the Earth, with more precise alignment provided by a ...