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During Christmas 1968, NASA sent three astronauts in an Apollo capsule all the way to the Moon, where they orbited just 70 miles over the surface, and on Christmas Eve, in a live, prime-time TV...
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Jul 16, 2019 · On the morning of 16 July 1969, astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins blasted off aboard a Saturn 5 rocket, which propelled them out of Earth's gravity.
Apr 17, 2015 · Trans-Earth injection of the CSM began July 21 as the SPS fired for two-and-a-half minutes when Columbia was behind the moon in its 59th hour of lunar orbit. Following this, the astronauts slept for about 10 hours. An 11.2 second firing of the SPS accomplished the only midcourse correction required on the return flight.
The astronauts were lauded at parades across the nation, from New York, to Chicago, to their hometowns, and eventually partook in a world tour. More about welcoming the astronauts home. On July 20, 1969, a human walked on the Moon for the first time. Relive the full journey to and from the the Moon with this timeline.
- Saturn V is still the largest and most powerful rocket ever built. Standing at more than 100m (363ft), the Saturn V rocket burned some 20 tonnes of fuel a second at launch.
- Apollo's crew compartment was about the same size as a large car. Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins spent eight days together travelling about half a million miles to the Moon and back in a space roughly the size of a large car.
- African-American women skilled in maths helped to work out the route to the Moon. In the pre-digital age, Nasa employed a large number of female mathematicians as "human computers".
- No-one knows where the Apollo 11 module is now. A total of 10 lunar modules were sent into space and six landed humans on the moon. NASA. Apollo 11's Lunar Module 'Eagle' begins its descent to the lunar surface.
Jun 24, 2019 · On July 20, 1969, just eight years after President John F. Kennedy threw down the Cold War gauntlet and announced the ambitious goal of “landing a man on the moon...
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Dec 23, 2015 · The three man crew of NASA’s Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean 45 years ago today on July 24, 1969 – successfully concluding Earth’s first journey to land humans on another world...
