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More Trips To The Moon
Although the Apollo 11 mission is the best known and most remembered, after July 20, 1969, man has set foot on the Moon five more times. there were more expeditions to the moon like apollo 12,14,16 and 17 -
The apollo 11
Being the first successful trip to the moon, finally achieved the feat that both Americans wanted there were 600 million viewers glued to their screens watching if the trip to the moon was going to be able and everyone listening to that memorable phrase said Neil Armstrong " This is a small step for man and a great leap for humanity "and his boot floor the thin floor of the moon -
The man who spends the longest time on the moon!!!
The man who has walked the longest on the lunar surface is Charles Duke, who was part of the Apollo 16 mission, the second to last manned to reach the moon. To this mission belong the controversial images in which, some presume, a UFO is visualized, although others say that it is probably a reflection. -
Continuous excursions to the moon
Apollo 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 continued the work of apollo 11. During the successive excursions to the moon, the astronauts collected various samples of rocks and explored the mountains of our satellite. from apollo 15 the lunar revolver was used to move, a kind of off-road vehicle with autonomy of 78 hours. The only failed mission was that of apollo 13, since an explosion in the service module forced the crew to abort the landing -
Lucky to go to the moon
In total, there have been 18 lucky astronauts who have arrived on the moon: Neil Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Michael Collins, Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon, Alan L. Bean, Alan B. Shephard, Stuart A. Roosa, Edgar Mitchell, David Scott, James B. Irwin, Alfred Worden, John Young, Thomas Mattingly, Charles Duke, Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt. Although only 12 of them could step on the moon since another astronaut must watch the orbit of the ship and the moon -
The first apollo
Last January 27, 50 years have passed since the failure of the tragedy of Apollo 1 for Nasa. The space race to reach the moon had begun, and Apollo 1 would be the first manned mission to land, however, a fire unforeseen in one of the takeoff tests, ended up suffocating the astronauts who had assigned such an important mission. We had to wait for more tests to reach the moon
