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Random facts about the moon mission Saturday, July 18, 2009 Facts about Apollo 11 mission The Apollo 11 mission statement: ‘Perform a manned lunar landing and return.’ Apollo 11 launched July 16 from Kennedy Space Center and returned to the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969. A three-stage, 33-story Saturn V rocket put Apollo 11 into Earth’s orbit in 12 minutes. The command module was named Columbia, the landing craft Eagle. The computing power of the spacecraft was less than that of the average cell phone today. The lunar lander ladder had nine steps. The bottom step was 3.5 feet above the moon’s surface. The Apollo 11 astronauts walked on the moon for 2 hours and 31 minutes. President Richard Nixon called the astronauts from an Oval Office telephone during the moonwalk. The astronauts were on the moon for 21 hours and 38 minutes. The suits worn by the astronauts weighed 360 pounds on Earth, 60 pounds on the moon. Apollo 11 left the first litter on the moon, a bag of empty food packages a
This month marks the 40th anniversary of humankind’s first steps on the moon. Auspiciously timed is Craig Nelson’s new book, Rocket Men–one of the most detailed accounts of the period leading up to the first manned moon mission. Here, we have ten little-known Apollo 11 facts unearthed by Nelson during his research. 1. The Apollo’s Saturn rockets were packed with enough fuel to throw 100-pound shrapnel three miles, and NASA couldn’t rule out the possibility that they might explode on takeoff. NASA seated its VIP spectators three and a half miles from the launchpad. 2. The Apollo computers had less processing power than a cellphone. 3. Drinking water was a fuel-cell by-product, but Apollo 11’s hydrogen-gas filters didn’t work, making every drink bubbly. Urinating and defecating in zero gravity, meanwhile, had not been figured out; the latter was so troublesome that at least one astronaut spent his entire mission on an anti-diarrhea drug to avoid it. 4. When Apollo 11’s lunar lander, the
Random facts about the moon mission Saturday, July 18, 2009 Facts about Apollo 11 mission The Apollo 11 mission statement: ‘Perform a manned lunar landing and return.’ Apollo 11 launched July 16 from Kennedy Space Center and returned to the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969. A three-stage, 33-story Saturn V rocket put Apollo 11 into Earth’s orbit in 12 minutes. The command module was named Columbia, the landing craft Eagle. The computing power of the spacecraft was less than that of the average cell phone today. The lunar lander ladder had nine steps. The bottom step was 3.5 feet above the moon’s surface. The Apollo 11 astronauts walked on the moon for 2 hours and 31 minutes. President Richard Nixon called the astronauts from an Oval Office telephone during the moonwalk. The astronauts were on the moon for 21 hours and 38 minutes. The suits worn by the astronauts weighed 360 pounds on Earth, 60 pounds on the moon. Apollo 11 left the first litter on the moon, a bag of empty food packages a
The Apollo 11 mission statement: ‘Perform a manned lunar landing and return.’ Apollo 11 launched July 16 from Kennedy Space Center and returned to the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969. A three-stage, 33-story Saturn V rocket put Apollo 11 into Earth’s orbit in 12 minutes. The command module was named Columbia, the landing craft Eagle. The computing power of the spacecraft was less than that of the average cell phone today. The lunar lander ladder had nine steps. The bottom step was 3.5 feet above the moon’s surface. The Apollo 11 astronauts walked on the moon for 2 hours and 31 minutes. President Richard Nixon called the astronauts from an Oval Office telephone during the moonwalk. The astronauts were on the moon for 21 hours and 38 minutes.
