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The Moon Landing

The Moon Landing. LO: To learn about the Moon Landing. The Space Race. During the 1960s there was a race between the USA and the former Soviet Union to put a man on the moon. The first person in space was the Russian Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin. He was sent up in Vostok 1 on April

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The Moon Landing

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  1. The Moon Landing

  2. LO: To learn about the Moon Landing

  3. The Space Race During the 1960s there was a race between the USA and the former Soviet Union to put a man on the moon. • The first person in • space was the • Russian Cosmonaut, • Yuri Gagarin. He • was sent up in • Vostok 1 on April • 12, 1961 for a 108 • minute flight.

  4. 1969 On July 20, 1969, the human race accomplished its single greatest technological achievement of all time when a human first set foot on another celestial body. Six hours after landing at 4:17 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (with less than 30 seconds of fuel remaining), Neil A. Armstrong took the “Small Step” into our greater future when he stepped off the Lunar Module, named “Eagle,” onto the surface of the Moon. He was shortly joined by “Buzz” Aldrin, and the two astronauts spent 21 hours on the lunar surface and returned 46 pounds of lunar rocks. After their historic walks on the Moon, they successfully docked with the Command Module “Columbia,” in which Michael Collins was patiently orbiting the cold but no longer lifeless Moon.

  5. Apollo 11 Apollo 11 was the spaceflight which landed the first humans, Neil Armstrong and Edwin ‘Buzz’ AldrinJr on Earth’s Moon on July 20, 1969. Using the knowledge gained from the previous Apollo missions, NASA decided the Apollo 11 crew would try for a moon landing. Three days after launching from Earth, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin flew the Lunar Module down to the moon's surface.

  6. Apollo 11 The world listened as the astronauts struggled to find a suitable site to land the lunar module (the part of Apollo 11 that landed, also known as the Eagle). Mission commander Neil Armstrong struggled to find a flat landing site. He succeeded with just seconds to spare. When they touched down, their instruments reported that they had only about 20 seconds worth of fuel left! The Lunar Module carried cameras that allowed Apollo 11 to broadcast TV pictures of the astronauts stepping down onto the surface of the moon, and 600 million people around the world tuned in to watch this historic moment. On this first visit to the moon, the astronauts spent less than three hours exploring. They had to learn as much as they could - they even tried out different ways to move on the moon, to see what would work best. Buzz even tried kangaroo hopping to see if that would be easier than walking!

  7. Men on the Moon Armstrong and Aldrin spend almost 22 hours on the Moon. About 2.5 hours of this was spent outside the Eagle, collecting rock and soil samples, setting up experiments, and taking pictures.

  8. What was it like? Buzz Aldrin described the Moon’s surface as like nothing on Earth. He said it consisted of of a fine, talcum powder like dust, strewn with pebbles and rocks. Instead of the moon rising, the astronauts saw Earth rising over the Moon’s horizon – it looked four times bigger than Moon looks from Earth.

  9. There is no air, rain or wind on the Moon, so nothing disturbs the footprints left by the astronauts. The Moon buggies stand where they were left. An American flag was left on the moon's surface as a reminder of the accomplishment

  10. Quotes Astronaut Neil Armstrong’s First words on the Moon were: “ That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. "Here Men From The Planet Earth First Set Foot Upon the Moon, July 1969 A.D. We Came in Peace For All Mankind." The inscription on a plaque left behind on the surface of the Moon after the astronauts departed. • "Hello Neil and Buzz. I'm talking to you by telephone from the Oval room at the White House, and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made. I just cannot tell you how proud we all are of what you have done. For every American, this has to be the proudest day of their lives." President Richard Nixoncongratulates the astronauts on being the first men to walk on the Moon

  11. Quotes "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." Neil Armstrongtells Nasa's Mission Control base in Texas that the Eagle landing module has reached the Moon's surface on July 20, 1963 "Roger, Tranquility, we copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue here. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot!" Capsule Commander Charles Dukeexpresses the relief of Mission Control after nerves were tested during an unexpectedly complicated descent to the Moon.

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