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"We choose to go the Moon"
- President John F. Kennedy threw down the gauntlet during his historic speech at Rice University on September 12, 1962, when he reiterated what he'd said the previous year when he stood before Congress and declared, "...I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."
© Getty Images
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First Moon landing
- On July 20, 1969, commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle on the Moon. Armstrong became the first human being to walk on the lunar surface.
© Getty Images
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Final Moon landing
- Apollo 17 was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program and took place over December 7–19, 1972.
© Public Domain
3 / 33 Fotos
What did we learn from landing on the Moon?
- In all, there were six crewed US landings between 1969 and 1972. Twelve people walked on the Moon, all of them American men. But how did the Moon missions change our world, and what did we learn?
© Getty Images
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The first perspective of the Earth from space
- The Apollo missions gave us the first perspective of the Earth from space. Apollo 8 was the first crewed spacecraft to reach the Moon, orbiting the natural satellite without landing. On December 24, 1968, crewmember Bill Anders took this iconic photograph of the Earth rising above the lunar surface, an image that became known as "Earthrise."
© Public Domain
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The Space Race
- Kennedy's challenge was as much about beating the Russians to the Moon as it was about furthering our knowledge of the universe. On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to journey into outer space. The Space Race was on!
© Getty Images
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An unknown quantity
- Much of the technology needed to get to the lunar surface and return didn't exist at the time of the US president's visionary 1962 speech. And much was unknown.
© Getty Images
7 / 33 Fotos
New technologies
- But had scientists not continued to explore space, many of the technologies that are taken for granted today we simply wouldn't have, things like weather and communication satellites, medical imaging devices, fire-resistant materials used in firefighting, shock-absorbing materials used in helmets, and even joystick gaming control units.
© Getty Images
8 / 33 Fotos
Development of the digital computer
- The Apollo program was guided by a digital computer. As a result of that nascent technology, in the 1970s NASA successfully launched the first plane flown digitally, where a computer collected all of the input from the pilot's controls and then used that information to command aerodynamic surfaces. Today, so-called digital fly-by-wire systems are standard in aviation.
© Getty Images
9 / 33 Fotos
A unifying role
- Kennedy often pushed the message of global unity. His successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, saw the advance of American scientific technology as a means of addressing the civil rights issues. NASA had in place a policy to actively recruit African Americans into the space program. A team of African-American women including Katherine Johnson (pictured), Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson played a crucial role in the development of the Saturn V rocket.
© Getty Images
10 / 33 Fotos
Making prepackaged foods safer
- Apollo astronauts took with them prepackaged foods for their time in space. To ensure the safety of such perishables, NASA created a new, systematic approach to quality control. This method today is known as Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points, an industry standard that benefits consumers worldwide by keeping food free from a wide range of potential hazards. Included here are chicken and vegetables, beef hash, and beef and gravy.
© Getty Images
11 / 33 Fotos
Invention of "space blankets"
- "Space blankets," the thermal sheets found in emergency kits and handed out to exhausted runners at the end of marathons, are derived from the reflective, multi-layered lightweight mylar used in just about every NASA spacecraft and spacesuit since its creation. The material is also found in clothing and firefighting gear, and building insulation.
© Getty Images
12 / 33 Fotos
Earthquake-proof technology
- The huge arms that swung away from Apollo's Saturn V rocket during launch incorporated shock isolation technology that today protects buildings and bridges around the world from earthquakes.
© Getty Images
13 / 33 Fotos
Rechargeable hearing aid batteries
- The command module that went to the Moon used silver-zinc batteries. But NASA also wanted to make the cells rechargeable—a goal that wasn't achieved during the Apollo program. Decades later, however, the technology the agency developed was employed in the world's first practical rechargeable hearing aid batteries, which debuted in 2013.
© Shutterstock
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Exploring beyond the Moon
- Nearly coincident with the Apollo program was the advance of robotic missions to explore other parts of the solar system. Mars and Venus had already been investigated during the early 1960s. But within a few years of Apollo 11, NASA had launched spacecraft to fly by Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn. The field of planetary science had well and truly taken off.
© Getty Images
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Apollo's geological discoveries
- During the Apollo exploration of the Moon, NASA scientists were able to deduce that is was not a primordial object; it was an evolved terrestrial planet with internal zoning similar to that of Earth.
© Getty Images
16 / 33 Fotos
Understanding geologic evolution
- Before Apollo, the origin of lunar impact craters was not fully understood and the origin of similar craters on Earth was highly debated. But the calibration of meteorite craters using rock samples collected by astronauts provided a key for unraveling time scales for the geologic evolution of our own planet, plus that of Mercury, Venus, and Mars.
© Getty Images
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Rocks of ages
- It was discovered that the youngest Moon rocks are virtually as old as the oldest Earth rocks. Moon rock ages range from about 3.2 billion years to 4.6 billion years. Pictured is Harrison H Schmitt examining a huge split boulder on the lunar surface during the Apollo 17 mission.
© Getty Images
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High-temperature processes
- NASA scientists realized that all Moon rocks originated through high-temperature processes with little or no involvement with water (hence no life forms). Moon rocks are roughly divisible into three types: basalts, anorthosites, and breccias.
© Getty Images
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The Genesis Rock
- A major find during the Apollo 15 mission was the retrieval by astronauts James Irwin and David Scott of a sample of Moon rock (sample 15415, in fact) that became known as the Genesis Rock. An anorthosite, or crust material, it was formed in the early stages of the solar system, at least four billion years ago. Naming the sample the Genesis Rock gave it a powerful connection to the wider human project of understanding creation.
© Public Domain
20 / 33 Fotos
The Moon and the Earth
- It was concluded that the Moon and the Earth are genetically related. In other words, compositions of Moon rocks and Earth rocks clearly show common ancestry. Pictured is a satellite image showing the far side of the Moon as it crosses between the DSCOVR spacecraft and our planet.
© Getty Images
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Devoid of life
- We now know that the Moon is lifeless. Extensive testing during the Apollo era revealed no evidence for life. Our nearest natural satellite contains no living organisms, fossils, or native organic compounds.
© Public Domain
22 / 33 Fotos
An ocean of magma
- Here's an interesting fact: early in its history, the Moon was melted to great depths to form a "magma ocean." We know this because the lunar highlands (pictured) contain the remnants of early, low density rocks that floated to the surface of this semi-molten sea.
© Getty Images
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The impact of asteroids
- The lunar magma ocean was followed by a series of huge asteroid impacts that created basins that were later filled by lava flows. Pictured is Schmidt crater in the lunar highlands.
© Getty Images
24 / 33 Fotos
A dead sea
- Mare Imbrium is a vast lava plain, a long dead magma ocean, and one of the largest craters in the solar system.
© Getty Images
25 / 33 Fotos
Asymmetrical in shape
- Unlike Earth, the Moon is slightly asymmetrical in bulk form, possibly as a consequence of its evolution under Earth's gravitational influence. Furthermore, its crust is thicker on the far side, while most volcanic basins occur on the near side.
© Getty Images
26 / 33 Fotos
The Moon landings and climate change
- The Moon's surface is blanketed by a rubble of rock fragments and dust, called the lunar regolith. This cosmic detritus contains a unique radiation history of the Sun that is of importance to understanding climate changes on Earth.
© Getty Images
27 / 33 Fotos
Galileo was right!
- Apollo 15 commander David Scott carried out a televised experiment on the Moon's surface to test Galileo's law of motion concerning falling bodies. He did this by dropping a feather and a geological hammer at the same time. Both landed on the lunar surface at the same instant.
© Getty Images
28 / 33 Fotos
The religious significance of the Moon landings
- Traveling into space took on a religious meaning for John Glenn—the first American to orbit Earth—when he said that he felt that wherever such exploration would bring man, God would certainly be there. After landing on the Moon, Buzz Aldrin (pictured) took Holy Communion—the first Christian sacrament ever performed on the lunar surface.
© Getty Images
29 / 33 Fotos
Born-again Christian
- Apollo 15 astronaut James Irwin was a lapsed Christian but was born again after his experience walking on the Moon.
© Getty Images
30 / 33 Fotos
The agnostic astronaut
- Apollo 16's John Young, however, was unmoved religiously by his experience. Interviewed back on Earth, the astronaut was asked whether he'd discovered God up there. "No. I don't think so." Asked why not, Young replied: "Because I think that the way things are in space are the way they are and I think that's a good thing. I think that if people have to go into space to discover God, they have some other kind of problem."
© Getty Images
31 / 33 Fotos
Moon landing legacy
- Apollo's legacy is hugely significant. But perhaps most important of all, thanks to watching astronauts walk on the Moon, numerous children around the world were inspired to become scientists, engineers, or astronomers. Sources: (NASA) (ScienceDirect) (America Magazine) (State of the Planet)
© Getty Images
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© Reuters
0 / 33 Fotos
"We choose to go the Moon"
- President John F. Kennedy threw down the gauntlet during his historic speech at Rice University on September 12, 1962, when he reiterated what he'd said the previous year when he stood before Congress and declared, "...I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."
© Getty Images
1 / 33 Fotos
First Moon landing
- On July 20, 1969, commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle on the Moon. Armstrong became the first human being to walk on the lunar surface.
© Getty Images
2 / 33 Fotos
Final Moon landing
- Apollo 17 was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program and took place over December 7–19, 1972.
© Public Domain
3 / 33 Fotos
What did we learn from landing on the Moon?
- In all, there were six crewed US landings between 1969 and 1972. Twelve people walked on the Moon, all of them American men. But how did the Moon missions change our world, and what did we learn?
© Getty Images
4 / 33 Fotos
The first perspective of the Earth from space
- The Apollo missions gave us the first perspective of the Earth from space. Apollo 8 was the first crewed spacecraft to reach the Moon, orbiting the natural satellite without landing. On December 24, 1968, crewmember Bill Anders took this iconic photograph of the Earth rising above the lunar surface, an image that became known as "Earthrise."
© Public Domain
5 / 33 Fotos
The Space Race
- Kennedy's challenge was as much about beating the Russians to the Moon as it was about furthering our knowledge of the universe. On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to journey into outer space. The Space Race was on!
© Getty Images
6 / 33 Fotos
An unknown quantity
- Much of the technology needed to get to the lunar surface and return didn't exist at the time of the US president's visionary 1962 speech. And much was unknown.
© Getty Images
7 / 33 Fotos
New technologies
- But had scientists not continued to explore space, many of the technologies that are taken for granted today we simply wouldn't have, things like weather and communication satellites, medical imaging devices, fire-resistant materials used in firefighting, shock-absorbing materials used in helmets, and even joystick gaming control units.
© Getty Images
8 / 33 Fotos
Development of the digital computer
- The Apollo program was guided by a digital computer. As a result of that nascent technology, in the 1970s NASA successfully launched the first plane flown digitally, where a computer collected all of the input from the pilot's controls and then used that information to command aerodynamic surfaces. Today, so-called digital fly-by-wire systems are standard in aviation.
© Getty Images
9 / 33 Fotos
A unifying role
- Kennedy often pushed the message of global unity. His successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, saw the advance of American scientific technology as a means of addressing the civil rights issues. NASA had in place a policy to actively recruit African Americans into the space program. A team of African-American women including Katherine Johnson (pictured), Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson played a crucial role in the development of the Saturn V rocket.
© Getty Images
10 / 33 Fotos
Making prepackaged foods safer
- Apollo astronauts took with them prepackaged foods for their time in space. To ensure the safety of such perishables, NASA created a new, systematic approach to quality control. This method today is known as Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points, an industry standard that benefits consumers worldwide by keeping food free from a wide range of potential hazards. Included here are chicken and vegetables, beef hash, and beef and gravy.
© Getty Images
11 / 33 Fotos
Invention of "space blankets"
- "Space blankets," the thermal sheets found in emergency kits and handed out to exhausted runners at the end of marathons, are derived from the reflective, multi-layered lightweight mylar used in just about every NASA spacecraft and spacesuit since its creation. The material is also found in clothing and firefighting gear, and building insulation.
© Getty Images
12 / 33 Fotos
Earthquake-proof technology
- The huge arms that swung away from Apollo's Saturn V rocket during launch incorporated shock isolation technology that today protects buildings and bridges around the world from earthquakes.
© Getty Images
13 / 33 Fotos
Rechargeable hearing aid batteries
- The command module that went to the Moon used silver-zinc batteries. But NASA also wanted to make the cells rechargeable—a goal that wasn't achieved during the Apollo program. Decades later, however, the technology the agency developed was employed in the world's first practical rechargeable hearing aid batteries, which debuted in 2013.
© Shutterstock
14 / 33 Fotos
Exploring beyond the Moon
- Nearly coincident with the Apollo program was the advance of robotic missions to explore other parts of the solar system. Mars and Venus had already been investigated during the early 1960s. But within a few years of Apollo 11, NASA had launched spacecraft to fly by Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn. The field of planetary science had well and truly taken off.
© Getty Images
15 / 33 Fotos
Apollo's geological discoveries
- During the Apollo exploration of the Moon, NASA scientists were able to deduce that is was not a primordial object; it was an evolved terrestrial planet with internal zoning similar to that of Earth.
© Getty Images
16 / 33 Fotos
Understanding geologic evolution
- Before Apollo, the origin of lunar impact craters was not fully understood and the origin of similar craters on Earth was highly debated. But the calibration of meteorite craters using rock samples collected by astronauts provided a key for unraveling time scales for the geologic evolution of our own planet, plus that of Mercury, Venus, and Mars.
© Getty Images
17 / 33 Fotos
Rocks of ages
- It was discovered that the youngest Moon rocks are virtually as old as the oldest Earth rocks. Moon rock ages range from about 3.2 billion years to 4.6 billion years. Pictured is Harrison H Schmitt examining a huge split boulder on the lunar surface during the Apollo 17 mission.
© Getty Images
18 / 33 Fotos
High-temperature processes
- NASA scientists realized that all Moon rocks originated through high-temperature processes with little or no involvement with water (hence no life forms). Moon rocks are roughly divisible into three types: basalts, anorthosites, and breccias.
© Getty Images
19 / 33 Fotos
The Genesis Rock
- A major find during the Apollo 15 mission was the retrieval by astronauts James Irwin and David Scott of a sample of Moon rock (sample 15415, in fact) that became known as the Genesis Rock. An anorthosite, or crust material, it was formed in the early stages of the solar system, at least four billion years ago. Naming the sample the Genesis Rock gave it a powerful connection to the wider human project of understanding creation.
© Public Domain
20 / 33 Fotos
The Moon and the Earth
- It was concluded that the Moon and the Earth are genetically related. In other words, compositions of Moon rocks and Earth rocks clearly show common ancestry. Pictured is a satellite image showing the far side of the Moon as it crosses between the DSCOVR spacecraft and our planet.
© Getty Images
21 / 33 Fotos
Devoid of life
- We now know that the Moon is lifeless. Extensive testing during the Apollo era revealed no evidence for life. Our nearest natural satellite contains no living organisms, fossils, or native organic compounds.
© Public Domain
22 / 33 Fotos
An ocean of magma
- Here's an interesting fact: early in its history, the Moon was melted to great depths to form a "magma ocean." We know this because the lunar highlands (pictured) contain the remnants of early, low density rocks that floated to the surface of this semi-molten sea.
© Getty Images
23 / 33 Fotos
The impact of asteroids
- The lunar magma ocean was followed by a series of huge asteroid impacts that created basins that were later filled by lava flows. Pictured is Schmidt crater in the lunar highlands.
© Getty Images
24 / 33 Fotos
A dead sea
- Mare Imbrium is a vast lava plain, a long dead magma ocean, and one of the largest craters in the solar system.
© Getty Images
25 / 33 Fotos
Asymmetrical in shape
- Unlike Earth, the Moon is slightly asymmetrical in bulk form, possibly as a consequence of its evolution under Earth's gravitational influence. Furthermore, its crust is thicker on the far side, while most volcanic basins occur on the near side.
© Getty Images
26 / 33 Fotos
The Moon landings and climate change
- The Moon's surface is blanketed by a rubble of rock fragments and dust, called the lunar regolith. This cosmic detritus contains a unique radiation history of the Sun that is of importance to understanding climate changes on Earth.
© Getty Images
27 / 33 Fotos
Galileo was right!
- Apollo 15 commander David Scott carried out a televised experiment on the Moon's surface to test Galileo's law of motion concerning falling bodies. He did this by dropping a feather and a geological hammer at the same time. Both landed on the lunar surface at the same instant.
© Getty Images
28 / 33 Fotos
The religious significance of the Moon landings
- Traveling into space took on a religious meaning for John Glenn—the first American to orbit Earth—when he said that he felt that wherever such exploration would bring man, God would certainly be there. After landing on the Moon, Buzz Aldrin (pictured) took Holy Communion—the first Christian sacrament ever performed on the lunar surface.
© Getty Images
29 / 33 Fotos
Born-again Christian
- Apollo 15 astronaut James Irwin was a lapsed Christian but was born again after his experience walking on the Moon.
© Getty Images
30 / 33 Fotos
The agnostic astronaut
- Apollo 16's John Young, however, was unmoved religiously by his experience. Interviewed back on Earth, the astronaut was asked whether he'd discovered God up there. "No. I don't think so." Asked why not, Young replied: "Because I think that the way things are in space are the way they are and I think that's a good thing. I think that if people have to go into space to discover God, they have some other kind of problem."
© Getty Images
31 / 33 Fotos
Moon landing legacy
- Apollo's legacy is hugely significant. But perhaps most important of all, thanks to watching astronauts walk on the Moon, numerous children around the world were inspired to become scientists, engineers, or astronomers. Sources: (NASA) (ScienceDirect) (America Magazine) (State of the Planet)
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What did going to the Moon achieve, really?
An American spacecraft has landed on the moon for the first time in over 50 years
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July 20, 1969, was without a doubt a monumental moment in human history–the landing of the first human beings on the surface of the Moon. In 1972, the final mission of NASA's Apollo program touched down on the lunar surface. Apollo revolutionized and accelerated space technology along with our ability to live and work in space. But what else did these epic voyages beyond our own planet achieve?
While the Space Race pretty much ended with the conclusion of the Apollo program, interest in lunar exploration did not. Over the decades there have been fewer attempts to put human beings on the moon's surface, but many attempts to develop technology that will allow us to further understand and explore the moon.
American aerospace company Intuitive Machines successfully performed a historic moon landing on Thursday, Feb. 22. Their unmanned M-1 lander, named Odyssey or “Odie” for short, became the first commercial spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. It was also the first American-made aircraft to land on the moon since the Apollo mission over 50 years ago.
Intuitive Machines is collaborating with NASA in the development of Odyssey, as the government agency intends to buy their landers to scout the moon in preparation for their next manned mission. NASA will send astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972 through the Artemis program. They intend to carry out this mission by the end of the decade. “Today for the first time in more than a half-century, the US has returned to the moon,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “Today is a day that shows the power and promise of NASA’s commercial partnerships.”
Click through and find out how Moon missions changed our modern world.
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