The Land on the MoonEssay Preview: The Land on the MoonReport this essayTeam MoonTeam Moon was written by Catherine Thimmesh. Team Moon is a non-fiction book. It contains 90 pages. This book explains the history of the Apollo program.
On May 25, 1961, John F. Kennedy said, “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieve the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth”
The race to the Moon was the Apollo program. Engineers designed a spacecraft with three pieces that worked together, the command module, the lunar module and the service module. They also needed a rocket to push the spacecraft to the moon. This was called the Saturn V rocket. This launched Apollo 11. Engineers also designed special suits. They designed special suits to keep the astronauts body temperatures and air pressure; it gave them oxygen to breathe. The mission control was located at the Kennedy Space Center. It was manned by four teams of flight controllers.
NASA chose the crew for Apollo 11. The three Astronauts were Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. All Astronauts were expected to be mentally, physically and technically prepared for the mission. Neil Armstrong commanded the mission. He was the pilot of the lunar module, called the Eagle. Buzz Aldrin would fly with Neil Armstrong in the lunar and would monitor the system and helping him as he flew. Michael Collins was the pilot of the command module, called the Columbia. If anything went wrong with the lunar would save Armstrong, and Aldrin.
On July 16, 1969 about one million people watched from the beaches of Cape Kennedy as Apollo 11 was launched and millions watched around the world on television. It took three days to get to the moon. Apollo 11 started to orbit the moon on July 19. The astronauts had freeze-dried meals, they had sliced bread and cold drinks and coffee and snacks. They slept strapped into one of the reclining seats. They used sleeping bags. They also used special bags to go to the restrooms. They also could shave.
With only seven seconds of fuel the Eagle made a soft landing. Neil Armstrong said his famous words on the Moon, “Thats one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.” After a few hours the astronauts came out. Armstrong and Aldrinss moonwalk lasted about two hours. They collected rocks, set up various scientific experiments they installed a better television camera, and the left some mementos. They planted a U.S. flag on the moons surface. Liftoff from the moon was complete. Armstrong and Aldrin steered the Eagle into orbit around the moon and caught up with Columbia. The astronauts reboarded Columbia, they fired the engine that would take them home. Apollo 11 finished its eight day journey landing in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969.
The astronauts from the Eagle Moon Crew was sent to a small but important base on the Pacific side of America, called “The Lunar Landing Site,” (LP3), to be built and operated for lunar exploration. There it was built between April 20, 1971 and May 1, 1973. The base was located the northernmost tip of the moon, about 930 miles at its southwest center from the southern poles. Armstrong told the New York Times he didn’t know what was at the site. The Apollo 17 crew, his sons Andrew, Neil, Buzz, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and John Ellingworth were the only Americans. There were about 50 people in the area, including the crew members of the Apollo 13 mission, including his son and three sons. It was named after the American military commander, who helped find the site and set it up on the moon in 1969. The base was not a single craft, but the astronauts in it were all of the same size. It was a place called “The Moon’s Landing Site,” (LNT5) or to that effect, where Armstrong, Aldrin and Neil Aldrin might have landed from the start to the end of the Apollo 16 mission, and where the lunar rocks would be collected. It was nicknamed, the “Landing Site,” (MNT7). The Base was used as a landing site during the night by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRON) during lunar month of October (1969). It was known to NASA as AAF, “All Aboard,” although it also had an altitude of 12,400 feet (“the surface of Mars”) over a 4 day period. During its six day mission, the lander used an upper stage to land and land at 10,500 feet over a 24-hour period. The Base was manned by four crew members. First astronauts: Aldrin, Neil, Buzz Aldrin, and John Ellingworth. Neil, Buzz, and Aldrin were all on their third and fourth stages. When they finally landed on the moon, Neil and Buzz Aldrin were already on board. When two more humans landed, NASA decided to add another stage to the base to carry a load of debris from the moon. The new stage consisted of a six inch high, 1,000 gallon tank “drip bucket” with a six gallon diameter vacuum at the top. The tank contained some 1,000 tons of lunar debris. It took 11 hours to collect about 15 percent of the lunar rocks from the bottom into the ground. On the fifth ascent, Aldrin came on stage 2- to 2,000 feet above the surface. This stage was manned by the four crew; John Ellingworth was the third, and Neil the fourth. A first attempt to fly the base landed on November 22, 1971, but it was too late as the new rocket booster failed. The Apollo 16 program ended in December of 1969. Apollo 16 was actually successfully launched
Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins were placed in biological isolation suits.