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If you were around in 1959, and told your friends that 10 years from now, we'll be sending men to the moon and bringing them back safely to earth, you would have been laughed at, ridiculed and probably told to see a psychiatrist. (Image: © NASA Johnson) This was considered a fantasy at the time, not too different than saying that in 2029 we're going to visit Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun. Yet on July 20th 1969, that's what happened. Neil Armstrong took Man's first step on the moon on that day. A thousand years from now, when historians look back on the history of mankind, Neil Armstrong's name will likely still be remembered. The moon landing is perhaps man's greatest technological accomplishment, ever in the history of human civilization. The 50-year anniversary of this momentous event is in 2019. and we should celebrate. This is not just a celebration for the United States, the flag of which these three men represented, but ...

For all the celebrations surrounding the first manned lunar landing of Apollo 11 1969 what is forgotten today is just how close they and the other Apollo missions flew to the edge of disaster. Apollo 11 came within seconds of aborting the landing because they had overshot the landing area and we're running low on fuel. This was only one of several issues with the Apollo missions that arose that could have led to the loss of the mission and the crew, though as it turned out only Apollo 13 came close to this actually happening. This does obviously excludes the Apollo one accident where the crew died because of the fire as they rehearsed the launch on January 27th 1967. Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice during the launch and although it knocked out several electrical systems the main navigation systems continue to work and the rest of mission proceeded successfully. On Apollo 16 the engine backup system malfunctioned on the command module as it orbited...

Apollo 11 landing on the moon one thing moon hoaxers loved to point to you as evidence that we didn't actually go to the moon is the flags they all appear to be waving in the non-existent wind on the lunar surface. Well the landings weren't faked and the flags aren't blowing in a mystery wind they were just expertly engineered by NASA scientists. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera images of each Apollo site taken at roughly the same orientation but with different sun angles to show the travel of shadows. Combined with knowledge of the Apollo site maps which show where the flag was erected relative to the Lander, long shadows cast by the flags at three sites - Apollo 12, Apollo 16, and Apollo 17 - show that the these flags are still “flying”, held aloft by the poles. There is no indication of a flag shadow in this Apollo 11 image.(Image: © NASA) The question of how to put an American flag at Apollo 11's landing site was raised about three month...

Was Neil Armstrong Misquoted? “ One Small Step for Man” When Neil Armstrong set his left boot on the surface of the moon on July 21, 1969, becoming the first person to ever walk on the moon. He then spoke some of the most famous words in the history of mankind, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” So true, so brilliant, so inspirational yet…so contradicting? The word “man” and “mankind” are used anonymously, meaning that the oh-so-famous quote quite simply put was, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for man.” Huh? Apollo 11 astronauts trained on Earth to take individual photographs in succession in order to create a series of frames that could be assembled into panoramic images. This frame from Aldrin's panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site is the only good picture of mission commander Neil Armstrong on the lunar surface.  (Image: © NASA) A one-lettered indefinite article is all it would take to turn this qu...

Infinite inspiration, Apollo 11’s greatest task. Of all the major milestones in the continuum of human advancement — mastering fire, inventing the wheel, discovering electricity, harnessing atomic energy, creating the Internet — another that comes to the top of list happened nearly 50 years ago, when astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped down from the Apollo 11 Lunar Module and placed his heavily booted foot on the surface of the Moon. “We choose to go to the Moon and do other things,” President Kennedy announced in 1961, “not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” I was one of the inspired. Growing up, I was captivated by the space shuttle program and the idea that a vehicle could take off, fly into space, then come back, land on Earth like an aircraft, and be reused. I was fascinated by what it would take to design and build something like that and by the people who could fly and operate it. Hundreds of years from now, when humans are liv...