MAN IN THE MOON
Autor: Glaucia Maria Guimarães Quadros | Publicado: 2009-04-18T17:24:00-07:00


MAN IN THE MOON
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Man on the Moon 


The first step on the Moon was a size 41 foot. This was the number of the boot of the blue astronaut Neil Armstrong, then 38 years, the first man to fall in lunar soil, on July 20, 1969, to 23h56min31 (hora de Brasília). The step was taken with the left foot.
When he stepped on the Moon, with heart beating 156 times a minute, Neil Armstrong said the famous sentence: "This is a small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." It is estimated that 1.2 billion people watching on TV this time around the world.
Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, the second astronaut to step on the Moon, finca there a metal U.S. flag and placed a plaque near the leg of the lunar module, signed by the astronauts and the U.S. president Richard Nixon: "Here men the planet Earth first set foot on the Moon July 1969 AD We came in peace on behalf of all humanity. "
Decline in the lunar soil, Eldwin Aldrin felt a tremendous desire to pee. And did: in the suit, reinforced with 21 layers of tissue, had a bag to collect the liquid.
During the 2 hours and 10 minutes remaining in the Sea of Tranquility, the plain chosen for the moon landing, the astronauts installed a seismograph, a laser beam reflector, an antenna for communication, a panel aluminizado (to shield from solar radiation) and a TV camera. Collected 27 samples of rocks and dust.
At the Museum of Air and Space in Washington, is an exposed rock of the Moon, that visitors can touch.
On Earth, the backpack and the astronauts space suit weighed 86 pounds. But on the Moon, the weight was 14 kilos, because the force of gravity, which makes it 6 times lighter than on Earth. As the Moon is smaller than the Earth, the force of gravity is also lower. Once the bodies are drawn with less force to the lunar surface.
The Apollo project consumed 50 billion dollars. The Apollo I also exploded in the launching platform, killing its 3 crew in 1967. NASA canceled the 2 tasks following and started to do without men on board flights. Only in the Apollo VII astronauts return to space.
The Apollo XI left the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, on July 16, at 9:32 a.m.. The Saturn rocket carrying the Apollo XI, bringing together the lunar module (Eagle) and the command module (Columbia). The 3 crew members were Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins.
No less than 850 journalists from 55 countries registered the event.
Apollo XI, the Soviets launched a lunar probe Luna XV, in an attempt to pass in front of Americans and bring the first sample of material from the Moon mission was not successful.
The menu on board the Apollo XI was chicken salad and sweet sauce of apples, more shrimp cocktail. The food was rehydrated with a gun in hot water. Ate everything with spoon. In the Gemini project, which preceded the Apollo, the food was mouth squirt through tubes.
The ship landed back shortly before dawn on 24 July - 8 days, 3 hours and 18 minutes after launch - in the Pacific Ocean, near Hawaii. Fearing some kind of contamination, has left the NASA astronauts in quarantine until the 10th of August.
In 1970, Neil Armstrong was interviewed by presenter Hebe Camargo, who asked him: "You have moonlight on the Moon".
Five other manned missions to the moon were made successfully by the Americans. The Soviets never repeated this feat. After the pioneering, 10 other men in the lunar soil pisariam: November 1969Charles Conrad and Alan Bean (Apollo XII) February 1971Edgar Mitchell and Alan Shepard (Apollo XIV) Alan was 47 years at the time. Holds the record for being the oldest man to step in Lua.Agosto of 1971David Scott and James Irwin (Apollo XV) James was the first of 12 men to death in 1991, a victim of a heart attack. Had 61 anos.Abril of 1972Charles Duke and John Young (Apollo XVI) December 1972Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt (Apollo XVII) beat the record of staying on the surface of the Moon: 75 hours.