At 10:56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from Earth, speaks these words to more than a billion people listening at home: “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Stepping off the lunar landing module Eagle, Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon.
The American effort to send astronauts to the moon has its origins in a famous appeal President John F. Kennedy made to a special joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961: “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 Earth.” At the time, the United States was still trailing the Soviet Union in space developments, and Cold War-era America welcomed Kennedy’s bold proposal.
In 1966, after five years of work by an international team of scientists and engineers, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) conducted the first unmanned Apollo mission, testing the structural integrity of the proposed launch vehicle and spacecraft combination. Then, on January 27, 1967, tragedy struck at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, when a fire broke out during a manned launch-pad test of the Apollo spacecraft and Saturn rocket. Three astronauts were killed in the fire.
Despite the setback, NASA and its thousands of employees forged ahead, and in October 1968, Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, orbited Earth and successfully tested many of the sophisticated systems needed to conduct a moon journey and landing. In December of the same year, Apollo 8 took three astronauts to the far side of the moon and orbited it 10 times before returning, and in March 1969 Apollo 9 tested the lunar module for the first time while in Earth orbit. Then in May, the three astronauts of Apollo 10 took the first complete Apollo spacecraft in 31 orbits around the moon in a dry run for the scheduled July landing mission.
At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, with the world watching, Apollo 11 took off from Kennedy Space Center with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin Jr., and Michael Collins aboard. Armstrong, a 38-year-old research pilot, was the commander of the mission. After traveling 240,000 miles in 76 hours, Apollo 11 entered into a lunar orbit on July 19. The next day, at 1:46 p.m., the lunar module Eagle, manned by Armstrong and Aldrin, separated from the command module, where Collins remained. Two hours later, the Eagle began its descent to the lunar surface, and at 4:18 p.m. the craft touched down on the southwestern edge of the Sea of Tranquility. Armstrong immediately radioed to Mission Control in Houston, Texas, a famous message: “The Eagle has landed.”
At 10:39 p.m., five hours ahead of the original schedule, Armstrong opened the hatch of the lunar module. As he made his way down the lunar module’s ladder, a television camera attached to the craft recorded his progress and beamed the signal back to Earth, where hundreds of millions watched in great anticipation. At 10:56 p.m., Armstrong spoke his famous quote, which he later contended was slightly garbled by his microphone and meant to be “that’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” He then planted his left foot on the gray, powdery surface, took a cautious step forward, and humanity had walked on the moon.
“Buzz” Aldrin joined him on the moon’s surface at 11:11 p.m., and together they took photographs of the terrain, planted a U.S. flag, ran a few simple scientific tests, and spoke with President Richard M. Nixon via Houston. By 1:11 a.m. on July 21, both astronauts were back in the lunar module and the hatch was closed. The two men slept that night on the surface of the moon, and at 1:54 p.m. the Eagle began its ascent back to the command module. Among the items left on the surface of the moon was a plaque that read: “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon–July 1969 A.D–We came in peace for all mankind.”
At 5:35 p.m., Armstrong and Aldrin successfully docked and rejoined Collins, and at 12:56 a.m. on July 22 Apollo 11 began its journey home, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean at 12:51 p.m. on July 24.
There would be five more successful lunar landing missions, and one unplanned lunar swing-by, Apollo 13. The last men to walk on the moon, astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt of the Apollo 17 mission, left the lunar surface on December 14, 1972. The Apollo program was a costly and labor intensive endeavor, involving an estimated 400,000 engineers, technicians, and scientists, and costing $24 billion (close to $100 billion in today’s dollars). The expense was justified by Kennedy’s 1961 mandate to beat the Soviets to the moon, and after the feat was accomplished ongoing missions lost their viability.
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No, no he didn’t.
You are dumber than whale shit and have gone Full Retard.
Stucky, try taking your 1969 photographic film through the airport X-Ray. Now try taking it to the moon.
One of thousands of observations about the fake moon landings – how did they fold and fit all those giant landing parachutes and all those lines into the tiny nose cone of the command module? Hint: try and fold a piece of paper more than 7 times.
It was all fake. The moon landing was the happy face the Air Force put on its intercontinental ballistic missile program.
If you don’t believe me, take it from Buzz…
Hobo Code for ‘Buzz Aldrin’ = ‘A Buzzed Cauldron’.
I’ve always wondered how they fit the lunar rover into the lunar modules of missions 15, 16, 1nd 17 without increasing the size of the lunar module. It was as if the lunar rover got to the moon by magic.
And no blast craters under any of the lunar modules. And all landing squeaky clean with no dust. No dust clouds anywhere despite the jet exhaust gases that slowed the lunar module during its landing.
And there are no stars observed from the moon. Why is that you ask? Because the cables that suspended the “astronauts” would pass across them and make it obvious the astronauts were suspended by cables. The constant pings alone should have made this obvious though.
By the way NASA says that we haven’t been back to the moon because we “lost” the technology. What we did with the limited technology that we had then we can’t do now with the the far greater technology that we have now. LMAO.
NASA’s Petit says that they destroyed the technology, and it’s very hard to recreate it. At the same time NASA is planning on going to Mars. How does that work?
Yeah, right. We totally landed on the moon.
I can believe we’ve been to low orbit space but there’s no way humans traveled 238,900 miles within 3 days in a tin can, landed on the moon with no issues, took perfect pictures with perfect lighting, were able to transmit communications via radio and video with perfect clarity, were able to launch off the moon without it ever being done before or knowing if it was even possible, and came home with no issues. And they managed to do this multiple times in a few short years. Where did they keep the fuel needed to travel 477,800 miles? The fact that nobody has been to the moon in 50 years and the technology used to make the trip was somehow destroyed points to the moon landing being a total fraud.
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>Where did they keep the fuel needed to travel 477,800 miles?
And they also had no brakes on that thing, but say they have been traveling at up to 24,791 mph!
Never heard of air brakes, have you? DUH..
You are dumber than whale shit and have gone Full Retard.
Every so often, I encounter a person with a personality such as yours. Someone who gets some form of joy out of pissing in everyone’s corn flakes and then waiting to see if they will give them the negative attention that they are looking for.
Anger and vitriol that the person thrives on. Well Stucky, I was my do that. Instead, I will pray that whatever is eating you is removed, and that you can have real joy from positive interactions with others instead of flinging excrement at anyone in your path.
Are you nuts, or what?
I am the straw that stirs the drink …. it’s my job!! If art of stimulating conversation causes you butt-hurt then there’s some ting wong wif you … not me.
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Fuck off with your armchair psychology. You don’t know Jack or Shit about me. Worry about the plank in your own personality, and less about the mote in mine.
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In that case, pray for the removal of;
— Dementia Jo and his Ho
— 20 million illegals
— all entitled free shit Kneegrows
— Washington D.C., NYC, and California
— Balance Of Nature and MyPillow
I have much moar, but that’s a good start.
Lol triggered snowflake
You are dumber than whale shit and have gone Full Retard.
“3 days in a tin can, landed on the moon with no issues” They had Depends , duh.
You are dumber than whale shit and have gone Full Retard.
Amazing variety of lighting on the Moon.
I’m sure someone with an advanced degree can explain it to us.
The moon doesn’t exist. It’s all an illusion.
It’s too bad that downvoters don’t explain their disagreement. Maybe we could all be enlightened.
You idiot. You can see the moon! But you can’t see the far side of the moon. They’d like you to believe it’s there, but that’s DNC misinformation.
The lighting and film crew arrived in another capsule, much earlier, to set it all up. It’s history., bruh.
You are dumber than whale shit and have gone Full Retard.
Best comment yet.
You are dumber than whale shit and have gone Full Retard.
What are your trying to say , Stuck…out with it, sir!
Wagging the Moondoggie.
Check out the lunar waves.
https://www.brighteon.com/def28b95-1298-4e83-a30c-43b9fb69a4bd
Neil Armstrong in one of his last of the strangely few interviews, when asked what he thinks about the conspiracy theories that he never went: “One day, someone will go back and find the camera that I left there, and then they’ll know.”
Upon his death 3 years later, his wife finds his Hasselblad camera in their home.
Why did he mention the camera and not the flag or the moon rover? In my opinion, he was smart enough to find a way to disclose something without outright saying it. Enough for the seekers to find, but not enough to get his family killed.
I didn’t just make it up. He spins a great tale in the video below. His demeanor is much different from the earliest interviews/press conference, when he appeared to be attending a funeral. Psychologically, he probably had to make peace with the lie in order to compartmentalize it and go on with life.
The part about the “conspiracy theory” and the camera proof starts at minute 37.
After his widow found his camera in the closet, they had to backpaddle and stated that there are 12 cameras left on the moon. It still does not explain why he mentioned the camera specifically.
https://cameraville.co/blog/apollo-11-camera-lost-40-years-found-closet
there are 12 cameras left on the moon
Wow — using that logic, then there must be thousands of cameras left at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, millions of cameras left at the top of the Empire State Bldg, etc.
Does it make sense that the astronauts would spend precious time opening up the cameras while still on the moon to remove the films and take the films with them but leave the cameras, risking the loss of precious images if the films are fumbled or inadvertently exposed to light? Twelve times? With those gloves on and without very good vision through the visors?
But Neil smuggled that one camera from the moon back to earth and then all the way to his closet without anybody at NASA noticing.
None of it passes even the most superficial application of common sense or logic.
Indeed, I went down that rabbit hole a while ago — especially with regard to kubrick’s role and how he supposedly left clues in the Shining. I don’t believe any of the official story.
Interesting about NA perhaps leaving that clue (in your OP) — thanks for sharing. I know that the press conference following the moon trip was more like a funeral — that pretty much tells you all you need to know…
The Van Allen Belts would fry any film that weasn’t protected by a thick lead case.
No, it wouldn’t.
You are dumber than whale shit and have gone Full Retard.
Luckily for them the moon had a Lunar Lander car wash.
Not a speck of dust on the Lunar Lander.
Whew, we all love a clean Lunar Lander!
Thank goodness the NASA brain trust provided the correct change.
You are dumber than whale shit and have gone Full Retard.
I wonder if they could see the flat earth from the flat moon ?
what a lying crock of shit. stanley kubrick film footage from a movie set was broadcast to americans as part of a gigantic hoax and lie.
You are dumber than whale shit and have gone Full Retard.
Now we all see why you are called ‘Stucky’. Do you have a reset button or a reboot procedure?
LOL! That was good.
I always wondered why they didn’t point the Hubble Telescope at the landing site so we could “enjoy the memories”….
If NASA can still record images of star that exploded 100 billion years ago, why not an event that happened 6 decades ago?
You are dumber than whale shit and have gone Full Retard.
Area 51, bruh …the truth is out there.
https://www.space.com/12796-photos-apollo-moon-landing-sites-lro.html
Wow, that was alot of bullshit to read.
LOL!!!
I always wondered who took the video of him going down the ladder and stepping onto the “moon” if he was the first one to step on the moon???
You are dumber than whale shit and have gone Full Retard.
Having a nice day, I see. It must be miserable to be highly pissed off all the time. Sheesh.
You think I’m pissed off???
No way, Jose!!
Letting someone know they are dumber than whale shit and have gone Full Retard is as easy and enjoyable to me as breathing air.
Maybe I am dumber than shite on this one. So, why don’t you explain it to me?
Explain it??
I would (and could) except for one thing …. whether or not the moon landing was a hoax has been discussed here at length at LEAST 20 – 30 times.
I see no point in doing so again. After a while a person just gets Burned Out Fatigue Syndrome over a topic … at least I do. Other topics whereby I am fatigued;
— Building 7 and the whole 9-11 debate
— Flat Earth
— Rapture and Jesus-will-save-us routines
— COVID
— All Kurt Sphincter and history.com articles
THAT WAS MY POINT. My statement/rhetorical question was when I began my red pill process.
Obviously, I was not clear which triggered you to fling shite.
Then there is nothing left on TBP!
[Had typed “Blow Brewer55” but decided to delete it]
wtf are you talking about?
Sounds like BFB from Zerohedge — always predicting the cratering of real estate
The camera was built into the lunar lander base module. When it was time to leave the capsule there were a number of things to do before they opened the door and went out. One of the items was extending the camera so it pointed towards the escape hatch.
If the moon landing was fake why hasn’t Russia or China or any other country that can go to space call us out on it?
Because they’d have to come clean about their own bogus space programs.
HoLeeFuk ….never thought I’d live to see the day when ‘Putin it where it counts’ is the SMARTEST commenter in the room!!!
Mutually Assured Destruction (of The Narrative).
The same reason they have never called US out on a myriad of false flags that led to war , the genocidal Covid narrative, the fake capitalism vs communism dichotomy , MK Ultra , the Phoenix Program, or who killed the Kennedy’s, MLK and shot Reagan, because those in the fight club , don’t talk about the fight club ?
Also, Covid 19 jabs are safe and effective!
Rammstein celebrates it best:
Rammstein walked on same moon as Armstrong.
One of the best Rammstein songs.
So many good songs!
Du Riechst So Gut
So Gut!
Rammlied
So Wütend…
Deutschland
So German!
if the earth is flat, is the moon flat?
Dumb question…it’s flat all the way down.
Read “Moon Man” by Bart Sibrel. The whole Apollo Program was a CIA job.
I just could never understand how they “lost “the technology to go up bc the or the original video which was accidentally taped over ?!
Most important event in human history and we misplaced?
Surprised they haven’t left a GoPro camera up yet there so we can have a live feed
It took NASA several tries to land on Mars without crashing, given today’s technology and computer speeds. The best they could do was a controlled crash landing using giant balloons.
Yet they expect us to believe that Buzz Aldrin did it back in 1969 free stick with no practice, as there is no place to practice an actual moon landing before hand. Sure, I believe that.
“with no practice”
{knowledge crater detected}
They ain’t on Mars. Prolly just some shit hole of rock near the arctic.
They are finding boards, hamsters, walrus jaw bones, and plant material with their cameras…”on Mars.”
And nobody can find a single moon rock they brought back?
One turned out to be petrified wood. ROFL
https://www.space.com/where-are-nasa-apollo-moon-rocks.html