THE FIRST

M NLANDING1

1A PowerPoint Presentation submitted to Ms. Christine Tablatin by Michael John Duran Sison (MDM) on July 01, 2014, in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the course Comp. 1 (Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Use of Internet), Summer, A.Y. 2013-2014.

‘One small step for man,

- Commander Neil Armstrongone giant leap for mankind.’

WHAT

A moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. *

ISMOONLANDING?

This includes both manned and unmanned (robotic) missions. *

FAST

The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission, on 13th of September, 1959.

FACTS*FIVE

1.

The United States' Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon, on 20th of July, 1969.

FASTFACTS*

FIVE

2.

FAST

There have been six manned U.S. landings (between 1969 and 1972) and numerous unmanned landings.

FACTS*FIVE

3.

FAST

There has been no soft landings happening from 1976 until 14th of December, 2013.

FACTS*FIVE

4.

FAST

To date, the United States is the only country to have successfully conducted manned missions to the Moon.

FACTS*FIVE

5.

*Source: ‘Moon landing’ from Wikipedia accessed through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing

THE

Both the USA and the former USSR (Russia) were determined to be the first nation to land a man on the moon.

BLASTFROM PAST

In May 1961 US President John F. Kennedy challenged the nation to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

Apollo 11 was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre on July 16, 1969.

On board were Neil Armstrong, the Commander of the Mission, Michael Collins, the command module pilot and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin, lunar module pilot.

The Apollo 11 spacecraft was launched from Cape Kennedy at 13:32:00 UT on July 16, 1969. After 2 hrs and 33 min in Earth orbit, the S-IVB engine was reignited for acceleration of the spacecraft to the velocity required for Earth gravity escape.

Lunar-orbit insertion began at 75:50 ground elapsed time (GET). The spacecraft was placed in an elliptical orbit (61 by 169 nautical miles), inclined 1.25 degrees to the lunar equatorial plane.

At 80:12 GET, the service module propulsion system was reignited, and the orbit was made nearly circular (66 by 54 nautical miles) above the surface of the Moon.

Astronaut Armstrong emerged from the spacecraft first. While descending, he released the Modularized Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA) on which the surface television camera was stowed, and the camera recorded humankind's first step on the Moon.

A sample of lunar surface material was collected and stowed to assure that, if a contingency required an early end to the planned surface activities, samples of lunar surface material would be returned to Earth. Astronaut Aldrin subsequently descended to the lunar surface.

HERE MEN FROM THE PLANET EARTHFIRST SET FOOT UPON THE MOONJULY 1969 A.D.

WE CAME IN PEACE FOR ALL MANKIND

A plaque was affixed to the leg of the lunar landing vehicle signed by President Nixon, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin, Jr. The plaque bears a map of the Earth and this inscription:

APOLLO 11LANDING SITE

Images captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) between July 11 and 15, 2009 show high-resolution views of the Apollo landing sites.At the top right is the Apollo 11 landing site with the descent stage of the Lunar Module and its shadow indicated by the arrow.

Courtesy: http://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/landing-missions/apollo11-landing-site.cfm

References:

APOLLO 11 http://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/landing-missions/apollo11-landing-site.cfm

accessed May 25, 2014

APOLLO 11 (AS-506) http://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/landing-missions/apollo11.cfm

accessed May 25, 2014

Moon landing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing

accessed May 25, 2014

The First Moon Landing http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/firstmoonlanding.htm

accessed May 25, 2014

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