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50 Years Since Man Landed on the Moon EUROPE LATIN AMERICA MIDDLE EAST 50 years since man landed on the Moon Let's talk aeronautics NORTH AMERICA 20th July 1969: Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon, marking aertecsolutions.com the culmination of an adventure that began just seven years earlier “This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, 1 Launch Escape System (LES) SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE GREATEST MANNED of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth” 2 Solid fuel nozzles th SPACE ADVENTURE IN HISTORY –Speech by J. F. Kennedy on 25 May 1961 3 Launch heat shield 4 Command Module Columbia (CM) The control panel of the Apollo 11 control module had 566 switches, a telescope and a computer 5 Service Module (SM) with 72kb (ROM) + 4kb (RAM) of memory, which weighed 30 kg. The computers on board had less APOLLO 11, 6 Service module propulsion nozzle 100:15:00 processing power than current electronic devices FROM THE APOLLO SPACECRAFT 11 7 Lunar Module Eagle (LM) (digital clocks or basic telephones). MOON TO... Container for the Lunar Module MADRID! 80:09:30 8 When the lunar module separated from Apollo 11, 102:45:40 10 the cabin was completely depressurised, which The first place on Earth that 12 Instrument unit Neil Armstrong’s voice was heard 75:49:50 caused a burst of gas that displaced the module 3º Stage from the Moon was in Fresnedilla 9 6.4 km from the intended target. S-IVB de la Oliva (Madrid, Spain). · Diameter: 10.1m Their communication facilities · Height: 18.1m When the Eagle module was about to land at the then linked the astronauts to · Mass: 121,000 kg (with fuel) planned location, the astronauts noticed that the Houston, where the message 11,300 kg (empty) ground was too rocky. Neil Armstrong took manual The escape velocity for Earth’s 1 x J-2 THIRD STAGE · Engine: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Buzz Aldrin arrived 1.7 seconds later. gravity was 29,000 km/h, and control of the spacecraft and steered it into a more · Fuel: Liquid oxygen (89,000 kg) favourable area, about 6 kilometers away. One of the maximum achieved during Liquid hydrogen (19,900 kg) the journey was 40,000 km/h tensest moments of the mission occurred while · Manufacturer: Douglas Aircraft Company they were looking for a better landing site, when Timeline of a historic flight Junction cone a warning sounded signifying there was only 30 seconds of fuel left. 2º Stage s) 8 03:24:03 / 00:11:53 · Diameter: 10.1m 16th July 1969 at 13:32:00 UTC* /m 00:09:12 1 (h The moon landing was so gentle that the 5 4 00:03:17 · Height: 24.8m Launch of Apollo 11 from Launch Complex 39 of e 3 spacecraft’s shock absorbers did not compress, im 02:49:26 S-II · Mass: 493,318 kg (with fuel) the J. F. Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. t 7 which meant Armstrong had to jump almost a t 00:02:41 36,478 kg (empty) h 2 metre down from the lunar module ladder to the ig 2 Separation of the S-IC and remote ignition of the S-II. l · Engine: 5 x J-2 F surface of the Moon. 02:44:14 · Fuel: Liquid oxygen (384,000 kg) At 96 km of altitude > The Launch Escape System spent on the surface of Moon Only 21 h 38' 21" were 3 6 Liquid hydrogen (73,000 kg) tower was jettisoned. 00:00:00 North American Aviation (NAA) The first thing Armstrong said on the Moon was: 1 SECOND STAGE · Manufacturer: At 185 km of altitude > The second stage S-II decoupled, “I’m at the foot of the ladder. The footpads are 4 and 3 minutes later the third stage (S-IVB) was ignited. only depressed in the surface about 1 or 2 inches, More than 600 million The plans of the Saturn V are preserved although the surface appears to be very, very fine The S-IVB engine stopped, putting the spacecraft into people followed on microfilm at the Marshall Space Flight 5 grained, as you get close to it. It’s almost like a a parking orbit. Start of the powered flight to the Moon the Apollo 11 moon Center in Huntsville, Alabama (US) powder. I’m going to step off now.” And that is with the ignition of the S-IVB engine for 307 seconds. landing live on TV when he said his famous phrase that has endured 6 Ongoing unpowered flight to the Moon. Junction ring through history. Reorganisation of the modules during the flight: lunar module 1º Stage infographics 7 (Eagle), command module (Columbia) and service module, The astronauts collected 22 kilograms of moon · Diameter: 10.1m to orbit the Moon and get into position for the Moon landing. rocks that were later analysed on Earth. It was · Height: 42.1m Trajectory corrections. discovered that the youngest samples collected · Mass: 2,246,540 kg (with fuel) were still older than any rock found on Earth. The spacecraft ignited the positioning thrusters 130,441 kg (empty) 8 5 x F-1 (in the service module) to place itself into lunar orbit. S-IC · Engine: SATURN V · Fuel: Liquid oxygen (1,471,427 kg) After the moon walk, Aldrin noticed that the ignition The Eagle began the Hohmann transfer trajectory 9 LAUNCH VEHICLE OF THE APOLLO Liquid hydrogen (642,177 kg) switch on the engine that was to lift the spacecraft (a curved trajectory that allowed them to enter lunar orbit). · Manufacturer: Boeing off the Moon’s surface was broken. He resolved it by inserting a pen he was carrying in his space suit Download & Share! www.aertecsolutions.com/ The lunar module, the Eagle, undocked and was allowed Saturn V was the most powerful liquid 10 to be pulled down by the Moon’s gravity. fuel rocket that has ever been built. It was pocket. It worked. over 100 m high and weighed about 3,000 FIRST STAGE 11 The Eagle ignited the descent thrusters. tonnes. The explosive power of the Saturn The flag of the Apollo 11 mission was knocked The Eagle landed on the Moon. V rocket was such that it could fling debris Human scale down by the lunar module itself when it turned 12 20th July 1969 at 20:17:40 UTC weighing up to 45 kg to a distance of 4.8 km. 9 Stabilisers The duration of the mission was 195 h 18' 35" /// on the engines to take off. All the flags left by the Visitors were therefore accommodated at a successive Apollo missions have turned white due Central F-1 engine (fixed) * Las siglas UTC significan "Tiempo Universal Coordinado" safe distance, 5.6 km from the launch pad. 10 to the passage of time, temperature changes and (en inglés "Universal Time Coordinated") 11 Four gimballed F-1 engines solar radiation. Source: NASA and AERTEC Solutions. The contents of this document are intellectual property of AERTEC Solutions. Any copy or diffusion is allowed as long as the entire document is used, with the AERTEC Solutions logo being included at all times..
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