Which astronauts walked on the moon first




















In another interview, when asked what it feels like to have his footprints remain on the moon's surface for thousands of years, Armstrong said, "I kind of hope that somebody goes up there one of these days and cleans them up," The Independent reported.

Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, on Aug. Neil was a naval aviator from to and served in the Korean War. He earned his bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering from Purdue University in Many years later, after he became world-famous, he also received a master of science in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California in During his long career as a pilot, Armstrong flew more than different aircraft, from jets to gliders and even helicopters.

In , Armstrong was selected to be part of NASA's second group of astronauts, who flew on the two-seat Gemini missions to test out space technology, and the three-seat Apollo missions that ultimately took 12 people to the surface of the moon. Armstrong's first flight was as command pilot of the Gemini 8 mission in March — the sixth crewed mission of that series.

Armstrong and pilot David Scott completed the first orbital docking of two spacecraft, joining their Gemini 8 spacecraft to an uncrewed Agena target vehicle. However, the two-man crew experienced a serious problem when a thruster on the Gemini 8 spacecraft became stuck open.

With the astronauts whipping around faster than one revolution per second, Armstrong managed to gain control again by using the re-entry system thrusters. The event was the first serious emergency in space and although the mission ultimately ended safely, the spacecraft was forced to splash down early because the re-entry system was already expended.

Armstrong also narrowly avoided a nasty accident in May , this time within Earth's atmosphere , while flying the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle — a machine that could fly somewhat like a lunar module and simulate landings on the moon.

Fuel for the attitude thrusters ran out and Armstrong was forced to eject just seconds before the vehicle crashed, NASA reported. Armstrong escaped unharmed. The Apollo 11 crew members were announced to the public in January His responsibilities included landing on the moon alongside Aldrin, the pilot of the lunar module Eagle.

Collins would remain in lunar orbit aboard the command module Columbia. Collins was originally supposed to be backup pilot for Apollo 11, but his spot in the flight sequence was moved after required surgery on his back forced him off the prime crew for Apollo 8. As the lander approached the moon, Armstrong took over the controls when he saw that the computer was guiding them to a boulder-filled landing zone. At p. Armstrong radioed, "Houston, Tranquility Base here.

The Eagle has landed. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot. Then, on January 27, , 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 , 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 back, and in March Apollo 9 tested the lunar module for the first time while in Earth orbit.

That May, the three astronauts of Apollo 10 took the first complete Apollo spacecraft around the moon in a dry run for the scheduled July landing mission. At a. Armstrong, a year-old civilian research pilot, was the commander of the mission. After traveling , miles in 76 hours, Apollo 11 entered into a lunar orbit on July The next day, at p. Two hours later, the Eagle began its descent to the lunar surface, and at p. At p. As he made his way down the 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.

Aldrin joined him on the moon's surface 19 minutes later, and together they took photographs of the terrain, planted a U. By a. The two men slept that night on the surface of the moon, and at p. Among the items left on the surface of the moon was a plaque that read: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the moon—July A. There would be five more successful lunar landing missions, and one unplanned lunar swing-by. He died on May 26, , at the age of 86, after suddenly falling ill while travelling.

Alan Bean sits by two of his paintings at an exhibition of his artwork at the National Air and Space Museum to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing in Related: Alan Bean, the fourth astronaut to walk on the moon, dead at Edgar Mitchell, left, conducts a seismic experiment during the first Apollo 14 moonwalk with Alan Shepard on Feb.

The photograph was captured by an automatic camera mounted on a vehicle the mission used to haul equipment. The crew of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission, from left, Stuart Roosa, commander Alan Shepard and lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell.

Roosa remained in orbit while the other two landed on the moon. Mitchell died at 85, in Florida, in early After NASA, Mitchell devoted his life to exploring the mind, physics and unexplained phenomena such as psychics and aliens.

Shepard died in Before walking on the moon, Shepard became the first American in space with a suborbital flight in James Irwin, lunar module pilot, gives a military salute to David Scott, taking the picture, while standing beside the U.

The lunar module Falcon stands at center. Hadley Delta in the background rises approximately some 13, feet above the plain. James Irwin, left, and David Scott sample rocks in the Mojave Desert during a field trip where they used a lunar rover simulator to explore a lava flow at the base of the Sierra Nevadas in California on April 29, He died in He is only one of three astronauts who have flown both earth orbital and lunar Apollo missions.

He is Mattingly remained in orbit while Young and Duke landed on the moon. At 36, Duke was the youngest man to walk on the moon.



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