The Apollo 11 moon landing
Elijah Penland
Mr.Moore
March 21,2016
The main objective for the apollo 11 moon landing was to complete a national goal that was set by the President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961 to perform a moon landing and return to Earth.Apollo 11 was launched from the Cape Kennedy space center in Florida on July 16, 1969, and it was carrying the Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin into an initial Earth orbit.James Lovell and there was 3, Backup Commander and Fred Haise, there was 0, Backup Lunar Module Pilot,William A. Anders and there was 1, Backup Command Module Pilot.On the Apollo 11 they had to eat food that's called space food and another name for it is called freeze dried space food and they had peas,cocoa,and orange drinks.
"The Eagle has landed..’ the space center said when the spacecraft landed on the moon.There was an estimated of about 530 million people that watched the Neil Armstrong's televised voice and they heard him describing the event as he took the favorite saying “one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" and it was on July 20, 1969.
The first TV transmission from the Apollo 11 to Earth occurred during the translunar coast of the CSM/LM. Later, on July 17, a three-second burn of the SPS was made to perform the second of the four scheduled midcourse corrections programmed for the flight but the launch had been so successful that they did not need the other three so they were not needed for the tv transmission so they did not add it on.Armstrong and Aldrin, they spent about 21 hours on the moon's surface. Re entry for the procedures was initiated to be on July 24,about 44 hours after leaving the lunar orbit. The SM separated from the CM, which was re oriented to the heat shield forward position. Parachute deployment occurred at 195 hours, 13 minutes. After a flight of 195 hours, 18 minutes, 35 seconds and about 36 minutes longer than planned for the Apollo 11 splashed down into the Pacific Ocean, and it was 13 miles away from the recovery ship USS Hornet because there was a lot of bad weather.So it took the Apollo 11 farther away then it was intentid for.