Реферат: Moon Exploration Essay Research Paper MOON EXPLORATIONThe

The reaction control system , oxygen, fuel cells,

hydrogen tanks, and envirnmental control systems. The

main engine was only used for changes in course and

changes in orbit and escape from the lunor orbit.

When the crew came back for reentry the CSM would

split. The Command Module had heat sheilding so it

would not burn-up. When the CM first came into

reentry it was stabilized by its own engines. The

second part was done by three parachutes and a

drogue.

The First Lunar Landing took place on July 16,1969, it

was named Apollo 11. It made the first landing on the

moon on July 20, 1969. Lt. Michael Collins stayed in

the CM and orbited the moon while, Neil Armstrong and

Col. Edwin Aldrin Jr. landed down on the moon. The

landing took place in Mare Tranquillitatis (the Sea of

Tranquility) “at 4:17:42 PM

Eastern Daylight Time with this report:

“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has

landed.”" Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on

the moon. “Dropping the last meter from the ladder he

said: “That,s one small step for {a} man, one giant

leap for mankind” (NASA later reported that the word

“a” had been lost in transmission).” When on the moon

Armstrong and Aldren stup an American flag and left

scientific instruments, including a laser beam reflector,

a sheet of aluminum foil to to trap SOLAR WIND

particles, and a seismometer that later transmitted

evidence of a moonquake. The astronauts took soil