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2020-10-06
- Apollo Missions presentation
- Goal --> humans on the Moon
- JFK speech
- NASA went from fire/death --> boots on the Moon in 2 years
- Took 8 years to land on the Moon
- Missions
- Apollo 1
- Flash fire in the launch capsule
- All 3 astronauts died
- Almost shut down the Space Exploration Program
- Apollo 2 & 3
- Apollo 5
- Included Lunar Module
- Apollo 6
- Final unmanned Saturn V launch to verify safety
- Apollo 7
- First manned mission
- Significant amount of unused equipment
- Orbited lower Earth
- Windows would fog up a lot
- Apollo 8
- Apollo 9
- Test to see if the lunar module could land on the moon
- Took place in Earth's orbit
- Apollo 10
- Dress rehearsal --> tested all elements of a moon landing while orbiting the moon
- Tested all components required for Apollo 11
- Apollo 11
- Apollo 12
- Second manned landing on the Moon
- Retrieved remains of Surveyor III
- Apollo 13
- Supposed to be another manned landing on the Moon
- Oxygen tank exploded in space so they couldn't land
- Great podcast detailing the mission
- Apollo 14
- Spent two days on the surface of the Moon
- Landed in the lunar highlands
- Apollo 15
- First three day stay on the Moon
- First usage of Lunar Rover
- Apollo 16
- Landed in the lunar highlands again
- Picked up more scientific studies
- Apollo 17
- Last lunar mission
- Three days on the Moon
- Apollo 1
- Arecibo Observatory & The Very Large Array
- VLA
- Arecibo Observatory
- Interactive physics simulations