After a long period of moon contemplation, the science that prepared the way for mankind to ascend to the surface of the moon progressed on the Apollo 11 mission.

The sky has always aroused the curiosity of human beings, and it prompted many thinkers, philosophers and veteran scientists to ask about it, even most of them tried to explore it, and there are those who worked hard to manufacture a machine that helps him get closer to the sky and understand its components well. And the moon was the most curious component for them in it, the moon was a material thing that described the beloved by it, and there were those who sanctified it and there are those who looked at it with a contemplative look, hoping to answer their many questions about it.

Reaching the moon was a dream, many of the former wished to reach it and explore it, but it is the weak potential with the lack of scientific progress at the time, despite the strong desire, fate decreed that they should live in that time, in which science was liking its first steps, and from our good fortune We are children of this time that we have witnessed the rise and fall of many space flights, and reaching the moon, that beautiful space object suspended in the sky, became possible.

NASA and space

NASA space agency is the most famous international institution interested in astronomy and space, and it was able to prepare for the first human trip to outer space. And before it, NASA sent several spacecraft as a test before the launch of the humanoid spacecraft. The project to ascend to the moon was called Apollo, but these flights did not succeed the first times, as some of those who tried to go out into space were lost, until the role of Apollo 11, led by Neil Armstrong.

It must have been a great risk from Armstrong and his crew, but it is curiosity and passion that are what drives a person most to commit risks and travel to farther ranges, and this is what this brave speech did, and thanks to their steps, humans were able to study and discover the components of the moon and many studies were conducted on these samples. .

The first human landing on the moon

In the 1960s, NASA decided to send humans to the surface of the moon aboard Apollo 11, and he was aboard the outgoing spacecraft: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. The flight took off on July 16, 1969, and returned a few days later to Earth safely. Apollo 11 was able to achieve its main tasks, which are carrying out a human landing on the moon and bringing samples from another space object to Earth.

Summary of events

Preparation for this important flight began in January of 1969, on July 16, 1969, at exactly 13:32:00 UTC, the spacecraft carrying the Apollo 11 astronauts set off from the Kennedy Space Center heading towards outer space to complete its journey to the moon It consisted of: a command center (CM), a service center (SM), and a space cabin for the astronauts. After two hours and thirty three minutes, the spacecraft reached Earth orbit, and the S-IVB engine was restarted in order to accelerate the spacecraft’s movement in order to reach the required high speed that helps Vehicle to be free from Earth's gravity.

The spacecraft began entering the moon's orbit after a time of about 75:50 had elapsed, and placed the spacecraft in an elliptical orbit tilted 1.25 degrees to the moon's equatorial plane. After 80:12 hours, the propulsion system for the service module was restarted and the orbit was circular over the surface of the moon, and each orbit took about two hours to skip.

The LM was separated from the Command Service Module (CSM) at 14:100 and housed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, while Collins remained in command. After a comprehensive examination of all the Lunar Module Systems at 101:36, the Lunar Module Landing Engine was turned on for approximately 29 seconds, and the lunar landing process began. At 102:33, the landing engine was started for the last time until it landed on the moon's surface, and the unit landed on the moon 102:45:40 after the flight began.

Immediately after the landing, Armstrong and Aldrin postponed the scheduled sleep period, and set up the Lunar Module, ready for any sudden emergency takeoff and preparing for the landing on the surface of the moon. It seems that they were impatient to open the craft and go down to the moon for the first time.

The filming of Armstrong's first landing on the moon began at 109:24:19, followed by Aldern after about 19 minutes. The astronauts began collecting samples from the moon to be taken to be examined on the ground, and they took pictures of the area near the landing. After two and a quarter hours of descending to the surface, they began preparing to return again to the satellite and after that both of them fell asleep and the unit began to ascend again in the direction of the lunar orbit at exactly 124:22 after the flight took off, i.e. 21 hours and 36 minutes after landing on The surface of the moon, and at 195:18 after the flight begins, it will finally be on the Pacific Ocean on planet Earth.

The whole world celebrated this great event, honored the heroes of the journey, and finally the human dream was fulfilled and the imagination of science fiction and fantasy writers became a tangible reality, and many films were made about this event, and the writers unleashed their imaginations to create and break the impossible barrier that says that the rise of man to the moon occurs in the imagination And novels only.

Neil Armstrong was honored to be the first person to land on the surface of the moon, take his first steps on him, and Aldrin followed him, and what the children of mankind had hoped for was fulfilled one day, after the moon was far away, and just a space object that no human could reach, which opened the doors of hope for Scientists and researchers to raise the ceiling of their ambitions to search further distances from the moon and explore it and study it well, and indeed humans could then send spacecraft to explore the distant planets and moons. In addition, the Apollo 11 flight was a de facto move to break through the fear of risk and rise into the unknown.