But hoax stories continued, encouraged in popular culture. NASA and other experts have debunked the myths. He argued that the Moon landing was staged in a studio. Yet a poll found that 20% of Americans think it was staged.Ĭonspiracy theories began in 1976 when American Bill Kaysing published a pamphlet entitled We Never Went to the Moon: America’s Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle. Since then, NASA has brought back 382kg of Moon rock, while in 2011 the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter found the footprints left behind.
More than 650 million people around the world watched the live televised footage of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the Moon. Watch 8 Days: To The Moon And Back on BBC iPlayer.The whole thing was like a rocking chair through the entire ascent trajectory. The rockets would fire and move the vehicle upward then they would shut off, and we would be pushed the other way, then they would kick in again. The ascent to the Colombia command module had a characteristic unlike any other portion of the flight. “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” I’m going to step off the Lunar Module now. The surface appears to be very fine grained as you get close to it. I asked Houston if they were getting a picture and they said yes, but it was upside down. When I first exited the Lunar Module out on to the porch, Buzz turned on a circuit breaker powering the camera. So we had to wait until we got to a very low pressure difference between the inside of the door and the outside of the door before it would break free. When we got the cabin pressure down to a very low psi – it took something like two hundred pounds of pressure to open that up. It took much longer to depressurise the cabin than we anticipated. Getting down on to the Moon was less important but, to actually touch your boot into the sand was significant.
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In the second part of our series celebrating the Moon landing 50 years on, the late Neil Armstrong shares his memories of the mission – from setting foot on the lunar surface before fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin to splashing down into the Pacific Ocean.
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