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Mission Moon

Facts about MoonSize and Distance Diameter of Moon 3476 KM

Earth Diameter 12742 KM Volume of Moon 2.195 x10^10 KM3

2% of the Earth Earth equals 50 Moons

Mass of Moon 7.347x 10^22 kg 1.2% of Earth Earth equals 81 Moons

Distance Varies from 4,06,697 km to 3,56,410 KM

Mission sent to Moon

Luna 1 First Mission on

Moon by USSR Jan 2nd , 1959 Impact Moon Missed the Moon

Mission Sent on Moon

Luna 2 Second Mission on

Moon by USSR Sept12th, 1959 Impact Moon Worlds First Lunar

Impact

Luna 3

Luna 3 Third Mission on

Moon by USSR Oct 4th , 1959 Fly By around

Moon First Photo of

Moon’s Far Side

Luna 4


Moon by USSR April 2nd ,1963 Moon Landing Missed the Moon

by 8500 kms

Luna 5


Moon by USSR May 9th, 1965 Moon Landing Crashed into the

Moon

Luna 6


Moon by USSR June 8th, 1965 Moon Landing Missed Moon by

160000 kms

Luna 7


Moon by USSR Oct 4th, 1965 Moon Landing Crashed into the

Moon

Luna 8


Moon by USSR Dec 3rd, 1965 Moon Landing Crashed during

Landing Attempt

Luna 9


Moon by USSR Jan 31st, 1966 Moon Landing World’s First Soft

Landing on Moon on 3rd Feb, 1966

Luna 10

Luna 10 March 31st, 1966 Lunar Orbitting Entered Moon’s

Orbit on April 3rd and orbitted for 56 days

American Lunar Mission

Apollo 8 Dec 21st, 1968 Frank Borman, Jim

Lovell, William A. Anders

First Human Lunar Orbit

Apollo 10

May 18th, 1969 Thomas P.

Stafford, John W. Young, Eugene Cernan

Second Human Lunar Orbit

Dress Rehearsal of landing on Moon

Apollo 11 – The Moon ConquerorThe first Human Landing

July 16th , 1969 Neil Armstrong,

Michael Collins, Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin

First Human Landing on Moon

Landed on July 20th

First Man on Moon

First man on Moon DOB Aug 5th 1930 One Extra

Vehicular Activity (EVA)

Spent 2.5 hrs on the Surface of Moon

First Space flight on Gemini 8, 1966

Second Man on Moon

Second Man on Moon

DOB Jan 20th,1930 Pilot of Lunar

Module of Apollo 11

Stepped on Moon minutes after Neil

Apollo XII – Second Human Landing on Moon Launched on 14th

Nov, 1969 4 mths after Apollo XI

Crew Members Charles Conrad, Jr. ; Richard F Gordon, Jr. ; Alan L. Bean

Landed on 19th Nov, 1969

Crew Members of Apollo XIILeft to right: Conrad, Gordon, Bean

Apollo XIII – A Failed Mission Launched on April 11th

1970 Could not land on

Moon because of Onboard explosion, safely return back on 15th April, 1970

Crew: James A. Lovell, Jr. ; John L. Swigert ; Fred W. Haise, Jr.

Crew Member of Apollo XIIILeft to right: Lovell, Mattingly, Haise.

Apollo XIV – Third Human Landing on Moon Launched on

January 31st, 1971, landed on moon on 5th Feb, 1971

Crew :Alan B. Shepard, Jr ; Stuart A. Roosa :Edgar D. Mitchell

Returned back on 9th Feb, 1971

Crew MembersLeft to right: Roosa, Shepard, Mitchell

Appolo XV- Fourth Human Landing on Moon Mission Launched on

July 26th ,1971, landed on 30th July

Crew Members: David R. Scott ; Alfred M. Worden ; James B. Irwin

Stayed on Moon for almost 3 days

Returned back on August7th 1971

Crew MembersLeft to right: Scott, Worden, Irwin

Apollo XVI – 5th Human Landing on Moon Launched on April 16th

1972, landed on 21st April, 1972

Crew :John W. Young ; T. Kenneth Mattingly Jr. ; Charles M. Duke Jr. .

Stayed on Moon for 3 days and spent 20 hrs on EVA

Returned Back on April 27th 1972

Crew MembersLeft to right: Mattingly, Young, Duke

Apollo XVII – 6th &THE LAST Human Landing on Moon

Launched on Dec 7th , 1972 &landed on Dec 11th

Crew :Eugene A. Cernan ; Ronald E. Evans ; Harrison H. Schmitt

Stayed on Moon for 3days and EVA for 22 hrs

Returned back on Dec 19th, 1972

Crew MembersLeft to right: Schmitt, Cernan (seated), Evans

The Last Man on MOON

Born on 14th March, 1934

Last Man on Moon Spent 23 days 14

hours and 15 minutes in space

Participated in Gemini 9A, Apollo 10, Apollo 17 Missions

Our own Chandrayaan1

Launched on October 22, 2008

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

From Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh

4th November Landed on Moon

Mission Duration 312 days

Chandrayaan 1

Missions Accomplishments: To construct the complex spacecraft with 11 scientific

instruments. To place the spacecraft in a circular orbit around the

Moon by orbit raising manoeuvres from a near Earth orbit.

To place the Flag of India on the Moon. To carry out imaging operations and to collect data on

the mineral content of the lunar soil. To set up a deep space tracking network and

implement the operational procedures for travel into deep space.

Chandrayaan 1

Data From Chandrayaan suggests the availabilty of water on Moon

Chandrayaan also discovers Large Caves, these caves can be human shelter on Moon

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