In the midst of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Soviet space program POT He managed to take the Moon to 6 Apollo missions between 1969 and 1972.
On July 20, 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander of Apollo 11, became the first person to walk on the surface of the Moon. Accompanied by Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, Armstrong It went down in human history, as did the phrase he said as he walked down the stairs of the lunar module: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Just 4 months later, the Apollo 12, manned by Charles Conrad, Alan Bean and Richard Gordonlanded in the Moon’s Ocean of Storms, to much less hype than its predecessor mission. Interest in the space race picked up again in April 1970 with the agonizing story of the Apollo 13. The mission could not arrive to the Moon due to an explosion in an oxygen tank and a rudimentary device had to be improvised to increase the level of breathable air in the ship. After 6 long and difficult days of traveling through space, astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise landed safely in the Pacific Ocean.
He Apollo 14 landed on the Fra Mauro regionthe planned location for Apollo 13, in February of 1971with astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchel. One of the most curious moments of all the Apollo missions was played by Commander Alan Shepard, who hit 2 golf balls on the Moon. The journey of exploration of David Scott, James Irwin and Alfred Worden with the Apollo 15 in July 1971 It was characterized by being the first time that was used a Lunar rover, vehicle already perfectly controlled in the mission of Apollo 16 in April 1972with astronauts John Young, Charles Duke and Thomas Mattingly.
He Apollo 17, the last mission of the Apollo project, landed on the moon December 1972 in the Tauro-Littrow valleyCommander Eugene Cernan, accompanied by geologist Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans, is the last person to have set foot on the Moon, a moment immortalized in a historic photo taken by Schmitt on his last lunar walk.
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