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In the US, yesterday marked 40 years since the first man landed on the moon, US astronaut Apollo 11 mission, one of the most remarkable events of the 20th century, which is in the transmission of TV and radio audience of around 600 million people.
That on July 20, 1969, in 16:18 hours Eastern time, halting lake powell voice of Neil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 mission, announced ushićenoj audience on Earth: "Houston, this base Mir. Eagle has landed", with the eruption of enthusiasm in mission control.
Improvising and manually controlling the lunar module Eagle, Armstrong put it down in an area called the Sea of Tranquility, avoiding the numerous rocks. lake powell In the last seconds of descent, computer Eagle sounded the alarm that later proved faulty, and when the aircraft landed, the rest is fuel for just 30 seconds into the flight, according to the US space agency NASA.
Armstrog and Aldrin half past two o'clock explored the lunar surface, collecting samples and taking photographs. Behind them they left the American flag, a memorial to the fallen crew of Apollo 1, and a memorial plaque on one of the legs of the lower stages of Eagle, with the text:
The mission of Apollo 11 began on 16 July with the launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the giant Saturn lake powell V rocket carrier, to date the largest and most powerful rocket for space flight, 110 meters high and the thrust force of 3350 tons.
After half past one orbit around the Earth, Apollo 11 to the moon moves away 384,000 kilometers, in whose orbit comes three days later. The next day, Armstrong and Aldrin separated in the lunar module Eagle and begin our descent.
After Apollo 11, in the next three and a half years, another lake powell 10 American astronauts marching moon, to the last Apollo 17 in December 1972, which was the last time that people lake powell are traveling in space outside the earth's lake powell orbit.
American racing for landing on Moon began with the fear that the Russians already surpassed in the universe, after, in April 1961, Russian cosmonaut lake powell Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.
Congress approved the separation of about six billion dollars a year for the Apollo program, a total of 25 billion, which is equivalent to 140 billion today, to the United States beat the Soviet Union to the moon and perhaps to Mars.
NASA plans to build a permanent manned lake powell station on one of the lunar poles, but financing this program is questionable, as the funds from the initial 110 billion dollars in 2005, now reduced to about 70 billion, experts hold insufficient.