How many times has man landed on the moon?

Question

When was the last time man landed?
Also give the names of the missions and the men...since then why haven't we sent anyone?

As I understand the last human landing took place in 1972.What have we been doing since then?why haven't we sent any more humane???

Answer 1

Six.
Apollo 11, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins
Apollo 12, 1969, Charles (Pete) Conrad, , Alan Bean, Richard Francis Gordon
Apollo 14, 1971, Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, Stuart Roosa
Apollo 15, 1971, David Scott, James Irwin, Alfred Worden
Apollo 16, 1972, John Young, Charles Duke, Thomas Mattingly
Apollo 17, 1972, Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, Ronald Evans

Apollo 13 did not land due to a mechanical problem that nearly killed the crew. The 3rd man listed in each mission did not walk on the Moon, but instead stayed in orbit around the Moon in the command module while the other two landed in the lunar module.

Since 1972 we have not ventured above low Earth orbit. Apollo 18, 19 and 20 were actually built but congress cut the program off before they could be launched and those three space vehicles are now on display now in Houston, Huntsville and Cape Canaveral. The reason for not going to the Moon again was the high cost and danger, combined with the public loosing interest in the program. The feeling was, been there, done that, so why keep spending billions to do it again and again. But we ARE spending billions to just go up into low Earth orbit again and again, and I would personally rather see us going to the Moon instead. And NASA would like it too, but they need money from congress to do it. There is a plan to go back, but since they cannot just stop work on the Shuttle and space station and other programs and they don't have enough money to keep doing those other things and start a new Moon program too, the plan is to use what money is available over a period of 15 or 20 years to go back. I suspect congress will kill the project before it gets completed though, due to the cost.

Answer 2

On 20th July 1969, a man set foot on an extra-terrestrial surface for the very first time in history. This man was Neil Armstrong, and his words, "This is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," became probably the most famous words of the Twentieth Century. It was announced in 1962 by the American president, John F. Kennedy, that the Americans would put a man on the moon by the end of that decade. At the time, America was losing the space-race against the Russians, who had launched rockets outside Earth's atmosphere and were the first to send astronauts (or cosmonauts) into space (Yuru Gagarin in 1961). After also sending the first man on a space walk in 1965 (Alexei Leonov was the first man to step out of a space craft in space), the Russians started losing the race. After many practice flights and orbits around the Moon from 1966, American astronauts were ready to walk on its surface in 1969.

Apollo 11 was the name of the first mission to land on the Moon. Neil Armstrong was first, with Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin as the second man. Their footsteps remain on the surface of the Moon now, and will remain there for millions of years. A few months after, Apollo 12 landed two more astronauts on the Moon on 14th November. Apollo 13 headed for the Moon, but an explosion on the space-craft caused the mission to be cancelled, and the astronauts to have to return to Earth, using a home-made piece of equipment to prevent poisonous carbon dioxide from building up in the space craft. After that, four more missions landed men on the Moon, with Apollo 17 being the last on 7th December 1972. Since then, no man has set foot on the Moon.

From the Apollo missions, we discovered how the Moon's surface temperature can be extremely hot and extremely cold, depending on whether it is receiving sunlight or not. The Moon's surface is also dry and chalky. However, orange rocks on the surface provide evidence of volcanic activity once in the Moon's history. Most importantly, the Apollo missions proved that man can walk on another world, something that would have been unimaginable one hundred years earlier.

Answer 3

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How many times has man landed on the moon?
When was the last time man landed?
Also give the names of the missions and the men...since then why haven't we sent anyone?

Answer 4

Nine Apollo missions and six landings.
I love to see the youngsters claiming we didn't go to the moon cause it doesn't look like my computer game or the photos are faked.
It was 1969! Look at the Sci-Fi movies of that year and see how bad the special effects were. Hollywood was state of the art. The best possible at that time. No way could they have faked those videos. Hollywood couldn't even come close to them with special effects in 1969-1972.

Answer 5

Six,

There were 6 Apollo missions that landed on the Moon: Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17. Two missions in each of 1969, 1971 and 1972.

Mission: Apollo 11
Commander: Armstrong
Command Module Pilot: Collins
Lunar Module Pilot: Aldrin
Command Module Name: Columbia
Lunar Module Name: Eagle
Launch Date: July 16, 1969
Duration of Flight: 08d 03h 18m 35s
First manned landing on the Moon, July 20.

Mission: Apollo 12
Commander: Conrad
Command Module Pilot: Gordon
Lunar Module Pilot: Bean
Command Module Name: Yankee Clipper
Lunar Module Name: Intrepid
Launch Date: November 14, 1969
Duration of Flight: 10d 04h 36m 24s
First precise manned landing on the Moon. Recovered part of Surveyor 3 probe.

Apollo 13 was launched April 11, 1970 but the oxygen tank exploded en route, forcing cancellation of the landing and the mission to be aborted.

Mission: Apollo 14
Commander: Shepard
Command Module Pilot: Roosa
Lunar Module Pilot: Mitchell
Command Module Name: Kitty Hawk
Lunar Module Name: Antares
Launch Date: January 31, 1971
Duration of Flight: 09d 00h 01m 58s
Alan Shepard, the sole astronaut of the Mercury MR-3 mission - and thus the first American in space - walks (and plays golf) on the Moon.

Mission: Apollo 15
Commander: Scott
Command Module Pilot: Worden
Lunar Module Pilot: Irwin
Command Module Name: Endeavour
Lunar Module Name: Falcon
Launch Date: July 26, 1971
Duration of Flight: 12d 07h 11m 53s
First mission with the Lunar Rover vehicle.

Mission: Apollo 16
Commander: Young
Command Module Pilot: Mattingly
Lunar Module Pilot: Duke
Command Module Name: Casper
Lunar Module Name: Orion
Launch Date: April 16, 1972
Duration of Flight: 11d 01h 51m 05s
First landing in the lunar highlands.

Mission: Apollo 17
Commander: Cernan
Command Module Pilot: Evans
Lunar Module Pilot: Schmitt
Command Module Name: America
Lunar Module Name: Challenger
Launch Date: December 7, 1972
Duration of Flight: 12d 13h 51m 59s
Final Apollo lunar mission, first night launch, only mission with a professional geologist.

The Command module pilot, in each case, did not walk on the Moon but remained in orbit, eg espying out possible landing sites for the next mission.

We have not been back as Congress cut the budget and the Russians had given up trying.

Now, however, with Indian and Chinese capability to go to the moon being established, and there being an interest in mining helium-3 (blown to the moon by the solar wind) as a nuclear fusion fuel for future spaceflights, there is a space race to win, all over again,

Answer 6

Even if the missions were ambitious, it's what they did on arrival that didn't seem as ambitious...it seems to me they only went there once...cause how can you tell me they went several times, what did they do those other times...first time to put a flag on the moon, second time to put a foot print, third time to check on the flag to c if its still there, fourth time to check on the foot print and possibly carve out the footprint so it's visible, fifth time to check on the foot print and the flag...oh! they're still there...sixth time to make a video of the flag and foot print...thumbs up.

Answer 7

Nobody was on the moon that s why Russia didnt clame any lunar landing

Answer 8

I dont believe Man has EVER landed on the moon......because there was a film made in case Man did'nt make it by end of 1969....like J.F.K. declared....AND the ONLY photo's ( video ) You EVER SEE is the same one...over and over and over...so if Man did land on moon,You would have ALOT MORE videos or photo's in circulation !

Answer 9

http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonmiss/

has all the asnwers plus a whole load more! We dont send everyone nilly willy as its costs millions of pounds just to send one rocket up there, and thats not even taking into consideration the astranaut training, support team training and setting up and running costs etc.

Answer 10

NONE and we now know earth is flat, eric dubay vids