Objects in space should float then how Neil Armstrong managed to land on moon?

Question

It is said that all objects in space float because of the lack of gravitational pull. How did neil armstrong land on moon where there is no gravitational pull

Answer 1

The Moon has it's own gravity. It isn't as strong as the Earth's which explains why their movement wasn't as limited while they were there.

Answer 2

Neil Armstrong was the first man to land on the moon - this was July 20 1969. 5 other manned missions after that, the last one Apollo 17 in 1972. Lots of reasons there were no missions after that. The American people were getting bored with moon missions, there were more important things going on (like the Vietnam War, Watergate, etc). The funding NASA got was needed for Skylab (which was more politically viable). There wasn't much more they could do with short 2-man missions - the technology for larger and longer missions just didn't exist with the kind of funding that was available.

Answer 3

"It is said that all objects in space float because of the lack of gravitational pull. How did neil armstrong land on moon where there is no gravitational pull?"

So... by extension, the earth is in space, so.... I am in space.... so I can float around...?

Hey it works! It does make it hard though... I keep drifting away from my keyboard.....

Answer 4

But there IS gravity on the moon -- it is just about 1/6th that on Earth.

People who say there is no gravity in space are wrong -- gravity is EVERYWHERE. But the farther you get from a large mass (the Moon, the Earth, the Sun, etc.), the smaller the acceleration force due to gravity, which diminishes according to the inverse square law. So "weightlessness" is really a misnomer -- there is gravity in orbit, and an astronaut still has mass, thus he still has weight, it is just so small that it is difficult or impossible to measure.

Answer 5

The moon does have gravity only extremely weak so that objects instead of landing right back after going up float down very slowly

Answer 6

Well things would float if there were no gravity - who told you there's no gravity on the moon?

Clearly there is from the footage and obviously so, since its a large planetary body. It has less mass than the Earth so you'd only weight 1/6th your normal weight there.

Answer 7

He had a heavy weight on his back and on moon it weighed 1/6 as on earth so he was able to land

Answer 8

listen, in space there IS gravity.but it is tooo little to be considered.the sun's gravity holds the solar system together.the moon has 16% of the earth's gravity.that is why you have seen astronauts bouncing around in space.neil weighed a lot in the space suit he wore.that helped him land.weight also matters!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

Universe consists of places of zero gravitation or low gravitation or high gravitation.When there is zero gravitation then things, man etc will float e.g. vacuum space.Moon is a low gravitation place with gravitation of about 1/6 th that of Earth's gravitation.So he could land there.

Answer 10

Because the moon has gravity. What do you think create high tides and low tides on earth?

Thanks for the two points