Yes, but they all should've just stayed there to build an ATMOSPHERE on the moon. All they had to do was drill a shaft halfway down the center of the moon and insert a Superconducting Ring that is cryogenically sealed in liquid helium, (much like an MRI machine and there are several companies which specialize in this technology). The Superconducting Ring would range from 4 to 14 Tesla, depending on the amount of iron/nickel resident in the core. Once the Superconducting Ring is supercooled to transition into a superconducting state (kelvins), a permanent magnet is used to induce a current. This current is said to "persist" forever (persistent currents in physics). Using a magnetometer, you'd measure the magnetic field at a given point on the surface of the globe, if it's within 0.5 to 2.0 Gauss, it's a viable atmospheric bubble. Next, pump in nitrogen, oxygen and co2 and bring grass seeds and voila, an atmosphere.
NASA has discovered 169 moons in our Solar System and our Milky Way Galaxy has cannabilized smaller galaxies, for a total of 235+ planetary bodies/moons. We should be building restaurants all over the Milky Way Galaxy.
Another approach they could have used was to create/enhance the internal "Dynamo" in a globe which spins on its axis. If the globe is geologically active, it might have a light atmosphere owing to the "eddy currents" arising from the spinning of molten iron/nickel in the core. This creates the surface gravity which holds the atmosphere to a planet. To increase the surface gravity, you would have to drill a shaft halfway down the center of the globe and pour molten iron/nickel down the shaft, and add some radioactive element like polonium to keep it molten forever. Once the magnetic field strength at a point on the surface of the globe is 0.5 to 2.0 Gauss, it's a viable atmospheric bubble capable of holding down life sustaining gases like nitrogen, oxygen and CO2.
The space station cost $93 Billion to build over 25 years. What a waste of $, they should have spent the $ HAULING WATER to the moon and Mars. Instead they spent millions$ looking for water all over the universe. Water and carbon dioxide are the 2 main byproducts of hydrocarbon (propane, butane, gasoline, jet fuels) combustion.
2007-10-29 11:21:37
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answered by princess leia 4
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12 people have actually landed on the moon. Armstrong and Aldrin were the first two, They landed during the Apollo 11 mission. Apollo 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 also landed two men each. I can only think of Harrison Schmidt, John Young, Eugene Cernan.
Try the following link for more info:
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/history/apollo/apollo.htm
2007-10-29 18:00:29
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answered by David Bowman 7
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There have been 12 people that have stepped foot on the moon over 6 different Apollo missions.
In each mission, there was a third astronaut that remained aboard the orbiting vehicle and so did not land on the moon.
If you go to wikipedia and search on "Apollo Program" you can find a lot of information on the missions (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17) both as a whole and individually.
2007-10-29 18:51:18
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes, 10 others:
Pete Conrad
Alan Bean
Alan Shepard
Edgar Mitchell
David Scott
James Irwin
John W. Young
Charles Duke
Eugene Cernan
Harrison Schmitt
2007-10-29 17:57:33
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answered by Tony 3
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I think people should be exiled to the moon and Mars who have AIDS and all these other communicable diseases, much like lepers were exiled to leper colonies/islands to quarantine them. We need some radical steps to accomplish this. Sedate them and buckle 'em into spaceships with a space warden. Or a lunar Alcatraz, something akin to that.
"The Earth is the cradle of civilization, but one cannot remain in the cradle forever". (who said that?) It's time we humans got up and started crawling to the moon. Oh yes, the moon is moving away from us as we speak.
fyi - Buzz Aldrin just dedicated a new Engineering college at Purdue University.
2007-10-30 04:27:17
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answered by delta dawn 4
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yes:
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin - Apollo 11
Pete Conrad and ALan Bean - Apollo 12
Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell - Apollo 14
David Scott and James Irwin - Apollo 15
John Young and Charles Duke - Apollo 16
Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt - Apollo 17
2007-10-29 17:56:13
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answered by pab 7
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Yes, 12 men have been on the moon. There were 6 missions in which 2 men landed on the moon.
2007-10-29 18:20:14
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answered by Jeffrey K 7
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yes, there was twelve in total, the others were from apollo's 12,14,15,16,17. The last men to walk on the moon were Eugine Cernan and Harrison Schmitt in December of 1972
2007-10-29 18:01:49
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answered by The One 5
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