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What time did neil armstrong land on the moon

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what time as in o clock did neal armstrong land on the moon

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  1. The conspiracy theories are completely without merit.  They are written by people with no training or experience in the relevant sciences such as astronautics or photographic interpretation.

    As to computing power, there is no inherent computational requirement to land on the Moon.  It doesn't strictly take a computer.  The Mercury spacecraft had no computer at all, and the Gemini spacecraft had only a rudimentary digital computer.  These spacecraft still flew and performed admirably.

    The proper question is whether the computer provided on the Apollo spacecraft could perform the tasks assigned to it, not whether it was more or less powerful than some other computer.  Replicas of the Apollo Guidance Computer are not beyond the capacity of modern-day hobbyists, and software emulations also exist.  The original program code for Apollo can still be obtained, and has run well enough in these modern recreations.  Put simply: no qualified computer scientist or engineer has a problem believing that the Apollo guidance system did what it was said to have done.


  2. 1.45 GMT, did you know he left his watch in the LEM? it was an Omega Speedmaster. Buzz Aldrin wore the first watch on the moon.

  3. he forgot his watch

  4. in what time zone? GMT? American Time? or some other zome

  5. It was about 1.45 GMT if I remember correctly.

    It was timed for US prime time TV hours.

  6. I don't think he had a sundial with him.

  7. Armstrong set the craft down at 4:17 P.M. (EDT),

  8. Neil Armstrong, born in 1930, one of the first civilian United States astronauts and the first human to set foot on the moon. Armstrong was the commander of the first Apollo program mission to land on the moon—Apollo 11—in July 1969. He also flew aboard a Gemini program mission in 1966 and has been a U.S. Navy combat pilot, test pilot, professor, businessman, and presidential adviser. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and numerous international awards for his service on Apollo 11.

    Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio. When he was 16 years old he began flying as a student pilot. He earned a navy scholarship and began attending Purdue University in 1947. In 1950 Armstrong began active duty with the navy for the Korean War. He flew fighter planes in Korea until 1952, when he returned to Purdue. Armstrong earned his B.S. degree in aeronautical engineering in 1955.

    Armstrong joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) at the Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1955, then transferred later that same year to the NACA Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California. He was a test pilot for many of the high-performance aircraft used to experiment with ideas for spacecraft. Armstrong left the Flight Research Center in 1962 to join the second group of U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut trainees.

    This second group of trainees included the first two civilian astronaut candidates, Armstrong and test pilot Elliot See. (See unfortunately died in a plane crash while training to be commander of Gemini 9.) After completing initial training at NASA, Armstrong served as a backup to the Gemini 5 crew, then became the command pilot of Gemini 8; David R. Scott also flew aboard Gemini 8. The mission launched March 16, 1966, with the primary objective of docking with another spacecraft. Gemini 8 rendezvoused with a used segment of a launch vehicle called an Agena booster 298 km (185 mi) above the earth, and Armstrong successfully docked the two craft together 6 hours and 34 minutes into the mission. Roughly 30 minutes later, the paired spacecraft began to rotate unexpectedly and without any command from the astronauts. The rotation eventually reached about 60 revolutions per minute. The astronauts and the ground crew reacted rapidly and diagnosed a short circuit in the thruster rocket that controlled Gemini 8’s orientation. Armstrong and Scott had to use roughly 75 percent of Gemini 8's fuel to stabilize the craft, forcing the mission to end early with an emergency reentry during the seventh orbit

    I think about 10:56 pm

  9. 16:50:35 UTC

  10. no man has been to the moon

  11. do you really believe they did land on the moon back then? I'm still undecided about that one. when you look at the conspiracy theories, the photo's etc, then the point of the pc used in the rocket was as power full as a digital watch today... mmm, still nice to think they did.

  12. At 4:17:40 P.M. EDT on July 20, a major portion of the earth population was listening to Armstrong's transmission, "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." At 10:56 P.M. EDT he set foot on the moon, saying, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

  13. he was on the moon, time is completely different on the moon than on the earth

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