What were the short term effects of lunar landing?

Question

What were the effects of the lunar landing back in 1969 when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. There must be a lot of new coverage, and people going crazy. Are there any other thing effected by the lunar landing. If there are, can you give me some stats and data with it as well, cheers

Answer 1

Well, 600 million people watched it live on television.

The link below has just about every nit-picky fact you wanted to know about the Apollo missions.

Answer 2

Lots of people looking at the moon, thinking, "We finally did it!"

Answer 3

Having been alive at the time I can give you my impressions. I have not a shred of scholarly citations to offer.

Poets wrote poems, but most of these were not Americans. Commentators waxed eloquent on the milestone for humankind. Many called it the event of the century, if not the millennium, if not the most important event in all of human existence, unless perhaps it be tied for first place with the discovery of fire.

Then the whole idea became kind of ho-hum.

The image of the Earth seen from lunar orbit, first snapped during Christmas of '68, the crummiest year for American society I can remember, spoke to the environmental movement and became its symbol. The new appreciation for our fragile planet became, oddly, a kind of argument against sending men to the Moon any more. We have so much to do at home, so went the argument. If we can send a man to the moon, then why can't we cure hunger/disease/poverty/war/acid rain/smog/Nixon, etc. went the lament. So we stopped going to the Moon. The other stuff kind of keeps going on, in case nobody noticed.

(except Nixon. He resigned)

Answer 4

it seems bizarre with the technology that exists today we don't go back just for the h**l of it.  sad.  too bad we're currently wasting most of our budget on the wrong type of rockets.

short term effects of the 6 landings?  we probably pushed the moon another few angstroms away from earth.  we did leave a lot of c**p behind, too.  so much for zero impact camping trips to other celestial bodies.