[GeoStL] Re: NGR-Apollo 11 anniversary
- From: Bob TheCacher <cachefinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:30:14 -0500
Here is a few facts about the Apollo 11 mission you probably didn't know about:
1 The computers had less processing power than a cellphone.
2. Drinking water was a fuel-cell by-product, but Apollo 11's hydrogen-gas
filters didn't work, making every dring bubbly.
3. One astronaut spent his entire mission on anti-diarrha drug because they
didn't have "zero gravity" toilets yet.
4. When Apollo 11's lunar lander, the Eagle, separated from the orbiter, the
cabin wasn't fully depressurized, resulting in a burst of gas equivalent to
popping a champagne cork. It threw the module's landing 4 miles off-target.
5. Pilot Neil Armstrong nearly ran out of fuel landing the Eagle, and many at
mission control worried he might crash.
6. The "One small step for man" wasn't actually that small. Armstrong set the
ship down so gently that its shock absorbers didn't compress and lock down. He
had to hop 3.5 feet from the Eagle's ladder to the surface.
7. When Buzz Aldrin joined Armstrong on the surface, he had to make sure not
to lock the Eagle's door because ther was no outside handle.
8.Planting the flag was a monumental task. Studies suggested that th lunar
soil was soft, but they found it was a thin dust over rock. The managed to
drive the flagpole a few inches into the ground and film it for broadcast and
then took care not to accidently knock it over! By the way, the flag was made
by Sears, but NASA refused to acknowledge this to avoid another "Tang".
Just thought you might like to know.
Bob Pratt, BBD1
McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co.
Now a division of Boeing.
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:41:55 -0500
Subject: [GeoStL] NGR-Apollo 11 anniversary
From: showme69@xxxxxxxxx
To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
NASA is recreating the mission online.
http://wechoosethemoon.org/
Gale
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