The landing of a man on the moon turned 45 years old

Yes, today, July 20 - not a round anniversary of the landing of a man on a natural satellite of the Earth. The landing of a man on the moon occurred on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC.

A successful landing on the moon was carried out by the crew of the Apollo-11 , or rather, two crew members who went to the moon from the Apollo on the boarding module. Actually, we all know who first set foot on the surface of the moon: Neil Armstrong became that person. The landing area is the southwest part of the Sea of ​​Tranquility. By the way, astronauts not only walked on the Moon, but also traveled, although they could have flown .

After that, people landed five times on the surface of the Moon, from 1969 to 1972. After that, the lunar program was forgotten, allegedly due to the fact that in the US taxpayers were quickly bored with the moon gray landscapes, baseball was more interesting. Accordingly, the funds that had previously been allowed to develop the exploration of the moon had to be put on a different course closer to the taxpayers, they opposed the enormous costs of the lunar program. True, many overlook the fact that the groundwork of the lunar program (and the entire space program of the USSR / USA in general), and there were a huge number of them - technical innovations, new materials, new devices, became the basis for a further technological breakthrough, the consequences of which we feel still.
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Other states did not send their expeditions to the moon, for the most part, due to the fact that the lunar journeys required tremendous means (the United States and the Soviet Union during the space race almost “ruptured” economically), but such trips did not bring any real benefit ( scientific results).

Now, some experts say that it would be better for a person to not fly to the moon at that time, because right now, after landing on the moon, you could have already built a research station, albeit a small one. And then the technology did not allow to implement a reliable project of the lunar settlement / station.

After a long period of oblivion, the Moon was remembered again, although the same NASA agency has Mars as its main priority. But now other countries have expressed interest in the exploration of the moon, including, for example, China, which sent its own lunar rover. He showed quite interesting results, although he has been “freezing” since February of this year .

Anyway, landing a man on the Moon is a great achievement of science, technology and society as a whole.

We would like to see the first landing of a man on Mars soon. Before that, I suppose, is not far away.