Crewed Moon landing: Saturn V, Lunar Module and A7L suit
Alunizaje tripulado: Saturno V, módulo lunar y traje A7L
- Date
- 1969 · confidence high
- Place
- Kennedy Space Center, Florida, United States; Lunar Module by Grumman, Bethpage, New York; suit by ILC Dover, Delaware
- Credited to
- NASA (Wernher von Braun, rocket; Tom Kelly, Lunar Module; ILC Dover, suit); Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
- People
- 👤 Buzz Aldrin1930–👤 Neil Armstrong1930–2012
- Field
- Movement
What was discovered
On 20 July 1969 two humans set foot on the Moon in a vehicle designed only for the vacuum of space, wearing 21-layer suits and using a guidance computer with integrated circuits. It was the greatest technological undertaking of the Cold War.
What it led to
- The symbolic US victory in the space race and the détente that followed
- The integrated-circuit industry, funded by the Apollo Guidance Computer
- The view of Earth from outside and the environmental movement
Built on
- Lunar orbit rendezvous (Kondratyuk)1916-1929
- Magnetic-core memory1951
- Integrated circuit (Kilby)1958
- Human spaceflight (Vostok 1) and SK-1 spacesuit1961
- First orbital docking (Gemini 8)16 de marzo de 1966
- Luna 9: first soft landing on the Moon3 de febrero de 1966
- Apollo 8: first crewed lunar orbit21-27 de diciembre de 1968
- R-7 and V-2 rockets
- crewed Vostok flight
Made possible
- Apollo Guidance Computer
- complex project management
- Artemis