For the next few weeks we will be finishing off our All About Me topic by finding out about our solar system.
Our literacy text this week is about the moon landing in the 1960's.
Post a few facts about the moon - you might want to use this website to help
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Hi Mr gray I found stuff out about neil armstrong, buzz aldrin and michal collins!
Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, on August 4th, 1930. Neil Armstrongwas the first man to walk on the moon. He became very famous for his quote "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin was the second man to set foot on the moon. Alrin attended West Point, flew fighter jets in the Korean War, and then earned a doctorate in astronautesfrom the Massachusettts Institute of Technology before joining the NASA astronaut corps in October 1963.
Michal Collins
Michal Collins spent the years from 1907 to 1916 in England during which period he joined the Feian movement. He took part in the EasterRebellion in Dublin in 1916 and was imprisioned for the rest of the year.
Bye mr gray!
VENUS IS MADE UP NOF CENTRAL IRON CORE AND A ROCKY MANTLE,SIMILER TO THE COMPOSITION OF EARTH. ITS ATMOSPHERE IS MAINLY CARBON DIOXIDE(96%)AND NITROGEN(3%)WITH SMALL AMMOUNTS OF GASES
IT TAKES ABOUT THREE DAYS TO GET TO THE MOON IN A SPACE CRAFT TO REACH. THE MOON DURING THAT TIME A SPACE CRAFT TRAVELS ABOUT 24O.000 MILES (386,400)KILOMETRES WHICH IS THE DISTANCE FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON
The first man to walk on the moon was Neil Armstrong. He was first of all mankind to even touch the moon which is part of are solar system. The second man to walk on the moon was Buzz Aldren. The last man did not get to go on the moon because he had to fly the rocket. And his name is Michael collins.
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System. It is the largest natural satellite in the Solar System relative to the size of its planet. It is in the same rotation with Earth, always showing the same face; the near side is marked with dark volcanic maria among the bright ancient crustal highlands and prominent impact craters. It is the brightest object in the sky after the Sun, although its surface is actually very dark, with a similar reflectance to coal. Its prominence in the sky and its regular cycle of phases have since ancient times made the Moon an important cultural influence on language, the calendar, art and mythology. The Moon's gravitational influence produces the ocean tides and the minute lengthening of the day. The Moon's current orbital distance, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth, causes it to be the same size in the sky as the Sun—allowing the Moon to cover the Sun precisely in total solar eclipses.
After the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, the Moon has been visited only by unmanned spacecraft, notably by Soviet Lunokhod rovers. Since 2004, Japan, China, India, the United States, and the European Space Agency have each sent lunar orbiters. These spacecraft have contributed to confirming the discovery of lunar water ice in permanently shadowed craters at the poles and bound into the lunar regolith. Future manned missions to the Moon are planned but not yet underway; the Moon remains, under the Outer Space Treaty, free to all nations to explore for peaceful purposes.
i am so smart!?
There's a lot we know about the moon. It's roughly one-sixth the size of the Earth; it's about 4.6 billion years old; it's approximately 238,000 miles distant from the Earth; it has no atmosphere and no water (except what was recently found to exist as ice in craters near the poles); it's covered with an incredibly fine gray powder. We've walked on the moon six times during the Apollo missions, and we've sent many more probes there to map it and study it.
But there's much we don't know about it, too. We're not sure where it came from. Some think it might be a broken-off chunk of Earth. Although there's evidence that the moon once had active volcanoes, we're not sure if it's still geologically active (the prevailing theory is that it is not).
1 // It's black
Well, it's really more of a dark gray. The moon appears white because we have no point of comparison in the night sky. It's an optical illusion. If there were a truly white object next to it, the moon would look quite dingy.
2 // It has dust storms
Astronauts report that plumes of particles rise off the lunar surface at dusk and dawn—even though there's no wind. How? One theory is that solar radiation creates an electrostatic charge that lofts the dust into space.
3 // It's from here
The leading explanation of lunar origin, the so-called big whack hypothesis, posits that the orb was created when a planet-sized object slammed into Earth, knocking off a cloud of vaporized rock that eventually condensed into the moon.
Read More http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/st_3smartthings#ixzz12572II1A
•The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite
•Because the Moon keeps the same face turned pointed towards the Earth it is in synchronous rotation
•Early on when the Moon initially came into Earth's gravitational field it became locked in this synchronous rotation
•The Moon rotates on its own axis about once for every 27.3 days as it takes to rotate the Earth.
•The Moon is the 5th largest satellite in the Solar System
•Distance from Earth to its Moon is 384,403 km (centre-to-centre)
•Earth's Moon is about 30 times the diameter of the Earth
•It was not discovered until 1665 that other planets had natural satellites as well, at which point "moon" started to be dropped and instead referred to as "The Moon"
•There is no "Dark Side of the Moon" - the Moon rotates around the Earth and so all sides of the Moon are hit hit by the Sun at some point. However there is a "Far Side of the Moon" which is the side facing away from Earth.
•When the Moon is in the sky all day but lies in direction of the Sun its night side faces Earth so no lunar surface is visible. This is often incorrectly referred to as "New Moon" but should be referred to as "No Moon".
•Although much of what the Moon is composed of is not thoroughly known, what is known has come from what has been collected and brought back to Earth (by the Apollo missions) and by studies performed on the Moon itself, as well as from remote studying using telescopes. The Moon used to have volcanoes which brought igneous rock to the surface containing feldspar, quartz, and olivine, and unique to the Moon tranquillityite, armalcolite, and pyroxferroite.
•The Moon moves a distance the size of its own diameter in about 2 minutes (1/2 degree). This is particularly relevant for photographers shooting pictures of the Moon.
•Whenever the Moon is above the horizon then Lunar eclipses are visible.
•An orbitting space shuttle travels at more than 27,000 kilometres an hour.
•Temperatures on the Moon can drop to 250 degrees below zero.
•The sound of the space shuttle taking off registers over 200 decibels.
•Highest sighting on Earth of a bird (vulture) was at an elevation of 37,900 feet. The vulture was sucked into a jet engine above the Ivory Coast.
•The Armstrong Line is at 62,000 feet above Earth where blood boils without a pressurized suit.
•To break out of the Earth's gravitational field NASA's latest rockets will have to accelerate to speeds of over 24,000 miles per hour (about 23 times the speed of sound).
•Moon soil contains metal oxides along with 40% oxygen by weight.
•Heating Moon dust to 800 degree Centigrade will turn it into water.
•The International Space Station has cost American taxpayers at least $31 billion so far
•The International Space Station collectively weighs over 700,000lbs
•The 3rd country into space was Canada.
•Canada has sent the 4th most number of visitors into space.
•NASA's budget for the year 2009: $19billion.
•Total spending by NASA from 1958 to 2008 totals over $416billion.
•NASA is the acronym for: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
•Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first to walk on the moon's surface by landing the lunar module Eagle on the "Sea of Tranquility".
•A full moon is about 5 times brighter than a half-moon.
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Great blog Mr Gray
Neil Armstrong is famous for being the first person to land on the Moon and land the first spacecraft on the Moon. His love of flying began when he was a teenager.
As well as being an astronaut and a pilot, Armstrong was also a college professor.
Neil Armstrong has flown more than 200 different types of aircraft
After the Apollo 11 crew returned home from the Moon landing, they went through an 18-day quarantine. They then went on a 45-day tour around the world called the “Giant Leap” tour. The Apollo 11 mission was not Armstrong’s first mission in space. He was commander of the Gemini 8 mission. Neil Armstrong has had many things named after him including over a dozen schools and a song. He also had an asteroid and a crater on the Moon named after him in his honor.
Neil Armstrong was also the first person to dock two spacecraft in space
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FANTASTIC posts tonight
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Mr G
THE MOON
The Moon is the only celestial object close enough to be able to make out its details with the naked eye. We know more about the Moon than anything else in the Solar System apart from the Earth of course. Countless telescopes and spacecraft have scrutinised it in great detail, and men have even walked on its surface.
My dad told me this story about 3 bros who he and his bros grew up with. One was called Sun, one was called Moon... what was the other one called?? leave your answer on the blog.
About Buzz Aldrin
In 1969 Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the second man to walk on the Moon when he followed Neil Armstrong onto the lunar surface. Armstrong and Aldrin landed their spacecraft Eagle in an area of the Moon called the Sea of Tranquillity and explored the surface for more than two hours. A Korean War combat pilot, Aldrin also flew aboard the Gemini 12 spacecraft in 1966 in preparation for the historic Apollo 11 landing
Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930 in Rome, Italy) is a former American astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew in space twice. His first spaceflight was Gemini 10, in which he and command pilot John Young performed two rendezvous with different spacecraft and Collins undertook two EVAs. His second spaceflight was as the command module pilot for Apollo 11. While he orbited the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the first manned landing on the lunar surface. He is one of only 24 humans to have flown to the Moon
The Cold War-inspired space race between the Soviet Union and the U.S. led to an acceleration of interest in exploration of the Moon. Once launchers had the necessary capabilities, these nations sent unmanned probes on both flyby and impact/lander missions. Spacecraft from the Soviet Union's Luna program were the first to accomplish a number of goals: following three unnamed, failed missions in 1958,[116] the first man-made object to escape Earth's gravity and pass near the Moon was Luna 1; the first man-made object to impact the lunar surface was Luna 2, and the first photographs of the normally occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3, all in 1959.
The first spacecraft to perform a successful lunar soft landing was Luna 9 and the first unmanned vehicle to orbit the Moon was Luna 10, both in 1966.[39] Rock and soil samples were brought back to Earth by three Luna sample return missions (Luna 16, 20, and 24), which returned 0.3 kg total.[117] Two pioneering robotic spacecrafts of rover type landed on the Moon in 1970 and 1973 as a part of Soviet Lunokhod programme.
American lunar exploration began with robotic missions aimed at developing understanding of the lunar surface for an eventual manned landing: the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Surveyor program landed its first spacecraft four months after Luna 9. NASA's manned Apollo program was developed in parallel; after a series of unmanned and manned tests of the Apollo spacecraft in Earth orbit, and spurred on by a potential Soviet lunar flight, in 1968 Apollo 8 made the first crewed mission to lunar orbit.
The moon orbits Earth at a speed of 2,288 miles per hour (3,683 kilometers per hour). During this time it travels a distance of 1,423,000 miles (2,290,000 kilometers
Twelve astronauts walked on the moon between 1969 and 1972. They were part of the six Apollo missions which each landed two astronauts on the moon's surface
Moon light:The moon does not make its own light, instead the light we see from the moon is really sunlight that is reflected from the moon's surface.
Only twelve men have ever set foot on the moon. The last of these was in 1972.
Only twelve men have ever walked on the moon. To explore space these men had to take their atmosphere with them. Earth atmosphere is 20% oxygen and 80% nitrogen and at 75 miles above the surface that changes.
At 63,000 feet above the earth astronauts must wear special spacesuits to provide the correct atmosphere and pressure. At that altitude bodily fluids would boil without the artificial maintenance of pressure. Their spacesuits were the only thing that kept these pioneers of space travel alive.
Read more: http://scienceray.com/astronomy/12-men-that-walked-on-the-moon/#ixzz12B0QFAAn
Only twelve men have ever set foot on the moon. The last of these was in 1972.
Only twelve men have ever walked on the moon. To explore space these men had to take their atmosphere with them. Earth atmosphere is 20% oxygen and 80% nitrogen and at 75 miles above the surface that changes.
At 63,000 feet above the earth astronauts must wear special spacesuits to provide the correct atmosphere and pressure. At that altitude bodily fluids would boil without the artificial maintenance of pressure. Their spacesuits were the only thing that kept these pioneers of space travel alive.
Read more: http://scienceray.com/astronomy/12-men-that-walked-on-the-moon/#ixzz12B0QFAAn
Twelve people have walked on the Moon. All human landings took place between July 1969 and December 1972, as part of the Apollo program.
Name Born Died Age at
first step Mission Lunar EVA dates Employer
1. Neil Armstrong August 5, 1930 38y 11m 15d Apollo 11 July 21, 1969[3] NASA[4]
2. Buzz Aldrin January 20, 1930 39y 6m 0d Air Force
3. Pete Conrad June 2, 1930 July 8, 1999 39y 5m 17d Apollo 12 November 19–20, 1969 Navy
4. Alan Bean March 15, 1932 37y 8m 4d Navy
5. Alan Shepard November 18, 1923 July 21, 1998 47y 2m 18d Apollo 14 February 5–6, 1971 Navy
6. Edgar Mitchell September 17, 1930 40y 4m 19d Navy
7. David Scott June 6, 1932 39y 1m 25d Apollo 15 July 31 – August 2, 1971 Air Force
8. James Irwin March 17, 1930 August 8, 1991 41y 4m 14d Air Force
9. John W. Young September 24, 1930 41y 6m 28d Apollo 16 April 21–23, 1972 Navy
10. Charles Duke October 3, 1935 36y 6m 18d Air Force
11. Eugene Cernan March 14, 1934 38y 9m 7d Apollo 17 December 11–14, 1972 Navy
12. Harrison Schmitt July 3, 1935 37y 5m 8d NASA
Twelve people have walked on the Moon. All human landings took place between July 1969 and December 1972, as part of the Apollo program.
Name Born Died Age at
first step Mission Lunar EVA dates Employer
1. Neil Armstrong August 5, 1930 38y 11m 15d Apollo 11 July 21, 1969[3] NASA[4]
2. Buzz Aldrin January 20, 1930 39y 6m 0d Air Force
3. Pete Conrad June 2, 1930 July 8, 1999 39y 5m 17d Apollo 12 November 19–20, 1969 Navy
4. Alan Bean March 15, 1932 37y 8m 4d Navy
5. Alan Shepard November 18, 1923 July 21, 1998 47y 2m 18d Apollo 14 February 5–6, 1971 Navy
6. Edgar Mitchell September 17, 1930 40y 4m 19d Navy
7. David Scott June 6, 1932 39y 1m 25d Apollo 15 July 31 – August 2, 1971 Air Force
8. James Irwin March 17, 1930 August 8, 1991 41y 4m 14d Air Force
9. John W. Young September 24, 1930 41y 6m 28d Apollo 16 April 21–23, 1972 Navy
10. Charles Duke October 3, 1935 36y 6m 18d Air Force
11. Eugene Cernan March 14, 1934 38y 9m 7d Apollo 17 December 11–14, 1972 Navy
12. Harrison Schmitt July 3, 1935 37y 5m 8d NASA
About Saturn's rings
Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus also have faint rings but they don't compare to Saturn's spectacular system of seven rings. The rings are about 170,000 miles (270,000km) in diameter but their maximum thickness is only about 330ft (100m) - they are very difficult to see when viewed edge on from the Earth. Each ring is composed of many ringlets of ice particles, which vary from dust-sized to up to 10ft (3m) or more in diameter. Some of Saturn's small moons such as Prometheus appear to keep the rings in place and are known as shepherd moons.
Photo: Saturn backlit by the Sun taken by the Cassini probe (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)
The moon is made by rokes and dust
Ever heard of a process called cold welding? It’s a process when two metals are stuck together in space. Two pieces of metal without coating on them will then begin to form as one. It’s not a big problem to space stations because their already coated with material from Earth.
The light hitting Earth right now is at least a third of the sun’s age. When the sun’s core was born, the light would travel through atoms.30,000 years ago, when the sun was at least half its size, the sunlight use to reach Earth 8 minutes because it took most of its time passing through dense particles found in the sun.
there is no atmosphere on the moon or no gravity on the moon.
For 1 day on earth it would be 2 weeks on the moon. It takes 24 hour for the world to go round but it takes 2 week for the moon to go round.
there is no atmosphere on the moon or no gravity on the moon.
For 1 day on earth it would be 2 weeks on the moon. It takes 24 hour for the world to go round but it takes 2 week for the moon to go round.
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