What Did We Learn From The Apollo 11 Moon Landing?

45 years ago, astronauts aboard the Apollo 11 landed on the moon! What did we learn from this historic mission? DNews welcomes Dr. Ian O'Neill and space historian Amy Shira Teitel to discuss all the reasons why this mission was such a success. #Apollo45

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Apollo 11 Mission: Mission Overview
"The Apollo 11 mission was the eleventh in a series of flights using Apollo flight hardware and was the first lunar landing of the Apollo Program. It was also the fifth manned flight of the command and service modules and the third flight of the lunar module. The purpose of the mission was to perform a manned lunar landing and return safely to Earth."

Apollo 11 Mission: Science Experiments
"In addition to their sample collection activities, the Apollo 11 crew performed several experiments on the lunar surface. The results of some of these experiments were either radioed to Earth by the crew or returned to Earth for laboratory analysis."

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[Lutranereis]

I've given this some thought over the years. Should we go back to the moon with manned missions? My conclusion is a resounding no. 

If we're just going to the moon to prove that we can, we've done that. There's no need to prove it again. If we're going there for exploration purposes, then it's difficult to justify a manned mission over sending robotic missions instead. 

That leaves us with a mission like what we have with the ISS, where we would perform experiments in about 17% the gravity of Earth, and test how humans adapt to that environment. That might sound interesting, but in reality it's an expensive mission. We could spend that money elsewhere in science and learn far more useful things.

And if people think we'd go there to mine resources, we're already planning to capture an asteroid. Mining asteroids are trivial compared to mining the moon. 

I just can't think of a good reason to do manned missions to the moon. 

[JokerPokerRP]

There is nothing to find on a moon... However if we were to somehow build a sustainable NASA base on a moon, with telescopes and other stuff like that...well that would be really useful!

[MrSlizzard]

Rarely comment, but watch these vids like a madman, KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!

[michaelfrymus]

How do I sign up to be the next astronaut to go to the moon? (hoping they do it again one day)

[Hendlton]

Just 2 hours?I'd love to be on the Moon for a few minutes!

[madkent]

heck yeas lets please go back. In my 20s now when I was 10 the moon landing is what got me interested in science.

[atlmz]

YES! I think we should do this before any missions to Mars.

[VariantAEC]

Amy seems nice calm not too excited or too bored. I think this video worked out well with the two of you conversing back and forth. It just seemed to flow better than some other videos.

Personally I still don't think we landed on the moon. The reflectors and flag don't prove anything to me as we have many rovers on mars. Several of which we lost one of which could have been used to place flags and so forth. The most biting truth is we've not gone back to even orbit the moon. It seems really easy for people to fake the landing mission as well. With the New camera tech we have looking on earth why not look on the moon too? Satellites orbit the moon right? Why do those cameras suck so bad we can't tell if the flags are still standing, but on Google Earth I can tell what species of rabbit is crossing a street?

[TorahOfMessiah]

SciShow not only did it first, they did it better.

[TheJaredtheJaredlong]

Seems like there'd be some benefits to at least having an observatory on the Moon, like Hubble, but since it could be launched in pieces and then assembled in place, it could potentially be much larger, deliver higher quality photos, and be far more versatile in what exactly it can detect. Maybe robots could build it remotely, and then a manned mission goes just to carefully check everything.

[ryanburke]

I think its stunning how american enginering landed a man on the moon, on the flip side I play KSP

[AWESOMESAUSEY]

I say we go back. It's close, beautiful, and you can discover so much more about earth and the solar system. Oh and jump really high that would be cool.

[Zilmayjaink]

People, you are not aware how really far are 384, 000 km of vacuum space, reaching the moon is an outstanding achievement even with today's engineering, tecnolgy and money.

[Aubatron]

I'd like to see some actual HD footage of a moon landing and a moon walk.

[evbmvp]

It's very debatable with many valid arguments but ultimately I believe we'll need to soon.

[armybeast]

I think we should go back, and start testing how stuff is affected by the moons gravity

[fanofswitchfoot]

we should try putting a small base on the moon, sort of a test bed for other planets like mars.

[CharlesStacyII]

It's long past time for us to have a moon base

[rudyvaldez]

It's good practice for when we go to mars

[TheRomanRuler]

We should go to mars next, it is a big task, but so was moon landing at the time. And going to mars might teach a lot more than moon landing.