10 Secrets About The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

10 Secrets About The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

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10 secrets about the Apollo 11 moon landing
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The Apollo 11 moon landing was the first time humans ever walked on the moon and has to be one of our
greatest achievements. The iconic pictures and audio from the mission will forever be a part of humankind’s
collective consciousness, but there are a handful of secrets from the mission that are not discussed enough.
Here are 10 secrets about the Apollo 11 moon landing.
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10) Buzz Aldrin took Holy Communion on the moon
When Apollo 111s Eagle lunar module landed on the moon on the 20 th of July, 1969,
astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had to wait a little before they stepped outside as
per their orders. Their mission required of them to take a breather before the big event.  So to
make use of this time, Aldrin decided to do something unexpected, something no man had
ever tried before. As he was alone and overwhelmed by nervousness and excitement, he took
part in the first Christian sacrament ever performed on the moon which was a rite of Christian
communion.
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9) Astronauts trained for microgravity by walking sideways
How do you even prepare to send someone to a place no one has ever stepped foot on?
NASA in the 1960s decided to do this by creating simulations that emulated scenarios or
things of what the astronauts could expect to encounter out in space. Armstrong and Aldrin
practiced collecting samples on fake, indoor moonscapes. Armstrong practiced taking off and
landing in the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle in Houston. And, to mimic walking in the lower-
gravity atmosphere of the moon, astronauts were suspended sideways by straps and then
walked along a tilted wall. NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey even blasted out craters at
Cinder Lake, Arizona to create a landscape that matched part of the moon’s surface because,
as you all know, practice makes one perfect.
8) The First words
Today we are here to clear up quite a big misconception. When Neil Armstrong took his first
step on the moon, what he really meant to say was “That’s one small step for a man.” There
have been arguments over whether a bad radio connection caused the mis-quote, or if
Armstrong had a case of universal stage fright and skipped over the tiny, yet important, word.
Speaking of those iconic first words, we know that Armstrong gets all the credit for saying the
first words on the moon, but “That’s one small step…” wasn’t the first sentence spoken on the

moon, hear us out. Bob Berman, who interviewed Buzz Aldrin years ago, tells a different story.
He says that Aldrin was actually the first man to speak on the moon, but his quote wasn’t quite
as charming. When they touched down, he simply said, “OK, engines stop.”
7) Armstrong was an excellent pilot
Although it seems like it should be a good thing, Armstrong landed the Eagle a tad too softly
on the surface of the moon. It is said that Armstrong was supposed to cut the engines when
the lander was a few feet from the surface. NASA scientists built the lander with legs that
would crumple upon landing to absorb the shock. Since Armstrong was such an incredible
pilot, the lander’s legs never crumpled. Thus that lead to the astronauts having to exit the
lander several feet higher than intended, which means that first small step was actually more
of a leap.
6) The Soviets tried to cover up their efforts
So it seems that the United States was not the only country that wanted to show its power and
standing by landing the first humans on the moon. The Soviet Union was also itching to
complete the feat. But once U.S. astronauts reached there first, the Soviets tried to put a veil
over their attempts. It was written in the Soviet newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda by a
journalist that at first, secrecy was necessary so that no one would overtake them, but later,
when they were overtaken, they had to maintain secrecy so that no one knew that they had
been overtaken.

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