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Title: Mankind has been on the moon for 50 years, looked up and forgotten

Original: 8-character intersection

In the United Kingdom of the last century, a song became Queen:

This song is "KillerQueen".

She stored Moet and Chandon in that beautiful cupboard

She said: "Let them eat cake!"

Like Queen Mary Anthony

Give Khrushchev and Kennedy a tranquilizer

……

This song made Queens popular overnight.

It sang the true psychological state of ordinary people during the Cold War.

Since the United States dropped two atomic bombs in Japan, mankind has entered a period of nuclear terror.

At the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were eye-catching. Each possessed tens of thousands of nuclear weapons, which could destroy the earth thousands of times.

This will be the first war without a victor in human history.

Even if one party completely destroys the other without harming himself, he will not survive the nuclear winter that follows.

The representatives of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, US President Kennedy, and Soviet leader Khrushchev, have become the two most stressed and most watched people in the world.

A cartoon was published in the New York Times and it appeared in Chinese middle school history books several years later: Kennedy and Khrushchev each stretched out one hand and was struggling to break their wrists, and the other hand was pressing against each other's Nuclear button.

All mankind stared at their hands, hoping to give them a tranquilizer.

The White House once received a letter signed as "a deeply worried citizen."

Dear Mr. President:

I am deeply worried that the Soviet Union may attack the United States, which will destroy our country, so I designed a moon bomb, which can save us.

I suggest that we build a huge rocket, its payload is a very long steel cable, one end is fixed to the earth.

Then, we launched a rocket to the moon, and the steel cable followed it up with it.

When the rocket lands on the moon, a robot will fix the other end of the steel cable to the moon. As the earth rotates, the steel cable will pull the moon over; as long as the time is properly calculated, the moon will smash the Soviet Union.

The moon, the celestial body that once illuminated all life on earth, has become a symbol of human fear and imagination.

In this context, humans landed on the moon on July 20, 1969.

The cold war is the biggest driving force.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of mankind’s landing on the moon.

Fifty years have passed, and the Cold War has long since become history. It's hard to say how much progress human beings have made.

We still live in doubt, fear, and mutual mistrust.

Many of those who have been looked up to have been forgotten.

01

Under the cloud of nuclear war, the Soviet Union not only used a rocket to send a dog and a person to space before the United States, but also sent a probe near the moon.

The meaning of this action is that I will not hit you now, but my rocket can fly into space, and I am capable of hitting you at any time. What are you looking at?

In the United States, it can only grit your teeth and endure, and can't say what's wrong with you.

At this time, the United States was unsuccessful in sending a satellite to the sky. The rocket was launched several times and exploded one after another.

The people were disappointed, and allies talked a lot.

The question was pushed into Kennedy's hands.

One thing must be done to restore Americans’ confidence in this country.

The 44-year-old Kennedy is the youngest president in the history of the United States. He is personable and is known as the dream lover of women all over the world.

His family is one of the leading families in the United States for wealth status. His father, Kennedy, once helped a man run for president successfully. This man was Franklin Roosevelt.

As a result, just a few days after he took the stage, he was slapped loudly by the old hat Khrushchev.

Where could Kennedy swallow this breath and set a small goal for the American people: to send people to the moon within ten years.

The moon landing plan "Project Apollo" was released.

Why name the moon landing plan after the sun god? Just because the then NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) director had a whim:

Human beings go to the moon like the sun **** Apollo driving a chariot across the sun, it sounds magnificent.

According to the plan, the moon landing will be divided into three steps.

The first step is called the Mercury Project, which is a mature master of the ability to send astronauts to the sky; the second step is called the Gemini Project, which is to send probes and spacecraft to the vicinity of the moon; the third step is to achieve the final landing of Apollo. plan.

From the time Galileo used a telescope to observe the craters on the moon, humans have not improved much in their understanding of the moon for hundreds of years.

The United States at that time was an anti-intellectual society (in fact, it is almost the same now).

When the plan to land on the moon was proposed, all kinds of rumors from the American people began to flood immediately:

The spacecraft will fall into the dust pile on the moon, and the astronauts will be buried alive before they come out;

There are terrifying underground creatures hidden under the moon, waiting for the astronauts sent from the earth to be eaten as jam pudding;

The moon landing may bring extraterrestrial viruses, and all humans will become extinct after infection...

Opportunities always belong to those who are prepared. When the president proposes a plan to land on the moon, NASA will naturally have to budget.

At that time, the United States spent approximately $600 million on spaceflight each year. A consultant suggested to the Secretary to make a smaller budget so that it would be easy to pass.

The secretary waved his hand: No! You do not understand!

He made an 8-year $20 billion plan and approved it smoothly.

Facts have proved that the director is still too conservative.

In a speech in 1962, Kennedy formally announced plans for the moon landing.

The speech mentioned that that year, the United States spent US$5.4 billion on spaceflight.

He quickly added a sentence:

The amount is staggering, but it still doesn't exceed the annual expenditure of Americans on cigarettes and cigars.

After spending so much money, Kennedy certainly wanted to eat more than one fish.

When the plan for the moon landing was made, the black civil rights movement in the United States was surging. The leader Martin Luther King later won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kennedy asked NASA: The selection of a few black astronauts can not only encourage black people to receive higher education, but also alleviate racial conflicts in American society.

Of course, there is a black civil rights movement because the rights of black people are indeed suppressed.

There are fewer blacks in the army and fewer pilots. Dozens of white pilots were quickly selected as candidate astronauts, and NASA went to great lengths to select only one black air force colonel.

Unfortunately, the black colonel was killed in a training accident.

In those ten years, as many as 10 American astronauts died in training.

For example, the experimental cabin of the Apollo 1 spacecraft experienced a short-circuit and fire during the simulation experiment, igniting the pure oxygen used in the cabin, and the cabin door failed to open in time. The three astronauts suffocated in just ten seconds. Burned to death.

The subsequent accident investigation report pointed out that the Apollo 1 spacecraft has more than 5,000 safety issues, and more than 1,300 technical improvements and key issues are needed.

In the following years, the United States has been investigating hidden dangers and solving technical problems. Hundreds of thousands of people work overtime all year round for the goal of landing on the moon.

No. 7, No. 8, and No. 9... Until the Apollo 10 test launch of the lunar module, the moon landing faintly saw a little light.

At this time, Khrushchev had already stepped down in the Soviet court coup. President Kennedy became a deceased.

He was assassinated less than two years after the speech announcing the moon landing plan.

02

On July 16, 1969, Wednesday, local time, more than 1 million people gathered at the Kennedy Space Center on the Florida Peninsula.

This place was originally called the Cape Canaveral Launch Site. After President Kennedy was assassinated, it was renamed to commemorate him.

This day was chosen mainly because the moon moved to the perigee.

Perigee means that the distance to the earth is the closest, only 363,300 kilometers, so as to save fuel as much as possible. This distance is close to the limit of rocket thrust.

On this day, the angle between the sun and the moon reached the optimal state, and the astronauts could be affected as little as possible by solar radiation.

I chose to build the launch site here, mainly because this is the place closest to the equator in the continental United States, and to put it bluntly is the belt of the earth.

Launching a rocket at this part can maximize the use of the earth’s rotation to increase the speed, allowing the earth to throw the rocket out, but also to save fuel.

The nearby hotels, highways, waterways and rivers are crowded with more than 350,000 cars and boats. More people stayed by the TV. More than 2,000 journalists were sent from various countries.

In San Francisco, a Chinese woman named Zhang Ailing heard that there will be a live TV broadcast of human beings on the moon tomorrow. She hurried to buy a TV, but because she was a newcomer, she used the street sign as a bus stop after she was exposed to the sun for a day and did not wait for the bus.

In Hawaii, Barack, a black child born the same year as the moon landing plan, is staring at a TV screen. Decades later, he said in his memoirs that he was 8 years old at the time and still couldn't understand what it meant for humans to go to the moon.

On the launch pad, stands a 110-meter-high rocket. The rocket weighs 3,039 tons after refueling, which is equivalent to 2,000 cars. And its value, how can it be comparable to 2000 cars.

At 6:30 in the morning local time, the staff helped the three astronauts put on heavy spacesuits weighing 120 kilograms, and then helped them to the launch pad.

At 9:32 in the morning, the rocket was launched into the air, and the huge booster slowly and hotly pushed the spacecraft into space.

According to the plan, they will start to orbit the earth one and a half times in 15 minutes, adjust and check the spacecraft equipment; the third stage rocket will ignite, get rid of the gravity of the earth, and use 90 hours to push the spacecraft to the moon 360,000 kilometers away.

In the past four days, they need to strictly abide by organizational regulations:

Sleep 8 hours a day and eat 4 meals.

NASA has prepared two menus for the astronauts:

Bacon, peaches, sugar cookies, pineapple juice, grapefruit and coffee;

Beef stew, chicken soup, date palm cake, grape juice and orange juice.

In order to preserve the preservation and save time, these foods are made into a jelly-like ready-to-eat bag without heating and refrigeration, but the taste is not good.

Flying to the moon are three white American men.

Neil Armstrong, Air Force test pilot, typical pragmatic, unsmiling, gentle personality.

It was his youngest daughter who died of an illness several years ago that prompted him to participate in the selection for the moon landing. This man decided to console himself through his career.

Buzz Aldrin, a navy pilot, is skilled, ambitious, conceited, and straightforward. He is the best among astronauts, but he is not likable, and few people can make friends with him.

Michael Collins, originally an astronaut on Apollo 8, was sent to the Apollo 11 as the main spacecraft pilot because of a spinal surgery that delayed the mission.

It was accidental that they became the first human beings to land on the moon.

According to the original plan, the three astronauts killed in Apollo 1 were the best candidates for the first moon landing, followed by an astronaut from Apollo 7.

As a result, in the space environment simulation, he has runny nose in a weightless environment, which may cause dehydration and death.

It's only their turn.

From left to right: Armstrong, Collins, Aldrin

According to the plan, after arriving near the moon, the main spacecraft "Columbia" will orbit the moon and separate the "Eagle" lunar module.

The names of the two have their own meanings.

The Columbia, from the French novelist Verne’s work "From the Earth to the Moon" 100 years ago, the spacecraft flying to the moon in that book is called the Columbia; the "eagle" is the national symbol of the United States, white head Sea eagle.

After that, Armstrong and Aldrin will take the "Eagle" to the moon. Collins stayed on the Columbia and missed the moon landing.

Before departure, he received an order that if Armstrong and Aldrin cannot return within a day, he will drive the spacecraft back to Earth alone.

At that time, the two companions had become the earliest human victims on the moon.

Half a month before the launch of Apollo 11, the Soviet Union took the lead in launching a lunar rocket.

It wants to land on the moon before the United States and severely humiliate the Americans.

As a result, the bear was severely slapped in the face by reality.

Because a screw was not tightened, the rocket exploded 12 seconds after liftoff, and more than 2,300 tons of burning high-purity liquid oxygen and kerosene poured down from the sky.

Afterwards, it took the authorities 18 months to clean up the damage caused by the explosion.

Expert's assessment: This is the greatest damage caused by non-nuclear weapons in human history.

The White House has prepared two speeches.

One is the successful landing of Apollo 11 on the moon. President Nixon will read:

Because of your achievements, the sky has become a part of the human world. Make the earth also have peace and tranquility.

At this most precious moment in human history, people all over the world have merged into one, and they are proud of your achievements.

The other is a letter of condolences. If they die, the president will say:

Fate determines that those who go to the moon expedition will always rest on the moon.

These brave men have known for a long time that they have no hope of coming back, but they also know that because of their sacrifice, mankind will have more hope.

The preparations the astronauts made were to sign their names on hundreds of photos and postcards. If they were killed, their families would sell them to make money to maintain their families.

They have considered buying insurance, but most insurance companies refuse to insure them. For the remaining few, the bids made them unacceptable.

03

On July 20, after a four-day cosmic trek, the Columbia reached the moon and successfully separated.

"Eagle", began to move to the moon 60 miles away.

At this time, the whole world is paying attention to a problem:

Who will be the first person to go to the moon?

The answer is: Neil Armstrong.

Forty minutes later, at 4:17:42 pm on July 20, 1969 in Houston, the space center heard the long-awaited sentence:

Houston, the Eagle has successfully landed in Jinghai.

This quiet sea is not Tianjin's quiet sea, but a basin in the center of a crater explored by the Apollo spacecraft several times before. The terrain is flat and easy for the spacecraft to land.

Jinghai covers an area of ​​420,000 square kilometers, which is about the size of the Black Sea. If you don’t know how big the Black Sea is, it’s not outrageous to think about Heilongjiang (450,000 square kilometers).

In fact, this moon landing was almost unsuccessful.

When descending to the surface of the moon, the lunar module computer made an error and issued a malfunction alarm, requesting the cancellation of the mission. But Armstrong did not believe in evil and insisted on using manual driving to complete the task.

The honor of being the first man to reach the moon finally belongs to him.

After three hours of preparation, Armstrong climbed down from the lunar module, and nearly 700 million people around the world watched him carefully walking toward the desolate surface of the moon through the TV camera installed on the Eagle.

This is Aldrin. As for why it’s not Armstrong, I have it below

During this time, they all played the fourth movement of the Czech composer Dvořák’s ninth symphony "From the New World" in the lunar module. meaning.

4.Allegroonfuoo (the warm Allegro of the fourth movement)

BerlinerPhilharmoniker;RafaelKubelik-Dvorak:The9Symphonies

When his left boot touched the surface of the moon, Armstrong said the first words of human beings on the moon.

What should human beings say when they land on the moon? This question, I am afraid that all people in the world have their own answers.

Before landing on the moon, he received tens of thousands of letters of advice on this issue.

Among them, the total number ranked first and second, respectively, reading the "Bible" and reading a passage of Shakespeare.

But instead of giving this honor to God and Shakespeare, he said something that he owns the intellectual property rights.

That'sonesmallstepforman, onegiantleapformankind.

This is a small step for me personally, but a big step for mankind.

He understands that no matter what he said in the first sentence, it will be engraved in human history and will be remembered forever by people across races and nationalities.

No one can stand the temptation. This is human nature.

In contrast, the first words of the first Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin to fly into space seemed very uncreative.

The flight is normal.

Nineteen minutes later, Aldrin got out of the cabin.

Behind them, the far horizon of the moon seemed to be within reach. When you look up, you can see the half-bright and half-dark earth, and the African continent and the Arabian Peninsula next to it are clearly visible.

Under my feet, is the silver-gray lunar soil.

Because there is no air on the moon, there is no weathering effect. In Armstrong’s words, the lunar soil is as hard and sharp as a mixture of dust and coral reefs.

The moon does not smell good. When they returned, they smelled the moon dust on their spacesuits, and it felt like an explosion of metal and gunpowder.

Without the air as a medium for sound transmission, there is only a dead silence on the moon.

This is probably the quietest place that mankind has ever strolled through.

In addition to being able to hear human voices when using the headset to talk, the astronaut in the spacesuit can only hear the buzzing signal noise and the sound of his own heartbeat.

Because the gravity of the moon is only one-sixth that of the earth, the spacesuit that is too heavy to walk on the earth weighs less than 20 kilograms here. Just take a few steps and you can jump up to nearly half a meter high.

Due to the lack of understanding of the moon, NASA set the time for their first lunar landing to be only two hours and forty minutes.

The two astronauts first placed a metal plaque on the moon. The outline of the east and west hemispheres of the earth was engraved on the plaque and a sentence.

This sentence is very official:

In 1969, humans from planet Earth set foot on the moon for the first time. We are here for the peace of all mankind.

After that, they placed a miniature version of the telegram disc engraved with the leaders of 67 countries on the moon. It's as if the moon itself is a CD player.

They also planted a special American flag on the moon. Because there is no wind on the moon, and if you want to take a picture of the flag flying, the flag is fixed on the flag pole by a metal wire.

At the request of the scientists, they took a series of photos of the moon, collected 22.6 kilograms of rocks, measured the temperature of the moon's surface, and set up a seismograph to record earthquakes on the moon. Oh, it should be said, Yuezhen.

The camera used to take photos is specially made by Hasselblad and equipped with a special lens made by Carl Zeiss, which can take photos normally at a low temperature of minus two Baidu.

It's just that Armstrong took dozens of photos of Aldrin before and after. Aldrin also took a lot of pictures of the moon and the universe, but he didn't take a picture of Armstrong.

As a result, the photo of the first person on the moon was only a small part of the light reflecting off of Aldrin's helmet.

This is also true human nature.

NASA allows each astronaut to carry 1 pound of personal items to the moon as a souvenir to his family.

What Armstrong carried was the badge of his deceased daughter, and a commemorative medal, which engraved the names of the three Apollo 1 astronauts and two Soviet astronauts, including Yuri Gagarin. .

Because it was impossible for the Soviet Union to land on the moon, their widow entrusted Armstrong to bring the medallion to the moon and let her husband’s name rest here.

Aldrin carried a small bottle of wine, a silver cup and a piece of bread. Since he failed to become the first person to land on the moon, he became the first Christian to eat the sacrament outside the earth.

When completing the task, President Nixon also made a cross-ball call to the two to express condolences.

It is Motorola who provides technical support. It's a pity that there is a confidentiality agreement, and Motorola didn't stand up until 1982. Otherwise, it might make a "Motorola network big, earth and moon call" advertisement.

After that, the "Eagle" restarted its engine to take off and docked with the Columbia.

They see clearly:

The American flag that had just been inserted on the moon was knocked down by the shock wave from the takeoff.

So far, this American flag is still on the moon. It may fall down like this forever.

After that, the Columbia dropped the Eagle and returned to Earth at a speed of 39,593 kilometers per hour.

Three days later, in the southwestern Hawaiian area of ​​the Pacific Ocean, the radar detected this extremely fast alien visitor.

A few minutes later, the spacecraft penetrated the atmosphere, and three red and white parachutes led the spacecraft into the sea. The three were rescued ashore by a helicopter waiting to the side.

This time, Aldrin took the lead.

He was the first to get out of the spaceship and shouted:

I am the first human being to return to Earth from an alien!

04

A few months after returning to Earth, the three members of Apollo 11 were sent to various parts of the world for a forty-five-day friend (zheng) good (fu) visit (gong) question (guan). ).

Among the three, Armstrong became the most eye-catching existence. This makes him unbearable for his introvert.

The two major parties in the United States, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, have all used their best to win over this legendary figure. Because which party has him, it will increase the votes by millions.

In Armstrong’s hometown of Ohio, rejected brands and reporters surrounded Armstrong’s parents’ homes.

Businessmen sent gifts and cash, hoping to get a breakthrough from the old Armstrong and persuade his son to become the brand spokesperson. The family had to call the police repeatedly. Armstrong announced that he would not enter space again.

Even a media belonging to a certain religion came out to spot hot spots:

Actually Armstrong heard the call from the Lord on the moon, and for this reason he has secretly joined my teaching.

The noise and prosperity of all this is exactly what Aldrin expected.

His sentence that I am the first human to return from an alien did not cause much shock. He felt a deep loss.

When the whole world was watching Armstrong’s every move, not only were few people paying attention to him as the second person, but there were even accusations against him: Why didn’t you take photos of Armstrong at the time?

His response was that he didn't think of it. But this response estimated that he himself could not be convinced.

Before, at NASA's internal evaluation meeting, all project leaders agreed that Armstrong was the most suitable candidate for the first moon landing.

The reason is that Armstrong is calm and quiet, only thinking about the task in his head, and will not be dazzled by this joy.

Aldrin is the kind of person who lives under the flash. He desperately wants this honor, wishing everyone to know his glorious deeds.

After the announcement of Armstrong's decision that the first person to land on the moon was announced, Aldrin was hit hard. His father, Aldrin, a retired air force colonel, also tried to change this result by looking for relationships.

After that, Aldrin began to fall into constant alcoholism, detoxification, insomnia and depression, and divorced twice.

For this reason, Old Aldrin also wanted to sue NASA for a while, on the grounds:

The moon ruined my son.

After the success of Apollo 11, the U.S. moon landing program was launched quickly, launching spacecraft to the moon at a frequency of once every six months.

Four months later, two astronauts from Apollo 12 landed on the moon.

In their hearts, there is more or less Aldrin's regret.

After that, Apollo 13 completed an almost impossible miracle mission. After the launch, the spacecraft experienced an oxygen leak and explosion. The three astronauts successfully escaped and returned to the earth using the lunar module.

Apollo 14 completed the longest human walk on the moon. Two astronauts walked on foot for 9 hours, 22 minutes and 31 seconds.

Starting from Apollo 15, astronauts are equipped with a lunar rover on the moon, and they can drive and walk freely. And this time, a scandal broke out.

Every time they land on the moon, NASA will allow astronauts to carry 1 pound of personal belongings to the moon as a souvenir for family and friends.

Before Apollo 15 landed on the moon, a businessman found three astronauts and asked them to smuggle up 400 commemorative envelopes. After returning to Earth, they gave them $6,000 each.

Astronauts at the time received only 8 U.S. dollars per day.

It didn't take long for these envelopes to be resold to Germany for $1,300 each.

The news was exposed by the media and caused a sensational storm of public opinion across the United States. NASA announced the expulsion of the three.

Apollo 16 achieved lunar drag racing. The two astronauts were rolling in the crater while comparing and amusing each other. Who put more farts on the moon?

The Washington Post commented on this:

What kind of guys did we send to the moon?

It didn't take long for Nixon to announce that the moon landing scheduled for Apollo 20 was cancelled, and the last execution was Apollo 17.

According to the budget, the planned investment on the moon was US$25.2 billion, and the actual expenditure exceeded US$37.4 billion.

During the peak period, budget expenditures for this project accounted for 4% of the federal budget.

From the moment Apollo 11 successfully returned to meet the three astronauts, Nixon wanted to stop this big money-burning project.

Because the Soviet Union has already lost in this competition. The suspension of the moon landing project will not only receive less criticism in Congress, but also win the support of more voters.

Now, six moon landing plans have given the United States a sufficient understanding of the moon, and it has also earned enough face. okay.

Not long after Nixon's decision was announced, Armstrong resigned from NASA and became a teacher at the university.

On December 7, 1972, the world's attention once again focused on the Apollo 17 spacecraft, which was launched for the last time on the moon.

This year, the United States was caught in the Vietnam War and the endless domestic crusades, and it was devastated.

NASA even received threats of attack before launch: Someone threatened to shoot rockets hundreds of meters away and destroy the last moon landing with a rifle bullet.

Fortunately, everything goes well.

This time, they set a record for the highest stay on the moon. They collected more than 110 kilograms of rock on the surface of the moon.

When I returned, Commander Eugene Cernan and other three astronauts did another thing, which still affects human beings on Earth.

They took a complete picture of the Earth from the perspective of the moon. The azure earth is quietly suspended in the dark universe.

There, billions of human beings and countless lives multiply, and people welcome the birth, love, and death of life every day.

The name of this photo is "Blue Marbles".

Several years later in China, a programmer who graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology developed a mobile application and chose this photo as the launch page.

Later, this software became a national application in China, used by hundreds of millions of people every day.

Its name is: WeChat.

05

More changes are unexpected.

After the moon landing plan is over, attending business events, giving speeches, publishing books, and endorsements have become daily routines for astronauts after retirement.

Although they have become heroes of the world, they are still ordinary people in the final analysis.

Compared with the previous subsidy of 8 dollars, now you can get tens of thousands of dollars on a stand. Few people can resist the wealth, fame, and beauty that this success brings.

Ten years after the moon landing, nearly half of the astronauts chose to divorce.

However, the relationship between them has become more subtle.

When the astronauts participating in the Apollo project attended a business event together, they found:

The same is to take the Apollo spacecraft to the moon. Astronauts who have landed on the moon can get tens of thousands of dollars each time, while the astronauts who fly the spacecraft only have a few thousand dollars.

For many years, the divorce rate in the area near the Kennedy Space Center also jumped to the highest level in the United States.

At its peak, hundreds of thousands of families from NASA and outsourcing companies lived here.

One of the reasons for the breakdown of marriages is that in the ten years before the moon landing plan, most people were busy working overtime, lack of communication between husband and wife, and failed to accompany their children to grow up.

In the eyes of people in Nixon’s time, the costly project of the moon landing did not bring any real benefits. Its value is, at best, the greatest romance left by mankind in the universe.

After the suspension, its value gradually emerged in the process of gradual civilianization and publicization.

Because the Apollo 1 spacecraft caught fire and killed three astronauts, NASA commissioned a chemical company to develop a flame-retardant fiber material and a lightweight breathing system to ensure that people can breathe normally in the flames.

Later, this material and breathing system were widely used in firefighting suits, saving the lives of countless firefighters and ordinary people.

This company later transformed into an agricultural technology company, and it is quite famous in China. Its name is: Monsanto.

During the 10 years of preparing for the moon landing, in order to solve the problem of overweight spacecraft electronic components, NASA made a promise to contractors: reducing the weight of parts by one pound can get tens of thousands of dollars in bonuses.

IBM received a large number of integrated circuit orders and subcontracted them to a company called Fairchild. Because the products produced are stable and reliable, both companies have received substantial investment from NASA.

After the moon landing, IBM continued to make breakthroughs in this series of technologies and produced the world's first personal computer IBM 5150 in the next decade.

Several employees of Fairchild Company ran away to start businesses and founded several companies. One of them is called Intel.

In the development of the moon landing technology, in order to reduce the tedious computer operation steps, a NASA engineer thought of using "point control" instead of typing on the keyboard.

Finally, he made a wooden box with metal rollers, and the squares on both sides can be clicked freely.

This little thing that looks like a mouse has its own name—mouse.

……

In the last ten years, NASA statistics show that the Apollo Project has brought about nearly 2,000 major technological inventions.

They changed the world silently.

Over the years, conspiracy theories about moon landings have been heard.

Conspiracy theorists claim that the United States did not land on the moon and that everything is just an illusion made in Hollywood studios. NASA has blinded all mankind with special effects.

The last strong proof of the true existence of the moon landing was made by China.

In 2010, China's Chang'e-2 satellite orbited the moon and successfully photographed the footprints, wheel marks and engine impact marks left by the Apollo moon landing on the moon six times.

It is estimated that there is also the American flag on the moon.

The Chang'e series satellites also have a wonderful relationship with Apollo.

In 1978, China and the United States were about to establish diplomatic relations, and the United States gave China a gift: a moon rock.

It was a rock poured in plexiglass and wrapped in convex glass. When you smash it open, it's only the size of a bean.

Weight: 1 gram.

This 1 gram was extremely precious to China at that time.

Make it in half and put 0.3 grams on display in the Beijing Planetarium; for the other 0.7 grams, the State Council organized eight research units in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Kunming, Guiyang and other places.

Finally discovered: It was part of 110 kilograms of lunar rock brought back by "Apollo 17" during the last lunar landing.

With regard to the 0.7-gram moon, Chinese scientists and technicians worked eagerly and wrote more than a dozen papers within a year.

Among the authors of the paper, there is a technician named Ouyang Ziyuan.

Thirty years later, he presided over the design of China's Chang'e satellites.

06

The Apollo project lasted 11 years and successfully sent 12 people to the moon. Since then, no humans have set foot on the moon.

In recent years, the influence of the moon landing as an event has gradually diminished.

Armstrong discovered when he was 72 years old that he no longer needed to wear sunglasses and masks when he went out alone.

The main reason is that the moon landing has faded out of people's lives, and people no longer pay attention to the astronauts of a distant age.

The other reason is that he is too old and has a hunched back, making it difficult to be recognized when walking in the crowd.

Aldrin ushered in the highlight moment of his life decades later.

Over the years, he has made high-profile speeches here, announcing that he has started to be a writer, an actor, and plans to go to Mars.

He has starred in 19 movies and TV series, and all the roles he played are himself.

The most famous one is "Transformers 3" with a human landing on the moon as the background. It is a fictional story about Apollo 11 bringing back the energy pillar of Cybertron from the dark side of the moon.

The changes made to the world by the moon landing will become more apparent after a few decades.

In November 2008, in Washington, the capital of the United States, a black man won the 44th U.S. General Election and was elected President of the United States.

He is the boy who was watching the Apollo 11 launch in front of the TV, Barack ***.

In his post-victory speech, he once again mentioned the impact of watching the moon landing that year:

It was the moon landing that made me understand that with unremitting efforts, the impossible and the opportunity will become possible.

Who said the president does not chase stars?

In 2012, Armstrong passed away. *** ordered all parts of the United States to collectively fly at half-mast to express condolences for the first man to set foot on the moon.

As for the scientific and technological achievements and convenience of life that human beings enjoy today, most of them come from the scientific development and technological progress in the 1960s and 1970s.

Humans at that time were like adolescents who had just opened their eyes to see the world, possessing curiosity for exploration and discovery.

For the romantic goal of landing on the moon, hundreds of thousands of people have long worked free overtime for the Apollo project, regardless of payment.

In the past few years since the end of the Cold War, not only in space, mankind has generally fallen into a conservative dilemma in the exploration of more unknown technologies.

It's not just because of cost.

We are more keen on chasing safety and comfort, but we have lost our dreams and lack the patience to pursue a higher goal.

The famous American popular science writer George Mussel pointed out:

Our concept of the present moment is adapted to our evolutionary environment, but it is hindering our future survival.

Because of the lack of longer-term future plans, our space exploration cannot continue, and humans cannot deal with climate change and other slow-moving issues. It is not surprising that the reasons are.

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In 2017, Eugene Cernan, who shot "Blue Marbles", died in Texas, USA.

As the last human to leave footprints on the moon, he actually did a very personal thing to the moon.

At the last moment of leaving the moon, he bent down and wrote his 9-year-old daughter Tray's name on the moon with his fingers.

Because there is no air and weathering on the surface of the moon, Tray's name will exist on the moon for tens of millions of years.

At Cernan’s funeral, Tray, the luckiest daughter in the world, was already a middle-aged woman in her 50s. She read the letter her father wrote to herself:

Evenifoneday, Ian’tontinuetoapanyyou, whenyoulookuptoseethemoon, youanseepapaleftyourownimprint.

Even if one day, I can't continue to be by your side, when you look up and see the moon, you can see the exclusive mark that father left for you.

About this story, a band named nomoreking wrote a song called "Tray’sSong".

My shadow is in the front and footprints are in the back

I set foot on this unknown land

The first and last time

Even with heavy responsibilities

I still have a little thought

I want to change her mind

The girl I left at home

For me~IndoMTL.com~ the man she used to cry for

This small step

I made up for her, in the most magnificent way

If she would ask

The best vision I have ever had

I will let this immortal remembrance answer for me

The name of Tray who stayed in this moondust

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