Post by PhantomWolf on Jun 18, 2007 20:05:11 GMT -4
Below is a list of the key US milestones towards the Lunar Landing of Apollo 11. Together they are stepping stones, one to the next to the next, all on the Journey from Earth to the Moon. My question for our Hoax Beleivers is this. Where does this chain break down? At which point did NASA find that step impossible and decide they had to fake it from then on?
Notes:
1) The dates are launch dates of the mission, not the actual date they achieved the goal.
2) There is one "step" that was never done by the US as they determined there was no need, but it was done by the Soviets and so is included.
edited to fix brain explosion that got mission numbers round the wrong way.
Notes:
1) The dates are launch dates of the mission, not the actual date they achieved the goal.
2) There is one "step" that was never done by the US as they determined there was no need, but it was done by the Soviets and so is included.
- First missile reaches space – BUMPER 5 (24 February, 1949)
- First satellite – Explorer 1 (31 January, 1958)
- First space launch and recovery of living creatures - Jupiter missile AM-18 (28 May, 1959)
- First man launched into space – Freedom 7 (5 May, 1961)
- First manned orbit - Friendship 7 (20 February, 1962)
- First lunar impact probe - Ranger 4 (23 April, 1962)
- First manned flight of two-man capsule – Gemini III (23 March, 1965)
- First EVA – Gemini IV (3 June, 1965)
- First weeklong mission duration – Gemini V (21 August, 1965)
- First two week mission duration – Gemini VII (December 04, 1965)
- First rendezvous of spacecraft – Gemini VII/Gemini VIa (December 15, 1965)
- First docking with a target in space – Gemini VIII (16 March, 1966)
- First Probe to land on Moon – Surveyor 1 (30 May, 1966)
- First manned journey into the VA Belts – Gemini X (July 18, 1966)
- First Probe in lunar orbit – Lunar Orbiter 1 (10 August, 1966)
- First long duration stay of manned craft in VA Belts – Gemini XI (12 September, 1966)
- First unmanned Saturn V test – Apollo 4 (9 November, 1967)
- (First lunar flyby and recovery of living creatures) – Zond 5 (14 September, 1968) [Soviet Mission]
- First manned flight of three-man Capsule - Apollo 7 (11 October, 1968)
- First Lunar Orbit by manned craft – Apollo 8 (21 December, 1968)
- First manned test of Lunar module – Apollo 9 (3 March 1969)
- Lunar Landing Dress rehearsal – Apollo 10 (18 May, 1969)
- First Lunar Landing – Apollo 11 (16 July, 1969)
edited to fix brain explosion that got mission numbers round the wrong way.