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Apollo Landing Site

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From Pete Lawrence in the the Sky at Night Magazine:

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https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advi ... -the-moon/

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Neat - thanks - I do not believe that I have ever seen an image like that of the Apollo 11 site - maybe some day if I ever am able to get out, I can observe!
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Once Armstrong and Aldrin landed at "Tranquility Base", it wasn't long (actually is was before they landed!) before they/we realized that geologically speaking Tranquility Base wasn't so tranquil after all! Boy the boulders in them thar lunar plains!

Given the sheer complexity of the endeavor to land humans on the Moon AND get them back to Terra alive … well, I've heard that it was an open secret among those at NASA that Apollo 11 had a 50/50 chance of doing just that! Now that takes some real courage to strap into an oversized bottle rocket for a trip to Luna. Even with built-in redundancy (in most cases), it's amazing that millions of parts and the rinky-dink computers of that day were able to function at a nominal level that would make such a landing possible. And then do it again five more times. Of course Apollo 13 certainly proved to be a sobering moment in the Apollo series, including Apollo 1.
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Hankmeister3 wrote: Wed Oct 16, 2019 7:12 pm Once Armstrong and Aldrin landed at "Tranquility Base", it wasn't long (actually is was before they landed!) before they/we realized that geologically speaking Tranquility Base wasn't so tranquil after all! Boy the boulders in them thar lunar plains!

Given the sheer complexity of the endeavor to land humans on the Moon AND get them back to Terra alive … well, I've heard that it was an open secret among those at NASA that Apollo 11 had a 50/50 chance of doing just that! Now that takes some real courage to strap into an oversized bottle rocket for a trip to Luna. Even with built-in redundancy (in most cases), it's amazing that millions of parts and the rinky-dink computers of that day were able to function at a nominal level that would make such a landing possible. And then do it again five more times. Of course Apollo 13 certainly proved to be a sobering moment in the Apollo series, including Apollo 1.
Indeed a stunning achievement given that the module's computing power was about that of a commodore 64!
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Here is the location of all missions that landed on the moon, not so detailed but also easy to locate:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articl ... ding-sites
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There is a full list of all landings by country with coordinates if interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_l ... ial_bodies
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