apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969.
apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969.
what year did apollo 11 land on the moon?
1969
in his august 28, 2009 associated press story appearing in the "brisbane times", toby sterling recounted how a spokesman for the dutch national museum, amsterdam's rijksmuseum, acknowledged on august 26, 2009, "that one of its prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by"…apollo 11… "us astronauts, is just a piece of petrified wood.."… "the museum acquired the rock after the death of former prime minister willem drees in 1988. drees received it as a private gift on october 9, 1969 from then-us ambassador j. william middendorf during a visit by the three apollo 11 astronauts, part of their ‘giant leap’ goodwill tour after the first moon landing." the museum acknowledged that though they did vet the moon rock they failed to double check it. the museum was under the incorrect belief that this moon rock was one of the 135 apollo 11 moon rocks that were presented to the nations of the world by the nixon administration. "it's a nondescript, pretty-much-worthless stone," said frank beunk, a geologist involved in the investigation. the genuine apollo 11 moon rock given to the dutch is in the inventory of a different museum in the netherlands, which is, in fact, one of the countries where the location of both the apollo 11 and apollo 17 gift rocks is known.
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dr. david r. williams (nasa archivist at goddard space flight center) and apollo 11 flight director eugene f. kranz both acknowledged that the original high-quality apollo 11 telemetry data tapes are missing. conspiracists see this as evidence that they never existed. the apollo 11 telemetry tapes were different from the telemetry tapes of the other moon landings because they contained the raw television broadcast. for technical reasons, the apollo 11 lander carried a slow-scan television (sstv) camera (see apollo tv camera). to broadcast the pictures to regular television, a scan conversion had to be done. the radio telescope at parkes observatory in australia was able to receive the telemetry from the moon at the time of the apollo 11 moonwalk. parkes had a bigger antenna than nasa's antenna in australia at the honeysuckle creek tracking station, so it received a better picture. it also received a better picture than nasa's antenna at goldstone deep space communications complex. this direct tv signal, along with telemetry data, was recorded onto one-inch fourteen-track analog tape at parkes. the original sstv transmission had better detail and contrast than the scan-converted pictures, and it is this original tape that is missing. a crude, real-time scan conversion of the sstv signal was done in australia before it was broadcast worldwide. however, still photos of the original sstv image are available (see photos). about fifteen minutes of it were filmed by an amateur 8 mm film camera and these are also available. later apollo missions did not use sstv. at least some of the telemetry tapes from the alsep scientific experiments left on the moon (which ran until 1977) still exist, according to dr. williams. copies of those tapes have been found.
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