For most countries, the space race in the last century presented great opportunities. The manned flight into space, the launch of a rocket to the moon - all this opened up great prospects in the technological, military and economic terms. However, the main states, between which the rivalry in space developed, were only two of the leading states of the planet. The Soviet Union made the first series of victorious achievements, but after the United States seized the initiative and were able to launch a man on the moon. The flight to the moon of the Americans was a milestone in the technological achievements of mankind.
Wechoosethemoon is now operational. The launch of the Apollo 11 rocket can be seen on it live. Let us leave theories about filming a film of a flight to the Moon instead of a bona fide trip to Earth's satellite, lovers seek everywhere an dishonest trick and the machinations of evil enemies, but in the meantime we take a little excursion into history and set off for the not-so-distant 1969, when Neil Armstrong took the first step on the lunar surface.
Apollo 11 - flight history
The first landing of the man on the moon took place on July 20th, 1969, and the crew of the Apollo 11, the space shuttle that was built by the Americans, were three people. Actually, two astronauts stepped on the lunar surface itself. The third remained in the shuttle and controlled the successful passage of the landing. The very first step to the moon was made by Neil Armstrong, and this name is now known to almost all civilized society.
Achievements of the lunar program
During the landing of Apollo 11, the astronauts made a set of soil, which was collected in the subsequent landings of other Apollo, only about 400 kilograms. During the "sorties" the astronauts not only walked, but also traveled by satellite on the moon rover. After five Apollo launches (the last official was the seventeenth), the space program was curtailed and shuttle launches ceased. The official version is that the Americans chose the urgent problems of the economy, and the space research performed was already too expensive. And although the program has stopped, nevertheless, contemporaries do not take into account the fact that research carried out at that moment, as well as money allocated for scientific achievements of that time, served as a huge basis for the modern world with all its technical “chips” . In fact, the rivalry of the Soviet Union and the United States served as the basis for the whole modern world and resulted in the technological benefit of today.
By the way, this is little known, but the Soviet ships were the first to reach the Moon. And although the person who took the first step along the Earth’s companion is an American, the first technical probes that collected the lunar soil were Soviet.
Wechoosethemoon - launch of a rocket to the moon from the site
Now, with the development of the Internet, the Americans have launched a website that allows you to see how the Apollo 11 launch was carried out. This is the site of Wechoosethemoon. The rocket launch, which can be seen there in great detail, is compiled from many documentary materials. A variety of "chips" of the site are quite accessible to you.
Opportunities
Website Wechhosethemoon rocket launch allows you to track interactively. All functionality consists of eleven scenes reconstructed using computer graphics, which can be viewed from various camera positions. The first scene is the launch of a rocket from the cosmodrome, and the scene of the eleventh is already directly the moon. All this action accompanies the voice of the speaker, performed as if through a radio recording. The site has a beautiful interface, the only slight minus is the rather long speed of scene loading. It is curious that at the beginning, during the loading of the site and the first scene, you will be offered to download a certificate in order to show the entire reconstructed film about the flight to the moon in schools and educational institutions.
Well, now you know that on the Internet on the Wechoosethemoon website, the launch of a rocket can be tracked, figuratively speaking, live. This is quite curious. Try it if you wish!