For most countries, the space race in the last century represented a great opportunity. The flight of a man into space, the launch of a rocket to the moon - all this opened up great prospects in technological, military and economic terms. However, the main states between which the rivalry in space unfolded turned out to be only the two leading states of the planet. The Soviet Union made the first series of victorious achievements, but after the United States seized the initiative and was 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 website is now up and running. The launch of the Apollo 11 rocket can be seen live on it. Let's leave the theories about filming a movie of a flight to the moon instead of a conscientious trip to the Earth's satellite to those who like to look everywhere for dishonest tricks and intrigues of evil enemies, and in the meantime we ourselves will make a short digression into history and go to the not so distant 1969, when the NileArmstrong took the first step on the lunar surface.
Apollo 11 flight history
The first landing of a man on the moon took place on July 20, 1969, and the crew of 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 supervised the successful passage of the landing. The very first step on the moon was made by Neil Armstrong, and this name is now known to almost the entire civilized society.
Achievements of the lunar program
During the landing of Apollo 11, the astronauts collected soil, which they collected during the subsequent landings of other Apollos, about 400 kilograms in total. During the "sorties" made, the astronauts not only walked, but also traveled along the Earth's satellite on a lunar rover. After five launched "Apollos" (the last official was the seventeenth), the space program was curtailed and the launches of the shuttles stopped. The official version is that the Americans have chosen the pressing problems of the economy, and space exploration has already been too expensive. And although the program has stopped, but, nevertheless, contemporaries do not take into account the fact that the research carried out at that time, as well as the money allocated for the scientific achievements of that time, served as a huge base for the modern world with all its technical "chips". In fact, the rivalry between the Soviet Union andof the United States served as the basis for the entire modern world and resulted in the technological good 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 on the Earth's satellite is an American, the first technical probes that collected lunar soil were Soviet.
Wechoosethemoon - rocket launch to the moon from the site
Now, with the development of the Internet, Americans have launched a website that allows you to see how the launch of Apollo 11 was carried out. This is the Wechoosethemoon website. 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. The entire 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 scene is the Moon itself. All this action is accompanied by the voice of the announcer, performed as if through a radio recording. The site has a beautiful interface, the only small minus is the rather long scene loading speed. 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 educationalinstitutions.
Well, now you know that on the Internet at Wechoosethemoon, a rocket launch can be tracked, figuratively speaking, live. This is quite curious. Try it if you wish!
