{"id":51241,"date":"2023-04-18T23:46:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T21:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=51241"},"modified":"2026-04-18T04:09:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:09:57","slug":"the-little-known-objects-left-behind-in-mans-first-trip-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/18\/the-little-known-objects-left-behind-in-mans-first-trip-to-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"The little-known objects left behind in man's first trip to the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The arrival of man on the Moon on July 20, 1969 is one of the greatest events in the entire history of mankind.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/03\/the-furthest-car-park-the-three-wheeled-vehicles-that-were-abandoned-on-the-moon\/\">The furthest car park: the three wheeled vehicles that were abandoned on the Moon<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/11\/21\/the-history-of-the-five-nasa-spacecrafts-that-travel-beyond-the-solar-system\/\">The history of the five NASA spacecrafts that travel beyond the Solar System<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin were the three astronauts on NASA's Apollo 11 mission<\/strong> who accomplished that feat. Collins remained in orbit in the command module, while Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the surface of the Moon in the Eagle lunar module. <strong>Armstrong was the first to descend<\/strong>, leaving what is undoubtedly the most famous footprint in history. But <strong>more than footprints were left on the Moon.<\/strong> The best known are the landing phase of the Eagle and the United States Flag, but there were more.<\/p>\n<p>Now that there is talk of making new trips to our natural satellite, it is worth reviewing the things that were left there on that first trip. The channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@neoexplains\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neo<\/a> published a few months ago <strong>an interesting video reviewing and recreating computer those objects:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What the Apollo 11 Site Looks Like Today\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qqXtPNDCuVk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here you can see some screenshots of the video. It is made with great graphics quality. <strong>The video is not only interesting for showing the abandoned objects, but also how they will be today<\/strong>, after decades subjected to ultraviolet radiation, since the Moon does not have an atmosphere like the one that protects the Earth.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52828065086_d258f49f58_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of the objects that appear in the video, there are two that I particularly liked. The first of these is <strong>a patch from the Apollo 1 mission<\/strong>, whose crew members were Virgil I. \"Gus\" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee. All three died when the rocket caught fire with them inside during a launch simulation on January 27, 1967.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52828065071_4ff8229ef5_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In second place are these <strong>two commemorative medals for Soviet astronauts Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov<\/strong>, the first who died on March 27, 1968 when his MiG-15 fighter crashed, and the second who died on March 4, 1968. April 1967 when his Soyuz 1 capsule crashed on its return to Earth. It was a nice touch from NASA to their Soviet rivals.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52827487357_9d8bc6b6e0_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arrival of man on the Moon on July 20, 1969 is one of the greatest events in the entire history of mankind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,16878],"tags":[19052,19050,19053,18959,651,1304,5696,19051,1461],"class_list":["post-51241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-space","tag-apollo-11","tag-buzz-aldrin","tag-eagle-lunar-module","tag-michael-collins","tag-moon","tag-nasa","tag-neil-armstrong","tag-vladimir-komarov","tag-yuri-gagarin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}