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Title: 50 Years of Human Landing on the Moon, Looking Up and Forgotten

Original: 8-word intersection

In the United Kingdom in the last century, a song made the Queen:

This song is "KillerQueen".

She stored Moët & Chandon in that beautiful cupboard

She said, "Let them eat cake!"

Like Queen Mary Anthony

Give Khrushchev and Kennedy a sedative

...

This song made the Queen's band famous overnight.

It sings the true mental state of ordinary people during the Cold War.

Since the United States dropped two atomic bombs in Japan, mankind has entered a period of nuclear terror.

During the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union looked at each other with tens of thousands of nuclear weapons, which could destroy the earth thousands of times.

This will be the first war in human history without a victor.

Even if one party completely destroys the other party without any damage, they will not survive the coming nuclear winter.

Representatives of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, US President Kennedy, and Soviet leader Khrushchev have become the two most stressed and highly regarded people in the world.

A cartoon was published in the New York Times and appeared in China's high school history books a few years later: Kennedy and Khrushchev each stretched their hands and rubbed their wrists, and the other hand was pressing the nuclear button toward each other.

All humans are staring at their hands, hoping to give them a shot.

The White House had previously received a letter signed as "a deeply concerned citizen."

Dear President,

I was deeply concerned that the Soviet Union might attack the United States and that it would destroy our country, so I designed a moon bomb that could save us.

I suggest that we make a huge rocket whose payload is a long steel cable with one end fixed to the earth.

We then launched a rocket towards the moon, and the steel cable followed it and rose up.

When the rocket lands on the moon, a robot will fix the other end of the cable to the moon, and as the earth rotates, the cable will pull the moon over; as long as the time is properly calculated, the moon will smash the Soviet Union.

The moon, the celestial body that once illuminated all life on Earth, has become a symbol of human fear and imagination.

Against this background, humans landed on the moon on July 20, 1969.

The Cold War was the biggest driving force.

This year is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.

Fifty years have passed, and the Cold War has long been history. It is difficult for humans to say how much progress has been made.

We still live in doubt, fear and mistrust.

And many of those who have been looked up have been forgotten.

Under the cloud of nuclear war, the Soviet Union not only sent a dog and a person to space by rocket before the United States, but also sent the probe to the moon.

The meaning of this action is that I won't hit you now, but my rocket can fly to space and has the ability to stab you at any time. What are you doing?

The United States, however, can only bite its teeth and endure, and can't say a word to you.

At this time, the United States did not succeed in sending a satellite to the sky. The rocket was fired several times and exploded.

The people were disappointed, and the Allies talked.

The problem was in Kennedy's hands.

One thing must be done to restore American confidence in this country.

Kennedy, 44, is the youngest president ever in the United States. Personality, known as the dream lover of women around the world.

And his family is one of the foremost families in America's wealth status. His father, Kennedy, had helped a man run for president. This man was Franklin Roosevelt.

As a result, just a few days after he came to power, he was slapped loudly by the old hat Khrushchev.

Where Kennedy swallowed this breath set a small goal for the American people: send people to the moon within ten years.

The "Apollo Plan" for the moon landing plan was released.

Why name the moon landing plan after the sun god? Just because the then director of NASA came up with a whimsy:

Humans going to the moon are like the sun **** Apollo driving a chariot across the sun, and it sounds magnificent.

According to the plan, the moon landing will be divided into three steps.

The first step is called the Mercury program, and we have matured the ability to send astronauts to the sky. The second step is called the Gemini program, which will send probes and spacecraft to the moon. The third step is the Apollo program to achieve the final moon landing.

From Galileo's telescope to the craters on the moon, human understanding of the moon has not grown much over the centuries.

The United States at the time was an anti-intellectual society (in fact, it is now almost the same).

When the lunar landing plan was put forward, various rumors of the American people immediately came into being:

The spacecraft will fall into a dust pile on the moon, and the astronauts will be buried alive before they come out;

Under the moon are terrifying underground creatures, waiting for astronauts from the earth to be eaten as jam puddings;

The moon landing may bring alien viruses, and all of them will become extinct after infection ...

Opportunities always belong to the prepared. The president proposed a moon landing plan, and NASA naturally made a budget.

At that time, the United States spent about $ 600 million on space. An adviser advised the Secretary to keep the budget a little smaller so that it would be easier to pass.

The Secretary waved his hand: No! You do not understand!

He made an 8-year $ 20 billion plan and approved it smoothly.

It turns out that the director is still too conservative.

In a speech in 1962, Kennedy officially announced the moon landing plan.

The speech mentioned that that year, the United States spent $ 5.4 billion on space.

He quickly added a sentence:

The amount is staggering, but still not more than Americans spend on cigarettes and cigars each year.

After spending so much money, of course, Kennedy wants to eat more fish.

At the time of the moon landing plan, the black people's rights movement in the United States was surging. Leader Martin Luther King later won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kennedy charged NASA that the selection of several black astronauts would not only encourage blacks to receive higher education, but also ease ethnic conflicts within American society.

Of course, there is a black people's rights movement because black people's rights are indeed suppressed.

There are fewer black people in the army and fewer pilots. Dozens of white pilots were quickly selected as candidate astronauts, and NASA struggled to select only one black air force colonel.

Unfortunately, the black colonel was killed in a training accident.

In that decade, as many as 10 astronauts died in training.

For example, a short circuit fire occurred in the experimental cabin of the Apollo 1 spacecraft during the simulation experiment, which ignited the pure oxygen used in the cabin, and the cabin door failed to open in time.

A subsequent accident investigation report pointed out that there were more than 5,000 safety issues in the Apollo 1 spacecraft, and more than 1,300 technical improvements and research were needed.

In the following years, the United States was investigating hidden dangers and solving technical problems. Hundreds of thousands of people work overtime for the purpose of landing on the moon.

No. 7, 8 and 9 ... Until the Apollo 10 test was launched into the lunar module, the moon landing faintly saw a little dawn.

At this time, Khrushchev had already stepped down in the Soviet coup. President Kennedy became an old man.

He was assassinated less than two years after the speech announcing the plan to land on the moon.

On Wednesday, July 16, 1969, local time, more than one million people gathered at the Kennedy Space Center on the Florida Peninsula.

Originally called Cape Canaveral Launch Range, President Kennedy was renamed to honor him after his assassination.

This day was chosen mainly because the moon had reached a perigee.

Perigee means that the nearest distance to the earth is only 363,300 kilometers, saving fuel as much as possible. This distance is approaching the limit of rocket thrust.

And just on this day, the angle of the sun and the moon reached its optimal state, and astronauts could be affected as little as possible by solar radiation.

I chose to set up a launch site here mainly because this is the closest place in the United States to the equator. It is said that the earth's belt is white.

Launching a rocket at this location can maximize the use of the Earth's rotation to increase the speed and allow the Earth to throw the rocket out, also in order to save fuel.

Nearby hotels, highways, and waterways are crowded with more than 350,000 cars and boats. More people stood by the TV. More than 2,000 journalists have been sent from various countries.

In San Francisco, a Chinese woman named Zhang Ailing heard that there will be a live human moon TV broadcast tomorrow, and hurried to buy a TV, but because of her first arrival, she bought a street sign as a bus station and did not wait for a day after exposure.

In Hawaii, Barack, a black child born the same year as the moon landing program, is staring at the TV screen. Decades later, he said in his memoirs that at the age of 8, he could not understand what it meant for humans to go to the moon.

On the launch pad stood a 110-meter-high rocket. The fueled rocket weighed 3,039 tons, equivalent to 2,000 cars. And its value is comparable to 2,000 cars.

At 6:30 am local time, the three astronauts helped the staff to put on a bulky spacesuit weighing 120 kilograms, and then helped the car to the launch pad.

At 9.32 am, the rocket was launched and the huge booster slowly and hotly pushed the spacecraft into space.

According to the plan, they will start to orbit the earth in 15 minutes, adjust and check the spacecraft equipment; the third stage rocket will ignite, get rid of the gravity of the earth, and push the spacecraft to the moon 360,000 kilometers away in 90 hours.

For almost four days, they need to strictly adhere to organizational regulations:

Sleep 8 hours a day and eat 4 meals.

NASA has prepared two menus for astronauts:

Bacon, peaches, sugar cookies, pineapple juice, grapefruit and coffee;

Beef stew, chicken soup, date cake, grape juice and orange juice.

For preserving and saving time, these foods are made into jelly-like ready-to-eat, which does not need to be heated and refrigerated.

Flying to the moon are three white American men.

Neil Armstrong, an air force test pilot, is a typical hardcore, unsmiling, and gentle.

It was his young daughter who died of a disease a few years ago that prompted him to participate in the moon landing selection. The man decided to comfort himself through his career.

Buzz Aldrin, a navy pilot, is good at technology, ambitious, conceited, and outspoken. He is the best among astronauts, but he is not flattering and few people can make good with him.

Michael Collins, originally an astronaut of Apollo 8, was sent to Apollo 11 as the main spacecraft pilot because of a delay in performing a spinal operation.

It is by accident that they could become the first humans to land on the moon.

According to the original plan, the three astronauts killed by Apollo 1 were the best candidates for the first moon landing, followed by an astronaut of Apollo 7.

As a result, in the space environment simulation, he had a runny nose under a weightless environment, which might cause dehydration and death.

It was their turn.

From left to right: Armstrong, Collins, Aldrin

According to the plan, after reaching the moon, the main spacecraft "Columbia" will fly around the moon and separate the "Eagle" lunar module.

Both names have their own meanings.

The Columbia is from the work "From Earth to the Moon" by the French novelist Verne 100 years ago. The spaceship that flew to the moon in that book is called the Columbia; "Eagle" is the national symbol of the United States and the Bald Eagle

After that, Armstrong and Aldrin will take the Eagle to the moon. Collins stayed on the Columbia and missed landing on the moon.

Immediately before departure, he received an order that if Armstrong and Aldrin were unable to return within one day, he would return to Earth alone in a spacecraft.

At that time, two companions had become the earliest human victims on the moon.

Half a month before the launch of Apollo 11, the Soviet Union preemptively launched a rocket to the moon.

It wants to land on the moon before the United States, humiliating Americans severely.

As a result, the bear was severely beaten by the reality.

Because a screw was not tightened, the rocket exploded 12 seconds after being lifted off, and over 2,300 tons of burning high-purity liquid oxygen and kerosene poured down from the sky.

It took the authorities 18 months to clean up the damage caused by the explosion.

Expert evaluation: This is the biggest damage caused by non-nuclear weapons in human history.

The White House has prepared two speeches.

One is the successful landing on the 11th of Apollo. President Nixon will read:

Because of your achievements, the sky has become a part of the human world. Make peace and tranquility on earth.

At this most precious moment in human history, people from all over the world have become one, and they are proud of your achievements.

The other was a letter of mourning. If they were killed, the president would say:

Fate determines that those who go to the moon will always rest on the moon.

These brave men have long known that they have no hope of returning, but they also know that because of their sacrifice, humanity will have more hope.

The astronauts prepared to sign their names on hundreds of photos and postcards. If they were killed, their families would sell them to make money to maintain their homes.

They once considered buying insurance, but most insurance companies refused to insure them. There are a few companies left, and the bids also make them unacceptable.

On July 20, after four days of space trek, Columbia reached the moon and successfully separated.

"Eagle" began to move to the moon 60 miles away.

At this time, the whole world is paying attention to one issue:

Who will be the first person to land on the moon?

The answer is: Neil Armstrong.

Forty minutes later, on July 20, 1969, at 4:17:42 PM Houston time, the Space Center heard the long-awaited words:

Houston, the Eagle has successfully landed in the sea.

This still sea is not the still sea in Tianjin, but a basin in the center of a crater that was explored by the Apollo spacecraft in previous times.

Jinghai covers an area of 420,000 square kilometers, which is about the size of the Black Sea. If you don't know how big the Black Sea is, then thinking about Heilongjiang (450,000 square kilometers) is not outrageous.

In fact, the moon landing was almost unsuccessful.

When descending to the surface of the moon, the lunar module computer made an error, issued a fault alert, and asked to cancel the mission. But Armstrong did not believe in evil and insisted on manual driving to complete the task.

The honor of mankind's first moon landing finally belongs to him.

After three hours of preparation, Armstrong climbed down from the lunar module, and nearly 700 million people around the world watched him carefully move towards the desolate lunar surface through a television camera installed on the Eagle.

This is Aldrin. As for why it ’s not Armstrong, here ’s

During this time, they all played the fourth movement of Czech composer Dvořák's Ninth Symphony "From New World" in the lunar module. It is said that this song implicitly commemorates Columbus's discovery of the New World of America.

4.Allegroonfuoo (enthusiastic Allegro in the fourth movement)

BerlinerPhilharmoniker; RafaelKubelik-Dvorak: The9Symphonies

When his left foot touched the surface of the moon, Armstrong said the first words of humans on the moon.

What should humans say on the moon? I am afraid that everyone in the world has its own answer.

Before the moon landing, he received tens of thousands of letters of advice on this issue.

Among them, the total number ranked first and second were reading the Bible and reading a section of Shakespeare, respectively.

But instead of giving this honor to God and Shakespeare, he said a word of owning intellectual property rights.

That \ 'sonesmallstepforman, onegiantleapformankind.

This is a small step for me, but a big step for human beings.

He knew that whatever he said in the first sentence, it would be engraved in the history of human beings and be remembered forever by people across races and nationalities.

No one can stand the temptation. This is human nature.

In contrast, the first sentence of Yuri Gagarin, the first Soviet astronaut who flew into space, seemed very creative.

Flight is normal.

Nineteen minutes later, Aldrin was out of the cabin.

Behind them, the distant horizon of the moon seems to be within reach. When you look up, you can see the half bright and half dim earth, and the African continent and the Arabian Peninsula next to it are clearly visible.

Underneath it is silver-gray lunar soil.

Because there is no air on the moon, there is no weathering effect. In Armstrong's words, the lunar soil is hard and sharp like a mixture of dust and coral reefs.

The moon doesn't smell good. When they returned, they smelled the moon dust on their spacesuits and felt like the smell of metal and gunpowder exploding.

Without air, the medium for sound transmission, there is only silence on the moon.

This is probably the quietest place that humans have ever walked.

In addition to being able to hear human voices while talking on a headset, astronauts in space suits can only hear humming signal noises and their own heartbeats.

Because the moon's gravity is only one-sixth of Earth's, spacesuits that are too heavy to walk on Earth weigh less than twenty kilograms here. Taking a few steps, you can jump almost half a meter high.

Due to a lack of understanding of the moon, NASA gave them only two hours and forty minutes of lunar activity on the first lunar landing.

The two astronauts first placed a metal plaque on the moon. The plaque was carved with the outline of the earth's east and west hemispheres, and a sentence.

This sentence is very official:

In 1969, humans from the planet Earth set foot on the moon for the first time. We come for peace for all mankind.

After that, they placed a miniature telegraph CD engraved from the leaders of the 67 countries on the moon. It's as if the moon itself is a CD player.

They also planted a special American flag on the moon. Because there is no wind on the moon, and you want to capture the scene of the flag flying, the flag is fixed on the flagpole by metal wires.

At the request of the scientists, they took another series of photos of the moon, collected 22.6 kilograms of rocks, measured the temperature of the moon's surface, and set up a seismograph to record the earthquake on the moon. Oh, it should be said, Yuezhen.

The camera used to take photos was specially made by Hasselblad and equipped with Carl Zeiss's special lens, which can take pictures normally at a low temperature of minus two Baidu.

However, Armstrong took dozens of photos for Aldrin before and after. Aldrin also took a lot of pictures of the moon and the universe, but did not take a picture for Armstrong.

As a result, the photo of the first person on the moon on the moon was only a small reflection on Aldrin's helmet.

This is also true humanity.

NASA allows each astronaut to carry 1 pound of personal items to the moon as a souvenir for his family.

Armstrong carried the badge of his deceased daughter and a medallion engraved with the names of the three astronauts killed in Apollo 1 and the two Soviet astronauts, including Yuri Gagarin.

Because it was impossible for the Soviet Union to land on the moon, their widow commissioned Armstrong to bring the medal to the moon and let her husband's name rest there.

Aldrin carried a small bottle of wine, a silver cup and a piece of bread. Since he was not the first person to reach the moon, he became the first Christian to eat the sacrament outside the earth.

When completing the task, President Nixon also made a cross-ball call to the two to express their condolences.

Technical support is provided by Motorola. It is a pity that there is a confidentiality agreement. Motorola did not stand up until 1982 to publicize it. Otherwise, an advertisement that "Motorola has a big network and the moon on the earth" will come up.

After that, the Eagle restarted its engine and took off to dock with Columbia.

They see clearly:

The American flag, which had just been inserted into the moon, was knocked down by the shock wave from the takeoff.

So far, this American flag has fallen on the moon. It might go down like this forever.

Later, the Columbia threw the Eagle and returned to Earth at a speed of 39,593 kilometers per hour.

Three days later, in the southwestern waters of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean, radar detected this extremely fast alien.

A few minutes later, the spacecraft penetrated the atmosphere, and three red and white parachutes led the spacecraft into the sea. The three were awaiting rescue by a helicopter ashore.

This time, Aldrin took the lead.

He first got out of the spacecraft and shouted:

I am the first human to return to Earth from an alien!

A few months after returning to Earth, three members of Apollo 11 were sent around the world for a forty-five day zheng fu visit (gong) question (guan).

Of the three, Armstrong became the most eye-catching presence. This makes him introverted.

The two major parties in the United States, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, have tried their best to capture the legend. Because which party has him, it will add millions of votes.

In Ohio, Armstrong's hometown, rejected brands and reporters surrounded Armstrong's parents' homes.

The merchants sent gifts and cash in hopes of getting a breakthrough from Old Armstrong and persuading his son to be a brand spokesperson. The family had to call the police repeatedly. Armstrong announced that he would not enter space again.

Even a media belonging to a certain religion came out:

In fact, Armstrong heard the call from the Lord on the moon, for which he has secretly joined me to teach.

All this noise and prosperity is exactly what Aldrin expected.

His sentence that I was the first human to return from an alien did not cause much shock, and he felt a deep loss.

When the whole world was watching Armstrong's every move, not only few people paid attention to his second person, but even began to accuse him: Why didn't you take a picture of Armstrong?

His response was that he did not remember. But this response is estimated to be unconvinced by himself.

Previously, at NASA's internal evaluation meetings, all project leaders agreed that Armstrong was the most suitable candidate for the first moon landing.

The reason is that Armstrong is calm and quiet, only thinking of the task in his head, not being dazzled by this joy.

And Aldrin is the kind of person who lives under the flashlight, desperately wants this honor, and can't wait for everyone to know his glorious deeds.

Aldrin was hit hard after the announcement of the first man to land on the moon was Armstrong. His father, Aldrin Old, a retired Air Force colonel, also looked for relationships in an attempt to change the outcome.

After that, Aldrin began to experience persistent alcoholism, detoxification, insomnia, and depression, and he divorced twice.

To this end, Old Aldrin also wanted to sue NASA for the following reasons:

The moon destroyed my son.

After the success of Apollo 11, the US moon landing program quickly began, launching a spacecraft to the moon at a frequency of half a year.

Four months later, two astronauts on Apollo 12 landed on the moon.

There was more or less Aldrin-like regret in their hearts.

Then Apollo 13 completed a near-impossible miracle. After the launch, the spacecraft had an oxygen leak explosion, and the three astronauts successfully escaped and returned to Earth using the lunar module.

Apollo 14 completed the longest human walking record on the moon, and the two astronauts walked for 9 hours, 22 minutes, and 31 seconds.

Starting from Apollo 15, astronauts are equipped with lunar rover on the moon, and can drive and walk freely. And this time, a scandal broke.

At each moon landing, NASA will allow astronauts to carry 1-pound personal items to the moon as a memorial to family and friends.

Before Apollo 15 landed on the moon, a businessman found three astronauts, entrusted them to bring 400 memorial envelopes secretly, and returned them to the earth with $ 6,000 each.

At the time, astronauts only subsidized $ 8 a day.

It didn't take long for the envelopes to be resold to Germany for $ 1,300 each.

The news came to light through the media, causing a sensation of public opinion in the United States. NASA announced that they had been fired.

Apollo 16 achieved a drag racing on the moon. Two astronauts were rolling around in the craters while climbing each other to make fun. Who put more farts on the moon?

The Washington Post commented on this:

What kind of guys did we send to the moon?

It didn't take long for Nixon to announce that the original lunar landing on Apollo 20 was cancelled, and the last execution was Apollo 17.

According to the budget, the plan to invest in the moon is USD 25.2 billion, and the actual expenditure exceeds USD 37.4 billion.

At its peak, budget expenditures for this project accounted for 4% of the federal budget.

From the moment he met the three astronauts after the successful return of Apollo 11, Nixon wanted to stop this big project that burned money.

Because the Soviet Union has lost in this competition. Stopping the moon landing project will not only be less criticized in Congress, but also win the support of more voters.

Now, the six moon landings have given the United States enough knowledge of the moon and earned enough face. okay.

Not long after Nixon's decision was announced, Armstrong resigned from NASA and went to college as a teacher.

On December 7, 1972, the world's attention focused on the Apollo 17 spacecraft again, the last moon landing launch.

This year, the United States was caught in the Vietnam War and the endless rumors of domestic crusade.

NASA even received a threat of attack before launch: Some people threatened to shoot rockets hundreds of meters away and destroy the last moon landing with a rifle bullet.

Fortunately, everything went well.

This time, they set a record for a lunar landing. They collected more than 110 kilograms of rock on the surface of the moon.

When returning, Commander Eugene Cernan and three other astronauts did another thing and still affect humans on Earth.

They took a full picture of the Earth from the perspective of the moon. The blue earth was quietly suspended in the dark universe.

There, billions of humans and countless lives thrive, and people greet the birth, love, and death of life every day.

The name of this photo is called "blue marbles".

A few years later in China, a programmer who graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology developed a mobile phone application and chose this photo as the startup page.

Later, this software became a national application in China, used by hundreds of millions of people every day.

Its name is: WeChat.

More changes are unexpected.

After the moon landing plan, attending business events, lectures, books, and endorsements became the daily life of astronauts after retirement.

Although they have become the heroes of the world, they are still ordinary people in the final analysis.

Compared to the previous subsidy of $ 8, you can now get tens of thousands of dollars by standing. Few can withstand the wealth, fame and beauty that this success brings.

Ten years after the moon landing, nearly half of the astronauts chose to divorce.

However, their relationship has become subtle.

When astronauts participating in the Apollo program attended business events together, they discovered:

Also on the Apollo spacecraft to the moon, astronauts who once landed on the moon can get tens of thousands of dollars each time, while astronauts who fly the spacecraft only have a few thousand dollars.

For many years, the divorce rate in the area near the Kennedy Space Center also jumped to the highest level in the United States.

During peak times, hundreds of thousands of employee families of NASA and outsourcing companies lived here.

One of the reasons leading to the breakdown of the marriage was that in the ten years before the moon landing plan, the vast majority of people were busy working overtime, lacking communication between couples, and failing to accompany their children to grow up.

In the eyes of the Nixon era, the hugely expensive project of the moon landing did not bring any practical benefits. Its value is, at best, the greatest romance left by humans in space.

After the suspension, its value gradually emerged in the process of gradual civilianization and openness.

Because three astronauts were killed as a result of the Apollo 1 fire, NASA commissioned a chemical company to develop a flame-retardant fiber material and lightweight breathing system to ensure that people can breathe normally in the flames.

Later, this material and respiratory system were widely used in fire protection clothing, saving the lives of countless firefighters and ordinary people.

This company later transformed into an agricultural technology company, which is quite famous in China. Its name is: Monsanto.

During the 10-year plan to land on the moon, in order to solve the problem of overweight electronic components of the spacecraft, NASA made a promise to contractors: to reduce the weight of parts and components by one pound can get tens of thousands of dollars in bonuses.

IBM has secured a large number of integrated circuit orders and subcontracted to a company called Fairchild. Because the products produced are stable and reliable, both have received substantial investment from NASA.

After the moon landing, IBM continued to make breakthroughs in this series of technologies, and in the next decade produced the world's first personal computer, the IBM 5150.

Several employees of Fairchild Company have left the company and started several companies. One of them is called Intel.

When developing the moon landing technology, in order to reduce the tedious computer operation steps, an NASA engineer thought of using "point control" instead of typing on the keyboard.

In the end, he made a wooden box with metal rollers, and the boxes on both sides can be clicked freely.

This little thing that looks like a mouse has its own name—the mouse.

...

In the last ten years, the results of NASA statistics show that the Apollo plan has brought about 2,000 major technological inventions in total.

They changed the world silently.

Over the years, conspiracy theories of moon landings have also continued.

Conspiracy theorists claim that there is no moon landing in the United States, and everything is just an illusion made in a Hollywood studio, and NASA has masked all humankind with special effects.

The latest strong proof of the true existence of the moon landing was made by China.

In 2010, China's Chang'e-2 satellite orbited the moon and successfully captured the footprints, wheel marks and engine impact marks left by the Apollo moon landing on the moon six times.

It is estimated that there is the American flag falling on the moon.

The Chang'e series of satellites also have a wonderful fate with Apollo.

In 1978, China and the United States were about to establish diplomatic relations. The United States gave China a gift: a moon rock.

It was a rock poured in plexiglass and enveloped in glazed glass. Break open and see that it is only the size of a bean.

Weight: 1 gram.

This 1 gram was also extremely valuable to China at the time.

In half, 0.3 grams were put on display in the Beijing Planetarium; and another 0.7 grams, the State Council organized studies in eight units in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Kunming, Guiyang and other places.

It was finally discovered that it belonged to a part of 110 kilograms of moon rock brought back by "Apollo 17" on the last moon landing.

Around this 0.7-gram moon, Chinese science and technology workers were angry and researched, and wrote a dozen papers within a year.

Among the authors of the paper, there is a technician named Ouyang Ziyuan.

Thirty years later, he presided over the design of China's Chang'e series of satellites.

Apollo planned to send 12 people to the moon for 11 years. Since then, no human has set foot on the moon.

Over the years, the influence of the moon landing as an event has gradually weakened.

Armstrong discovered at the age of 72 that he no longer needed to wear sunglasses and masks when going out alone.

The main reason is that the moon landing has faded out of people's lives, and people have stopped paying attention to astronauts in a distant era.

Another reason is that he is too old to get back on his back, making it difficult to recognize in the crowd.

Aldrin ushered in the highlights of life decades later.

Over the years, he has given high-profile speeches here, announcing that he will start as a writer and an actor, and plans to travel to Mars.

He has starred in 19 movies and TV series, playing all his roles.

One of the most famous is "Transformers 3", which is set on the background of human moon landing. It is a fictional story of Apollo 11 bringing back the energy column of Cybertron star from the dark side of the moon.

The changes that the moon landing has made to the world have become more apparent decades later.

In November 2008, in the US capital Washington, a black man won the 44th US election and was elected president of the United States.

He was the boy who was watching the Apollo 11 launch in front of the television set, Barack *.

In his post-election speech, he once again mentioned the impact of watching the moon landing that year:

It was the moon landing that made me understand that, with the unremitting efforts, the impossible and the opportunity become possible.

Who says the president does not chase the stars?

In 2012, Armstrong died. * Ordered collective flags across the United States to mourn the first man on the moon.

And the breakdown of the scientific and technological achievements and convenient life that human beings enjoy today is mostly from the scientific development and technological progress of the 1960s and 1970s.

Humans at that time, like adolescents who just opened their eyes to the world, had curiosity to explore and discover.

For the romantic goal of landing on the moon, hundreds of thousands of people have long worked overtime for free for the Apollo project without compensation.

In the years since the end of the Cold War, it is not just space. Humans have generally fallen into conservative dilemmas in the exploration of more unknown technologies.

Not just because of cost.

We are more passionate about chasing safety and comfort, but we have lost our dreams and lack the patience to pursue a higher goal.

George Musser, a famous American science writer, points out:

Our concept of the present moment is compatible with our evolutionary environment, but it is hindering our future survival.

Because of the lack of longer-term future planning, it is not surprising that our space exploration cannot continue and human beings cannot deal with slow progress such as climate change.

In 2017, Eugene Cernan, who filmed "Blue Marble", died in Texas, USA.

As the last human who left his footprints on the moon, he actually did a very personal thing to the moon.

At the last moment when he left the moon, he leaned down and wrote the name of his 9-year-old daughter Tray on the moon with his fingers.

Because there is no air or weather on the moon's surface, Tray's name will exist on the moon for millions of years.

At Cernan's funeral, the world ’s luckiest daughter, Tray, was already a middle-aged woman in her 50s, and read the letter her father had written to herself:

Evenifoneday, Ian’tontinuetoapanyyou, whenyoulookuptoseethemoon, youanseepapaleftyourownimprint.

Even if I can't stay with you one day, when you look up to see the moon, you can see the exclusive imprint left by your father.

About this story, a band named nomoreking wrote a song called "Tray‘ sSong ".

My shadow is in the front and behind

I set foot on this unknown land

First and last time

Even with heavy tasks

I still have a little thought

Want to change her mind

The girl who was left at home

For me ~ www.readwn.com ~ For the man she had wept for

This small step