2. Facts about Moon
Size and Distance
Diameter of Moon 3476 KM
Earth Diameter 12742 KM
Volume of Moon 2.195 x10^10 KM3
2% of the Earth
Earth equals 50 Moons
Mass of Moon 7.347x 10^22 kg
1.2% of Earth
Earth equals 81 Moons
Distance Varies from 4,06,697 km to
3,56,410 KM
3. Mission sent to Moon
Luna 1
First Mission on
Moon by USSR
Jan 2nd , 1959
Impact Moon
Missed the Moon
4. Mission Sent on Moon
Luna 2
Second Mission on
Moon by USSR
Sept12th, 1959
Impact Moon
Worlds First Lunar
Impact
5. Luna 3
Luna 3
Third Mission on
Moon by USSR
Oct 4th , 1959
Fly By around
Moon
First Photo of
Moon’s Far Side
6. Luna 4
Luna 3
Third Mission on
Moon by USSR
April 2nd ,1963
Moon Landing
Missed the Moon
by 8500 kms
7. Luna 5
Luna 5
Third Mission on
Moon by USSR
May 9th, 1965
Moon Landing
Crashed into the
Moon
8. Luna 6
Luna 6
Third Mission on
Moon by USSR
June 8th, 1965
Moon Landing
Missed Moon by
160000 kms
9. Luna 7
Luna 7
Third Mission on
Moon by USSR
Oct 4th, 1965
Moon Landing
Crashed into the
Moon
10. Luna 8
Luna 8
Third Mission on
Moon by USSR
Dec 3rd, 1965
Moon Landing
Crashed during
Landing Attempt
11. Luna 9
Luna 8
Third Mission on
Moon by USSR
Jan 31st, 1966
Moon Landing
World’s First Soft
Landing on Moon
on 3rd Feb, 1966
12. Luna 10
Luna 10
March 31st, 1966
Lunar Orbitting
Entered Moon’s
Orbit on April 3rd
and orbitted for 56
days
13. American Lunar Mission
Apollo 8
Dec 21st, 1968
Frank Borman, Jim
Lovell, William A.
Anders
First Human Lunar
Orbit
14. Apollo 10
May 18th, 1969
Thomas P.
Stafford, John W.
Young, Eugene
Cernan
Second Human
Lunar Orbit
Dress Rehearsal of
landing on Moon
15. Apollo 11 – The Moon Conqueror
The first Human Landing
July 16th , 1969
Neil Armstrong,
Michael Collins,
Edwin E. "Buzz"
Aldrin
First Human
Landing on Moon
Landed on July
20th
16. First Man on Moon
First man on Moon
DOB Aug 5th 1930
One Extra
Vehicular Activity
(EVA)
Spent 2.5 hrs on
the Surface of
Moon
First Space flight
on Gemini 8, 1966
17. Second Man on Moon
Second Man on
Moon
DOB Jan 20th,1930
Pilot of Lunar
Module of Apollo
11
Stepped on Moon
minutes after Neil
18. Apollo XII – Second Human
Landing on Moon
Launched on 14th
Nov, 1969 4 mths
after Apollo XI
Crew Members
Charles Conrad, Jr.
; Richard F Gordon,
Jr. ; Alan L. Bean
Landed on 19th
Nov, 1969
19. Crew Members of Apollo XII
Left to right: Conrad, Gordon, Bean
20. Apollo XIII – A Failed
Mission
Launched on April 11th
1970
Could not land on
Moon because of
Onboard explosion,
safely return back on
15th April, 1970
Crew: James A. Lovell,
Jr. ; John L. Swigert ;
Fred W. Haise, Jr.
21. Crew Member of Apollo XIII
Left to right: Lovell, Mattingly, Haise.
22. Apollo XIV – Third Human
Landing on Moon
Launched on
January 31st, 1971,
landed on moon on
5th Feb, 1971
Crew :Alan B.
Shepard, Jr ; Stuart
A. Roosa :Edgar D.
Mitchell
Returned back on
9th Feb, 1971
24. Appolo XV- Fourth Human
Landing on Moon
Mission Launched on
July 26th ,1971, landed
on 30th July
Crew Members: David
R. Scott ; Alfred M.
Worden ; James B.
Irwin
Stayed on Moon for
almost 3 days
Returned back on
August7th 1971
26. Apollo XVI – 5th Human
Landing on Moon
Launched on April 16th
1972, landed on 21st
April, 1972
Crew :John W. Young ;
T. Kenneth Mattingly
Jr. ; Charles M. Duke
Jr. .
Stayed on Moon for 3
days and spent 20 hrs
on EVA
Returned Back on April
27th 1972
28. Apollo XVII – 6th &THE LAST
Human Landing on Moon
Launched on Dec 7th ,
1972 &landed on Dec
11th
Crew :Eugene A.
Cernan ; Ronald E.
Evans ; Harrison H.
Schmitt
Stayed on Moon for
3days and EVA for 22
hrs
Returned back on Dec
19th, 1972
30. The Last Man on MOON
Born on 14th March,
1934
Last Man on Moon
Spent 23 days 14
hours and 15
minutes in space
Participated in
Gemini 9A, Apollo
10, Apollo 17
Missions
31. Our own Chandrayaan1
Launched on October
22, 2008
Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO)
From Sriharikota,
Andhra Pradesh
4th November Landed
on Moon
Mission Duration 312
days
32. Chandrayaan 1
Missions Accomplishments:
To construct the complex spacecraft with 11 scientific
instruments.
To place the spacecraft in a circular orbit around the
Moon by orbit raising manoeuvres from a near Earth
orbit.
To place the Flag of India on the Moon.
To carry out imaging operations and to collect data on
the mineral content of the lunar soil.
To set up a deep space tracking network and
implement the operational procedures for travel into
deep space.
33. Chandrayaan 1
Data From Chandrayaan suggests the
availabilty of water on Moon
Chandrayaan also discovers Large
Caves, these caves can be human
shelter on Moon