This year we are learning Astronomy in our Science Co-op.
And this week we learned about the moon.
When Alan Sheppard was on the moon, he hit a golf ball and drove it 2,400 feet, nearly one half a mile (around 1km). A golf ball usually goes around 200 feet.
Did you know that Neil Armstrong’s footprint could be seen in 10million years? On Earth you might not see it tomorrow.
In a survey conducted in 1988, 13% of those surveyed believed that the moon is made of cheese.
How close can you get without completely running out of gas? Apollo 11 had only 20 seconds of fuel left when they landed on the moon.
The multi layer space suits worn by the astronauts to the moon weighed 180 pounds on earth, but only thirty pounds on the moon.
Did you know that I would only weigh 13 pounds on the moon?
Moon weight (your weight )x(0.166)=moon weight
Me and my brother made a Lunar Rover out of Lego ...
The Lunar Roving Vehicle or Moon Buggy was a 4-wheeled rover used on the moon during the last three missions (Apollo 15, 16, 17).
The rover could carry one or two astronauts, their equipment and moon samples.
The rovers had a top speed of about 13 km/ h.
The final design, the tires, the folding mechanism of the assembly were the inventions of the Hungarian-American engineer Ferenc Pavlics.
The rover was developed in only 17 months with no major problems.
But there were some minor problems.
The Apollo 17 Rover’s back right fender was bumped and broken when the astronaut hit it with a hammer. The astronauts were covered in dust. So they put tape on the fender but it didn’t stick. Then they put some maps on the broken fender held together with gray tape and clamps. And this worked.
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