Apollo 11

The first people on the Moon

Only spacecraft can see it

The numbers

They brought home almost fifty pounds of lunar rock, which is still being studied today.

Less than a full day passed between landing and leaving.

These are not in the book: there was no room on paper.

The landing site was given the name Statio Tranquillitatis, which means Tranquility Base.
They collected forty-seven pounds of rock and dust, which are still being studied now.
About twenty-one hours after landing, the three astronauts were already together again in orbit.
The footprints left that day are still there, because there is no wind on the Moon.
That trip came only twelve years after the launch of the first artificial satellite.

The first question is the one printed under the QR code, with the answer the book did not give. The other four only exist here.

Question 1 of 5★ is the one from your book

How many astronauts were on Apollo 11?

Question 2 of 5

What was the craft that went down to the Moon called?

Question 3 of 5

What did they bring back to the Earth?

Question 4 of 5

How long did they stay on the Moon?

Question 5 of 5

Why are the footprints still there?

I touched gray ground nobody had ever walked on, I left a footprint there that is still there, and I left in less than a day. What am I?

I brought home forty-seven pounds of another world, and people are still studying them after more than half a century. What am I?

Activity 1

Look for the photograph of a lunar boot print: that striped pattern has stayed exactly the same since then, because no wind wipes it away.

Activity 2

Try staying alone in a dark room for one minute, thinking of the third astronaut, who spent hours like that behind the Moon, with no radio.