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NPR: Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Map, superimposed on a soccer field This is NASA’s version of everywhere Neil and Buzz went on the moon’s surface in 1969. The lunar landing vehicle, marked LM on the map, is at the center. You can click and look around at the details. When you superimpose a soccer field on top of NASA’s map, it turns out Armstrong and Aldrin — the entire time they were there — barely crossed 90 yards of moon! Or superimposed on a baseball field. To which, Neil Armstrong responds: During my testimony in May I said, “Some question why Americans should return to the Moon. “After all,” they say “we have already been there.” I find that mystifying. It would be as if 16th century monarchs proclaimed that “we need not go to the New World, we have already been there.” Or as if President Thomas Jefferson announced in 1803 that Americans “need not go west of the Mississippi, the Lewis and Clark Expedition has already been there.”  Americans have visited and examined 6 locations on Luna, varying in size from a suburban lot to a small township. That leaves more than 14 million square miles yet to explore. Read more here.

NPR: Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Map, superimposed on a soccer field

This is NASA’s version of everywhere Neil and Buzz went on the moon’s surface in 1969. The lunar landing vehicle, marked LM on the map, is at the center. You can click and look around at the details.

When you superimpose a soccer field on top of NASA’s map, it turns out Armstrong and Aldrin — the entire time they were there — barely crossed 90 yards of moon!

Or superimposed on a baseball field.

To which, Neil Armstrong responds:

During my testimony in May I said, “Some question why Americans should return to the Moon. “After all,” they say “we have already been there.” I find that mystifying. It would be as if 16th century monarchs proclaimed that “we need not go to the New World, we have already been there.” Or as if President Thomas Jefferson announced in 1803 that Americans “need not go west of the Mississippi, the Lewis and Clark Expedition has already been there.”  Americans have visited and examined 6 locations on Luna, varying in size from a suburban lot to a small township. That leaves more than 14 million square miles yet to explore.

Read more here.

(via crookedindifference)

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