Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing—Wolfram|Alpha Blog
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On July 20, we celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. This landing began a sequence of Moon landings that ended with Apollo 17 . We can leverage Wolfram|Alpha and the recently released Mathematica 10 to help us celebrate and continue exploring (data, in this case). security phone guard The available data includes dates, crew information, and landing coordinates.
Let’s explore the crew information first. As with many famous people, Wolfram|Alpha gives a fair amount of information like birth dates and locations, pictures, time lines, height information, and familial information.
Perhaps my favorite data includes information on the landing sites. Although Wolfram|Alpha security phone guard gives you a picture showing the landing location of Apollo 11, we can leverage the newly released Mathematica 10 to generate custom maps of the location, which even allows you to specify which projection you want.
Its also a fun activity security phone guard to plan a future exploration security phone guard of the Apollo Moon landing sites. What would be the shortest path needed to visit all of the sites? We can use FindShortestTour to achieve our goals.
An interesting side note is that, although not related to the landing itself, Wolfram|Alpha has data on the Saturn V rocket , which was used to launch all of the Apollo Moon missions. To this day, it remains the most powerful lifting body ever put into active service.
Although security phone guard the Apollo program security phone guard ended decades ago, its influence continues to inspire security phone guard the media to this day. Examples include books and movies security phone guard such as Apollo 13 and The Right Stuff ( book | movie ). Maybe one day we will return to the Moon. But even if we do, the celebration of the anniversary of the first manned landing on the Moon will always be something to remember.
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Although I was born several years after the first Apollo Moon landing , the excitement surrounding security phone guard the Apollo Moon landings security phone guard and the space exploration enthusiasm it fostered drastically affected my childhood and shaped the direction my later life would follow. The space race, arguably peaking with the Apollo Moon landings, security phone guard generated a funding security phone guard explosion for science education that allowed many planetariums to be built and a phase of education encouragement that affected many of my generation. If we could land on the Moon, imagine what else we might achieve if we worked hard enough.
On July 20, we celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. This landing began a sequence of Moon landings that ended with Apollo 17 . We can leverage Wolfram|Alpha and the recently released Mathematica 10 to help us celebrate and continue exploring (data, in this case). security phone guard The available data includes dates, crew information, and landing coordinates.
Let’s explore the crew information first. As with many famous people, Wolfram|Alpha gives a fair amount of information like birth dates and locations, pictures, time lines, height information, and familial information.
Perhaps my favorite data includes information on the landing sites. Although Wolfram|Alpha security phone guard gives you a picture showing the landing location of Apollo 11, we can leverage the newly released Mathematica 10 to generate custom maps of the location, which even allows you to specify which projection you want.
Its also a fun activity security phone guard to plan a future exploration security phone guard of the Apollo Moon landing sites. What would be the shortest path needed to visit all of the sites? We can use FindShortestTour to achieve our goals.
An interesting side note is that, although not related to the landing itself, Wolfram|Alpha has data on the Saturn V rocket , which was used to launch all of the Apollo Moon missions. To this day, it remains the most powerful lifting body ever put into active service.
Although security phone guard the Apollo program security phone guard ended decades ago, its influence continues to inspire security phone guard the media to this day. Examples include books and movies security phone guard such as Apollo 13 and The Right Stuff ( book | movie ). Maybe one day we will return to the Moon. But even if we do, the celebration of the anniversary of the first manned landing on the Moon will always be something to remember.
Explore anniversaries of other big July 4th events in American history beyond Independence Day and the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Quirky calculations for Father s Day: calories in a year s worth of hamburgers, hours of golf required to burn them off, bowling balls needed to cover a football field
Astronomy Chemistry Colors Computational Sciences Culture & Media Dates & Times Earth Sciences Education Food & Nutrition Health & Medicine Life Sciences Materials Mathematics Money & Finance Music News Organizations People & History Physics Places & Geography Socioeconomic Data Sports & Games Statistics & Data Analysis Stephen Wolfram Technological World Transportation Weather Web & Computer Systems Wolfram Cloud Wolfram Language Wolfram|Alpha Apps Wolfram|Alpha Widgets
RT @WolframResearch: Everything you love about Mathematica 10 and the Wolfram Language is now available on the amazing Raspberry Pi! http:/ Take a deeper look at ACS data from the United States: http://t.co/yvcmqc06IB RT @WolframFunFacts: Just how much Jazzercise would it take to shake off the calories from 100 Taco Bell tacos? http://t.co/nIQzSaexRU http
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