Space and planetary exploration was easier when I was in 6th grade...review ques?

[Simpleminded]

Good morning SFN posters, I have some questions that I am hoping will be plain old simple knowledge for many of you. I spent most of the night trying to find a few answers for my daughter that she not find in her notes, the book and not even online (granted the way you type things can be your hinderance.) She has a big test tomorrow so any help in figuring these out so she can study them properly would be so much appreciated.

 

Okay so there was the project apollo mission for space exploration, and they placed numbers after Apollo for what I thought was each subsequent mission starting with 1. In this particular question the ask the significance of 11 for Apollo 11 and for some reason it does not talk of these numbers anywhere that I can find other than what their specific missions were. Does anyone know what the significance of the number is?

 

The next question was about landing on the moon and they as "what was the name of the area on the moon where the landing occurred?" I know they had like 20 seconds of fuel left when armstrong found the perfect spot but it never mentions what the area was called.

 

The last thing we are stuck on in these 220 questions is the vehicle on the moon called the "eagle" What was the acronym for the vehicle?

 

I appreciate anyone even willing to read and accept the challenge. We are both deprived of sleep today and I just dont know where to look next.

 

Respectfully

SM

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

There were numerous specific Apollo missions. Apollo 11, for example, was the first to actually land on the moon, while Apollos 8, 9 and 10 just looped around it. Apollo 17 was the last mission. Apollo 1 was the first, which was intended to just go into Earth orbit but instead caught fire on the launch pad. So the number just refers to which mission in the Apollo series it was.

 

Apollo 11 landed in the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon, hence the famous quote "Tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed."

 

The Eagle's acronym would be LM (Lunar Module) or perhaps LEM (Lunar Excursion Module). Both were used, although LM became preferred over LEM.

 

Incidentally, my username ("Cap'n Refsmmat") is named after an inside joke in NASA flight control -- Cap'n Refsmmat was the "ideal flight controller", with radar in his helmet and the correct de-orbit spacecraft orientation inscribed on his glasses lenses.

[swansont]

I will pedantically point out that LM is not an acronym, but LEM is.

[Simpleminded]

Cap'n Refsmmat,

 

Thank you so much for the quick response and answers. These questions were literally hurting my head because I could not find them anywhere and she and I both read the chapter numerous times. It was all worth it though as I learned some interesting things myself I missed as a kid.

 

Good day to you all! Thanks again.

 

SM

[Mr Skeptic]

Haha, you should consider using Wikipedia and Google for specific questions. Search takes seconds on electronic media, much faster than looking through a textbook.