the summer of 1969 was an eventful one it was a season of good and bad Saran Saran was convicted of murdering New York Senator Robert F Kennedy the last episode of Star Trek aired The Beatles snatched the top song on Billboard's list President Nixon pulled out 25 000 U.S troops from Vietnam the Manson Murders happened and a hurricane claimed the lives of more than 250 people these are only a few of the most historic and memorable moments of that year an unforgettable summer indeed but the Zenith of The Summer of 69 was perhaps the Apollo 11 mission on May 18 the Apollo 10 mission was launched the National Aeronautics and Space Administration commenced the mission in preparation for Apollo 11 another attempt by the United States to step on the moon and on July 20th 1969 Mission Commander Neil Armstrong and crewmate Buzz Aldrin became the first and second astronauts to step on the moon with the success of the Apollo 11 Mission it was EXP expected that NASA would once again launch another moon landing project and yet it never happened behind the historic event and all the glory or setbacks that could have easily ended the mission prematurely or ended the mission disastrously it turns out that there are several reasons why we haven't pursued going back to the Moon let's dive into the little-known details of the famous moon landing and figure out the reasons why we haven't launched another moon mission from the takeoff to the aftermath here are 15 secrets about the Apollo 11 moon landing foreign number 15. the Apollo 11 was an impressive feed itself the Apollo 11 mission was the cultivation of hard work and hope of hundreds of thousands of people Armstrong himself acknowledged that to this day the spacecraft that took part in the mission remained to be the greatest engineering feat in the history of mankind in the 20th century Engineers started to plan and construct a ship that could break through our planet's atmosphere reach the moon and return back to our planet they needed a ship that would keep the crew alive throughout a return trip to the moon engineers and experts started from scratch it took more than eight years and 2.4 billion dollars for the Apollo 11 to be accomplished in today's money that amounts to a little over 23 billion dollars before we go on like this video smash the Subscribe button and click the notification Bell right now number 14. President Kennedy never cared about the moon when President John F Kennedy kicked off the mission in 1961 and announced that the United States would go to the Moon he made an audacious statement after all no one in the early 1960s expected that NASA would be able to construct a magnificent spacecraft capable of taking on the impossible mission of sending men to the moon and yet thousands of workers spent their time and effort to make it happen when Kennedy announced that he wanted the United States to be the very first to reach the moon and that he wanted to make it happen before the end of the 1960s NASA had nothing it had no Rockets computers spaceships or even space suits but they made it work and they completed the mission right on time but did you know that President Kennedy never cared about the moon no the ex-president's interest lay elsewhere Kennedy wanted to beat the Soviets into reaching the moon first more than five decades after the moon landing secret documents revealed the real reason why Kennedy pushed NASA to do the unthinkable at the time the Soviet Union was taking the lead in space exploration they were seen as the Pioneers after sending Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space and he became the first man to go to space Kennedy didn't push for the project in the name of science or for something novel like Gathering knowledge about the universe according to the curator of the smithsonian's Apollo collection teasel mere Harmony Kennedy pushed for the project to demonstrate what the American industry was capable of doing the higher-ups were motivated by political gains more than anything else at the time but in the end President Kennedy's ambition became one of the most impressive Feats of mankind number 13. the Soviets tried to hide their attempt to go to the Moon in the 1960s reaching the moon was a race between the Soviet Union and the United States however the Soviets denied their efforts to go to the Moon until 1989. the United States announced its intention to go to the Moon through Kennedy's speech but the Soviet Union never made their goals public instead the Soviets worked secretly on their own program and continued on even after Apollo 11 reached the moon on July 20th 1969. some people think that perhaps the Soviets didn't want to admit that they were beaten by claiming that they never participated in the moon race to begin with now have you ever wondered where all the conspiracy theories about the moon landing being faked came from the space race was one of the reasons why some people think that the moon landing was faked conspiracy theorists started to convince people that the moon landing never happened and that NASA staged the entire thing to beat the Soviets however rest easy because all these claims were debunked the moon landing is very much real and if you ever get the chance to step foot on the Moon you would surely see traces of past Moon missions up there number 12. no insurance company accepted the astronauts most of us have insurance it's always good to prepare for the worst after all usually it's not that hard to apply for but Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were quite different you see no insurance company would take you up as a client especially if you're bound to be sent to the moon on a blasting spaceship a lot commended their courage to embark on a space mission but most of the insurance companies were sure they would suffer a huge loss if they made a deal with any of the astronauts in short they believed that they would not be returning from the mission no one wanted to offer life insurance to the astronauts so the three decided to be creative the astronauts knew that there was a demand for their signatures online selling and auctions didn't exist back then but they knew that regardless of their safety their signatures would cost a lot of money a month before Apollo 11 was set to be commenced the three astronauts were quarantined and they spent their time signing hundreds of covers it was their own way of life insurance their postmarked autographs were supposed to be sold by their families should something happen to them in space in the end the Apollo 11 mission was a success the three astronauts came home safely and the autographs they left Behind still gave enough funds to their family today a single Insurance autograph can cost as much as a whopping thirty thousand dollars number 11. spacesuits were created by a lingerie company everything used in the Apollo 11 mission is hailed as an engineering Marvel so many people are often stumped upon hearing that the spacesuits that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin wore during the moon landing were made by a lingerie company Yes you heard that right Armstrong was wearing a custom-made spacesuit model a7l serial number 056 during the mission at the time it cost around a hundred thousand dollars and in today's money that would be more than 670 thousand dollars they didn't cut costs on the spacesuit it was meant to protect the astronauts from the lunar temperature which goes from a scorching 240 Fahrenheit in sunlight to a freezing minus 280 Fahrenheit in the shadows this suit was also meant to Shield them from solar ultraviolet radiation which could be lethal to man there was no room for error in the creation of the spacesuit and even a small error in the stitching would cause it to be rejected it was quite easy to make something that could withstand extreme temperatures and shield the astronauts from micro meteors but the biggest challenge was making something that was flexible the spacesuit makers were tasked to create a durable suit but that could still give the astronauts flexibility and nimbleness the astronauts need a decline Bend twist and move their arms comfortably while on the moon the international latex Corporation in Dover Delaware was the suit's creator but the one that figured out how to solve the problem of flexibility was Playtex a famous maker of bras and girdles in the 50s and 60s who knew that creators of female undergarments would solve the Dilemma of a flexible spacesuit number 10. astronauts trained rigorously the making of all the tech needed to reach the moon wasn't the only daunting part of the Apollo 11 Mission the astronauts tasked to step foot on the moon also underwent extreme preparation Armstrong Aldrin and Collins all underwent trips nationally and internationally to prepare their bodies for entering space they trained in several sites including Arizona Texas and Nevada the astronauts trained and practiced collecting and analyzing Rock and soil samples until it became muscle memory they dug trenches drove core tubes into the soil and did other training to make sure they would be able to collect samples properly however the most challenging thing was to undergo the g-force training they needed to maneuver themselves in zero gravity and they needed to be able to do everything from moving from one place to another to planting a flag astronauts were suspended sideways and they were tasked to walk along a wall to imitate the lower gravitational pull of the moon number nine the Saturn V rocket almost exploded Saturn V is a retired American super heavy lift launch vehicle created by NASA it was the one that launched Apollo 11 during its takeoff however NASA officials feared that it would blow up the spectators around the area because of an incident in 1968. at the time Apollo 6 was launched as a test flight and the massive rocket almost broke apart in 1965 two Engineers claimed that if an explosion ever occurred it would create a massive Fireball that was about 1400 feet wide with temperatures of up to 2 500 degrees Fahrenheit A lot of people gathered around the rocket in the Apollo 11 liftoff but NASA still decided to take a few precautions most of the VIP guests were sealed three and a half miles away from the pad during the liftoff just in case something happened fortunately Saturn V stayed strong and none of the spectators around the perimeter were harmed to this day the mighty Saturn V is still the largest and most powerful rocket to complete its assigned without any deaths or problems number eight Armstrong was too good of a pilot after the liftoff the success of the mission mostly relied on Neil Armstrong's capability before he was involved in the mission Armstrong was a Naval aviator engineer and test pilot it was often commended for his piloting skills and even Buzz Aldrin hails him as the best pilot he has ever known however did you know that Armstrong's perfectly piloting skills almost endangered him and His companion NASA tried to pinpoint the exact Landing location of the eagle in the Sea of Tranquility a section of the moon but upon reaching the spot there was a massive crater on the landing site Armstrong decided to manually navigate until he found a suitable place to land and he did so incredibly smoothly in fact it was so smooth that the eagle landed too softly the Lander's legs were supposed to break off and crumple after absorbing the shock of the landing but Armstrong was so good of a pilot that it didn't break that's why instead of taking a step the astronauts took a leap because the exit was higher than expected the soft Landing wasn't a problem but the small miscalculation on where the eagle would land cost them fuel fortunately Armstrong knew they had enough fuel to land somewhere safely and make it back number seven the moon had a smell have you ever wondered what the moon smells like well according to Armstrong and Aldrin it smelled like wet ashes and gunpowder upon reaching the moon the two had a lot of uncertainties and upon smelling lunar dust they feared that it was flammable they were ready to make preparations in case the lunar material caught on fire after making contact with oxygen but fortunately it didn't however the two astronauts claimed that the moon dust smelled so strongly it was also irritating so much so that the smell clung to the astronauts unfortunately scientists on Earth never got the chance to smell lunar dust because the smell dissipated on its way to our planet number six Buzz Aldrin took communion on the moon now this is definitely one of the things that NASA most likely tried to keep under wraps to this day not a lot of people are aware of aldrin's hushed up communion on the moon there was no other reason besides the fact that the Christian ceremony might Garner unwanted attention and scrutiny from the public Buzz Aldrin wasn't the first person to ever pray in space but he was the very first and most likely last to take part in the First Christian Sacrament on the moon he did the unthinkable he took sacred Bread and Wine blessed on Earth and performed the Holy Communion on the moon Aldrin did it while preparing to walk out of the spacecraft and be the second person to walk on the moon as Aldrin requested for a few moments of silence and for the listeners on ground control to give thanks in their own way Armstrong watched quietly and did not participate NASA kept the entire thing mostly a secret in fear that it would cause the same incident as what happened on the Apollo 8 mission when NASA was sued after astronauts read a passage from The Book of Genesis in time it seems like many began to respect aldrin's decision at the end of the day we're all living on the same Earth looking at the same Moon and blessed by the same sun no matter what you believe in it doesn't change the fact that we're all humans number five the iconic line of Armstrong might have been a misquote as a part of a historic event the first thing that Neil Armstrong uttered on top of lunar soil became one of the most iconic lines in history that's one small step for man one giant leap for mankind Armstrong claimed as he made the first step on the moon at least that was what Watchers on Earth heard according to Armstrong he said something a bit different instead of the famous quote he said that's one small step for a man it's a tiny misquote and it's not that big of a deal but it's true that there is a misquote it's just that the footage people saw didn't clearly pick up the exact words that Armstrong said on the Moon it doesn't really matter what he said but Armstrong wanted to make sure that he got his grammar right by including the indefinite article however the audio recording proved otherwise after a while even Armstrong himself started it out what he actually said fortunately in 2006 a computer programmer named Peter Shan Ford analyzed the recording he found doubt that there was a brief and unintelligible sound between the words for and man so I guess in the end Neil Armstrong said the statement correctly and now it's time for today's topic this is why NASA never returned to the Moon years after the Apollo 11 Mission ufologists and conspiracy theorists on the internet claimed that NASA took more from the Moon than just lunar dust and space rocks they claimed that the administration also recovered the remains of an alien which they continued to hide to this day more than five decades after the moon landing we still haven't found life on our satellite but many believe that the higher ups know something that we don't do you believe that there really is life on the moon or is this nothing but another hoax as always comment down below with the hashtag today's topic and let us know your opinion about what we just showed on screen with that said let's keep things moving number four Neil and Buzz were almost stranded on the moon to this day not a lot of people are aware that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were almost stranded on the moon after the historic moonwalk on July 20th 1969 the two astronauts were preparing to return to command from their lunar module when they suddenly noticed a small switch on the ground it came from the broken tip of a circuit breaker the switch accidentally broke while buzz and Neil were putting on their life support system backpack and that small mishap could have left them stranded on the moon with no way to go back to Earth after all the small circuit breaker switch was needed for takeoff the two astronauts immediately alerted Ground Control about it but they remained calm the solution to their problem was quite unexpected as an engineer Buzz figured out an unlikely way to make the broken circuit breaker work a felt tip pen Buzz pressed the circuit breaker in closed it and made it work they delivered the good news to ground control and everything went smoothly the ascent engine worked and they were blasted off the moon but the challenges safe touchdown on Earth didn't end there after a long flight of 195 hours 18 minutes and 35 seconds Apollo 11 touched down in the Pacific Ocean its Landing was supposed to be documented by the recovery ship USS Hornet but bad weather made the Apollo 11 land 13 miles further than the ship this small change could have ended in a disaster but fortunately buzz and Neil came out safe number three the astronauts were quarantined after reaching home the hardest parts were over but the astronauts couldn't rest just yet before they could go back home and reunite with their families they had to be quarantined although many believe it's quite impossible that there's life on the Moon NASA still wanted to be safe Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were all quarantined for 21 days after their historic Mission To The Moon NASA claimed that this was a necessary action in case the three were exposed to lunar bacteria were rather harmful unknown elements Neil even celebrated his birthday in quarantine NASA made sure to prepare though even though he was under restriction Armstrong celebrated his birthday with festivities he had a surprise birthday party with a cake made by the Luna receiving laboratory at what is now Johnson Space Center meanwhile doctors kept a close eye on the astronauts and experts analyzed all the lunar material they recovered from the Apollo 11 mission after 21 long days the astronauts were finally cleared and were given the ghost signal to return home luckily it seemed like no pathogen or lunar bacteria decided to hitchhike with the astronauts on their way back to Earth I don't think we could handle an outbreak of moon sickness just yet number two are traces on the moon it seems like all of us have the inherent desire to Mark places that we've reached before Travelers often leave behind marks or signs and places they go while some opt to collect souvenirs to remember the place they visited likewise astronauts also leave something behind in all the places they go to in space many think that the only thing Apollo 11 left behind on the moon was the flag of the United States however the mission left more human traces on the moon for one the footprints left behind by Armstrong and Aldrin are still on the moon there's no weather on the satellite after all and there's a chance that the footprints could last almost as long as the moon itself part of the landing module stage was also left behind one of its legs contained a plaque that read here men from the planet Earth First set put on the moon July 1969 A.D we came in peace For All Mankind I guess it was important to clarify that we came in peace just in case extraterrestrial creatures stumble upon it there are also all sorts of tools and trash as left behind on the moon the astronauts of the Apollo 11 Mission had no choice but to discard all of their insignificant belongings to lessen the weight carried by the spacecraft they left behind the Hammers Scoops and human waste 96 bags of it so yes one of the things we left behind on the moon was human excrement number one everyone expected a disaster in the 1960s iPads tablets AIS and all other technology that we have access to today didn't exist that's why many expected the mission to fail after all reaching the moon was such an incredible feat that it almost sounded impossible activists opposed the funding of the mission claiming that it was unrealistic and that the money could be used elsewhere some people didn't Express their negative thoughts so openly but they believed that the mission would be a disaster however the general public wasn't the only one who had doubts about the mission success even president Richard Nixon himself was ready should the Apollo 11 mission fail before the mission reached its conclusion presidential speechwriter William Sapphire prepared a speech for President Nixon it was a statement that should have been said if the mission ended in a catastrophe it involved discussing the risks of space travel and perhaps acknowledging Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins many waited for Apollo 11's takeoff from the Moon with baited breath many believed that the mission was a one-way ticket and that the astronauts wouldn't be able to return back fortunately this space failure speech will forever remain undelivered it might take a while before we embark on another iconic space mission but day by day we continue to learn more about the universe we live in thanks to astronauts and the space probes that roam in space besides we are but a speck of dust in the galaxy and it's far too ambitious for us to know everything there is to know about the universe for now we'll take our time and unravel the Mysteries one step at a time let's keep the discussion going and share your most surprising space fact in the comments down below also check out our other cool stuff showing up on the screen right now and I'll see you in the next video take care everybody