On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon. He didn’t moonwalk alone – ‘Buzz’ Aldrin joined him on the surface – and he didn’t walk far.
After travelling hundreds of thousands of kilometers, the landing crew of the Apollo 11 lunar mission barely covered an area the size of a football pitch.
Many thanks to John Mark Boling for sending in this extremely cool map, found at this page of the NASA history division website.
If ‘football’ makes you think of a game played with helmets, please substitute ’soccer’. And if soccer is too alien for your liking, this map from the same website overlays the ground covered by the Apollo 11 landing team on a baseball diamond…
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Comment by keydetpiper — March 24, 2008 @ 12:07 pm
Now there’s a perspective you don’t usually see.
Here’s hoping that the next live-crew expedition goes much further afield!
Comment by Dwight Williams — March 24, 2008 @ 12:55 pm
This is one cool, geeky map. Thanks.
Comment by secretgeek — March 24, 2008 @ 2:31 pm
This is definitely one of my favourites — what an interesting concept! Great find, John Mark! :)
Comment by Suzie — March 24, 2008 @ 2:38 pm
Re comment #2:
Subsequent missions did go murch farther afield, especially once they had the Lunar Rover vehicles to ride on. The most ambitious was Apollo 17. The crew spent close to 22 hours out on the surface, cruising around some very interesting terrain. It was the first mission to have a scientist astronaut, and I think Harrison Schmidt would happily have stayed on the Moon for good if they had let him.
Comment by Cambias — March 24, 2008 @ 3:08 pm
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By far the most interesting part is the total randomness that seems to have occurred: I suspect there was better organization than it appears, but it’s still an interesting record of what appears to be just random walking.
Comment by Lurker — March 24, 2008 @ 3:50 pm
I have lived in europe and in canada but the baseball version helped me get the limited extent of his moonwalking.
Comment by Philip — March 24, 2008 @ 4:21 pm
Are you sure this isn’t a map of Rio Ferdinand’s movements during a typical England game?
Comment by zythophile — March 24, 2008 @ 5:24 pm
This map makes sense while I still don’t get the offside rule. ;-)
Comment by Anders Dahnielson — March 24, 2008 @ 5:30 pm
@zythophile
Ha ha! I love that looping clearance he’s spanged from the penalty area out by the half-way line!
:-)
Comment by Tom — March 24, 2008 @ 5:58 pm
am i the only one to see that the soccer and baseball maps are DIFERENT? look at the far right!
Comment by tiago — March 24, 2008 @ 8:19 pm
tiago is right! In the baseball version, the Pan 5 cam is shown quite a bit farther away from the LM than in the football (soccer) pitch version, and the path that Armstrong took appears to be more direct. I wonder why the two are different, and which (if either) is correct.
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@ tiago, Greg:
Indeed – shocking! You’d think that with a venture in which precision was so important as a lunar landing, there’d be no room for such mistakes! Unless, of course, the whole thing *was* a fake. And filmed by Stanley Kubrick on the world’s dustiest, most uneven football pitch.
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Wow. It’s simply amazing how small an area of the lunar surface the Apollo 11 crew wandered over. It all looks os big in the photos and film.
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What a great map! If you make the lander my TV and the flag my refrigerator, I think my daily trip around my house would look just like this!
Comment by jimsmuse — March 24, 2008 @ 10:40 pm
I’m so passing this along to my “there was no moon landing” brethren and sisters.
Comment by RoPiNi — March 24, 2008 @ 11:29 pm
I don’t like the thought of all that moon-surface being scarred forever. It’s like all the ATV damage here in wilderness areas on earth.
I think I’ve become a lunar environmentalists!
Comment by WM — March 24, 2008 @ 11:32 pm
I submitted this map, and as a Mets fan eagerly awaiting opening day next week, I gotta say, I’m a little disappointed they didn’t go with the baseball map up top. It’s more visually interesting, and the layout of the lunar map fits nicely on the baseball diamond…
Don’t ask me about the difference between the two maps. I assume an American adapted the football map and probably got confused along the way…who knows.
I do like the idea of Neil Armstrong walking in from the bullpen to pitch an inning or two, though…
Comment by John Mark — March 25, 2008 @ 1:47 am
Most of the action takes place in the left field of the pitch. Looks like the score was a 1-1 draw. Maybe this is only the first half of the game. What happened in the second half?
Comment by andrew — March 25, 2008 @ 3:08 am
Cool post. Thanks for sharing.
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That’s what I picture germs to look like. But also, cool stuff.
Comment by admut239 — March 25, 2008 @ 5:57 am
cool
Comment by ninja91 — March 25, 2008 @ 7:00 am
What a great map this is!
I think I recognize that ground as one I visited for an away match. It was OK really but a bit lacking in atmosphere.
Comment by zencath — March 25, 2008 @ 7:50 am
I was confused by your comment about “football” making us think of a game played wearing helmets because, of course, they were wearing helmets while they played on the moon. However, I think they were playing golf. :)
Excellent addition to your collection of maps. Keep up the good work.
Comment by びっくり — March 25, 2008 @ 9:11 am
That certainly lives up to the title of the blog. It’s as if the astronauts got out of the landing craft and trailed butterscotch angel delight all over the pitch.
I’ve stumbled across a map that may be of interest – I’ll email it to you.
Comment by a very public sociologist — March 25, 2008 @ 12:04 pm
If only Michael Jackson’s moon walk came with a guide or “map” like this one.
http://www.platenuts.com
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One of the coolest maps yet!
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This map is a proof that moon-walkers do not have any purpose with their walking.
I mean the path is showing nothing but random movements.
Comment by Andy Moller — March 25, 2008 @ 9:02 pm
Why do Americans feel compelled to describe everything in terms of football and/or baseball? Is there a valid concern that otherwise people will just not get the point? Or is it that your people can not hold a concept in their heads if it does not relate to sports?
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So there still pushing this moon landing story. No one ever went to the moon. Silly people go back to watching TV.
Comment by Christo — March 25, 2008 @ 9:53 pm
Not to be nitpicky, but I’m pretty sure this was the first moonwalk.
Comment by greg — March 25, 2008 @ 10:08 pm
This is pretty cool. I expected their exploration to be much larger.
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Speaking of golf, perhaps they could have done an overlay with a “mini golf” (aka putt-putt) course, where the LM is positioned where the typical windmill hazard sits :)
Comment by rick jones — March 25, 2008 @ 11:28 pm
@tiago
That was the “pop-fly” video we had recorded in take 1…err…I mean the landing wasn’t faked! uh…er…uh…
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@36. Maybe it just puts it in terms of something you can relate to. If you told me how many square metres (or whatever the American equivalent is, square yards I guess) it was, I wouldn’t know, as my perception of such things is wacked. However, despite being completely sports-challenged (I’m a map geek, remember?) I know how big a baseball diamond is (and I’ve even been on a few, despite years of therapy I haven’t forgotten my humiliations on the diamond yet!) That brings it home for me (in fact, more than the soccer one, as I’ve rarely been on a soccer field.)
I’m sure if they mapped it in regards to your neighbourhood it would have the same effect, but that’d be hard to do (aside from making it a transparency to put anywhere on Google Maps. Hmmmmmmmm … )
Comment by David — March 26, 2008 @ 2:37 am
Must of meen a pretty small sound stage.
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Comment by Telkom — March 26, 2008 @ 9:56 am
Very nice map. Thank you!
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Comment by chang — March 26, 2008 @ 11:03 am
very good map
It sums it up very well. For the people arguing, you could always overprint it with a american football field or a baseball field.
Or even for the softer people, a shopping mall, lol
Comment by compareandy — March 26, 2008 @ 11:17 am
yea right…. haha… like if they ever walk on the moon. no man has walk on the moon even until today. no one can go out side the benalen layer outside earth. just google or you can start here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Moon_Landing_hoax_accusations
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This is a very kewl map. I expect the differences between the baseball map and the soccer one might be that when drawing the baseball one they accidentally straightened out the walk to the panorama station. It’s more likely a long walk like that wasn’t totally straight and there were deviations.
The other is that perhaps the whole map is approximate. Perhaps they don’t have a precise record of where they walked and just pieced together this map based on watchin old footage … so perhaps both are right but both approximate.
As for the randomness … yeah the point of getting to the moon was just that … to put people on the moon. The science could be done more easily and chaper by using robotic probes. So the astronauts spent a lot of time wandering about and saying, “Oh that is kewl”.
Comment by Breen — March 30, 2008 @ 10:50 pm
Where on the map was the famous golf shot taken from?
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aibonlengket @53: “benalen layer”? You mean the Van Allen belts? Thanks for confirming once again the brilliance of moon-hoax believers.
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The map of the moon is one of the most interesting of maps. It is strange that one hasn’t been posted by now. There is not only a Sea of Tranquility, but Seas of Serenity and Fecundity and more.
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Comment by Lucy — May 21, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
“Why do Americans feel compelled to describe everything in terms of football and/or baseball? Is there a valid concern that otherwise people will just not get the point? Or is it that your people can not hold a concept in their heads if it does not relate to sports?”
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Wow. It’s simply amazing how small an area of the lunar surface the Apollo 11 crew wandered over. It all looks os big in the photos and film.
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Coo… just as the reconstruction from the on-the-scene photos at the Microsoft Photosynth site made it look like the landing was actually real (the mountains in the back of the shots actually synth in with proper parallax making them look a couple miles away, as they should; imagine trying to sort that out on-set?)…. this comes along and shows that everything they did could easily have been faked up in a medium sized hangar or movie soundstage. With enough presence of mind to move the background mattes around to simulate the parallax of course.
What we really need is a nice powerful public-access telescope so we can zoooooooom in on the landing location and see what’s left up there, if anything.
Comment by tahrey — January 30, 2009 @ 11:12 am
No wonder the Americans are inept at football, Armstrong went all the way to the penalty box only to be sent back across the field.
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