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Astronauts trained for microgravitybywalking “sideways.”
Armstrong practiced taking off and landing in theLunarLanding Training Vehicle in Houston. And, tosimulatewalking in the moon's lower-gravityatmosphere,astronauts were suspended sideways by straps andthenwalked along a tilted wall.
Also to know is, how did they walk on the moon?
Buzz Aldrin descends the steps of the lunarmoduleladder as he becomes the second human being to walk onthemoon. Armstrong and Aldrin at work on themoon.They deployed a U.S. flag and several scienceexperiments,and collected moon rocks. The Apollo astronautsbrought thefirst moon rocks back to Earth.
Also, what did the astronauts do on the way to the moon?
The astronauts rode in the Command Module ontheway to the moon and back. Another spacecraft, theLunarModule, was used for landing on the moon. Thisspacecraftcarried astronauts from orbit around themoon to themoon's surface, then back into orbit. Itcould carry twoastronauts.
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became thefirsthuman to step on the moon. He and Aldrinwalkedaround for three hours. They didexperiments.