Apollo 8 was the first mission to bring humans to the moon. It lifted off on December 21, 1968. It carried <em>Frank Borman, Jim Lovell </em>and<em> Bill Anders</em>.
The spacecraft went to the moon, orbited the moon without landing, and returned to Earth.
Neil Armstrong was, of course, the first human to STEP on the moon. But several other people TRAVELED TO THE MOON before he did.
There is more damage and more deaths from earthquakes in other parts of the world primarily because of buildings that are poorly designed and constructed for earthquake regions, and population density.
It is a book written by Galileo Galilei comparing the Nicolaus Copernicus, published in 1632 aa his dialogue if the two chief world systems.
As in the Copernican system of the universe the earth and the other planets orbit around the sun and while in the Ptolemaic system all orbited around the earth. Simplicio which is a dedicated follower of Ptolemy and Aristotle then presented his traditional simple views.
Being a geocentric philosopher he opposed the heliocentric which proposed the sun in the center.
