On this mission, he performed the first docking of two spacecraft with pilot David Scott. Armstrong’s second and last space flight was as mission commander of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing in July 1969. On this mission, Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar surface and spent two and a half hours exploring while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Command Module. Along with Collins and Aldrin, Armstrong
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The Apollo project was a series of space flights dedicated to getting American astronauts on the moon. It was run by NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Apollo was a follo-up to NASA’s Project Mercury, which had put the first American into orbit around the Earth. Apollo officially began in 1961, after President John F. Kennedy declared that the U.S. would put a man on the moon during the 1960s. To give more background information, the country was involved in the Cold War. In
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When I was four years old, I scared my mother by telling her that one day I was going to be an astronaut. I had stars that glowed in the dark scattered all around my room, I was obsessed with the idea of anything that related to going somewhere new, with the mechanics of how planes could fly, and how something could zoom off into space. I remember my dad waking me up and taking me out to see a meteor shower one cold night, asking what they were and instead of receiving the answer “shooting stars”
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Did you know that the Earth has only one natural satellite? The moon is a celestial object that orbits around the Earth. The moon was named after an ancient and powerful deity, Luna, the Roman goddess of the moon. The moon is an interesting celestial object because of its history, composition, and the research that has been conducted on it. According to Universe Today (2015), the moon was discovered on July 20,1961. Since its discovery, 24 people have visited the moon. The moon is the fifth largest
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out the final seven interesting and straight up shocking facts about NASA below. Number Seven: Moon Flag Mystery. Though most children will be able to tell you that Betsy Ross sewed the American flag, it is still unknown who designed and made the Apollo 11 Moon flag. There are two hypotheses currently in circulation: that the flag is one of three that NASA secretaries purchased on a lunch break, or it was ordered from a government catalog for the whopping price of $5.50. Number Six: Mars Lawsuit
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The trip around the moon was uneventful as it should have been; they were now floating in space equidistance between the moon and Earth. Major Wakowski, Senior Master Sergeant Smith and the other PJ’s had already prepped the drones, loaded them onto launch bay, where a specifically designed launch tube had been designed to fire the drones out into space. Once satisfied with everything, they left the launch bay, Major Wakowski returned to the weapons and security station on the bridge and reported
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Jeremy Kibbey Martin Rottler April 25, 2018 Kibbey 2000 Paper Industry Reading List Assignment “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” Said John F. Kennedy on September 12, 1962 at Rice University. This quote was also the introductory statement to the book “The Privatization of Space Exploration” By Lewis D Solomon, who explains the spirit of America in the 1960s we shifted our thinking from the age of the depression
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Challenger Disaster Research Paper Space Shuttle Challenger was first called as STA-099, and was built as a test vehicle for the space program. But despite its Earth-bound beginnings, STA-099 was destined for space. In 1979, NASA awarded a contract to Rockwell, a space shuttle manufacturer to convert the STA-099 to a space orbiter OV-099. After completion of OV-099, it arrived at the at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida
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My experience as the first space colony recruit was something else. Exploring the dark side of the moon was somewhat frightening. It was a lot darker than what I imagined it to be. The very first day of the exploration the people from the space station gave me a very good flashlight. They told me it could last up to thirty-six hours of lightness. My hopes dropped after The first day I went out with my supposed to be “good flashlight”; it died. The dumb flashlight lasted only like twenty-one minutes
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“Why choose Europa?” a reporter asked me. ”Why not Jupiter or Saturn?” “I want to be the first to explore unknown areas!” “Aren’t you scared about being alone for two years?” “I enjoy being alone. I can observe better.” “Why did NASA chose you?” “I worked as a scientist from mission control.” I boarded the space shuttle. I glanced outside. I would be travelling 390.4 million miles away from home. I would return after researching fifteen years later. Six years later we arrived at Europa. “This
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