I have always been fascinated by the Apollo missions especially Apollo 11 mission, which was the grand landmark of the first humans to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969. Although it is stated by NASA that the primary objective of Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy there was so much more to this incredible experience. Scientific exploration by far was the key motivation that led these astronauts and scientists to discovery more about the moon. Not only this
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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 Event of the Moon Disaster” written by William Safire was prepared for President Nixon to announce to the public just in case something happened to the Apollo 11 mission, which nothing did luckily. The subject of the speech was about Apollo 11 crashing and how Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin shall rest in peace.It also addresses that there is now hope for mankind in their sacrifice and they both were laying down their lives and they died in the search for truth and understanding. The speech
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launching satellites, suborbital and orbital human spaceflight around the Earth, and manned flights to the Moon. It first began with the Soviet Union’s launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite on October 4. 1957, and ended with the Apollo-Soyuz human spaceflight mission in July 1975. The Apollo-Soyuz project symbolized an easing in the relationship between the Soviet Union and the US. The Space Race was originally a missile-based arms race that occurred just after the end of the World War 2. The Space Race all
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Aldrin confirmed to Time magazine that he had recently had a face-lift; he joked that the G-forces he was exposed to in space "caused a sagging jowl that needed some attention. On September 9, 2002, filmmaker Bart Sibrel, a proponent of the Apollo moon landing hoax theory, confronted Aldrin and his stepdaughter outside a Beverly Hills, California hotel. Sibrel said "You're the one who said you walked on the moon, when you didn't" and called Aldrin "a coward, and a liar, and a thief. Aldrin
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An Ocean of Time and Space: Two Final Frontiers “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue…” is the beginning of a poem we have all come to know and recognize as the story of Christopher Columbus’ expedition and their discovery of the Americas. It is the story of a new world, one that we can now call home, and one that continues to thrive as one of the most giving, fruitful, and defining lands on this planet. It is without a doubt the most important and revolutionizing moment in modern history.
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Space Exploration: Apollo missions What was the motivation that led to the discovery? I did not find any specific reasoning for the motivation of the Apollo missions except for the fact that we wanted to see if we could get to the moon. Roger Launius said in his paper, Interpreting the Moon Landings, “They don’t know what to do when they get there.” Launius was talking about the media who was covering the first moon walk. It was exciting at first and then they were bored after the first hour because
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Scientific Concepts, Theories, & Inquiry By: Virginia Ruvalcaba Date: 11/13/2015 Assessment: INT1 Task 1 Solar System • At one point in history people • Through out history our believed the Earth was the understanding of the universe center of the solar system, has greatly evolved. Our creating a Geocentric understanding of the universe universe, meaning that has changed so much because everything else in the universe people were not
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ever to land on the moon. Due to the heavy influence the Apollo 11 mission had, not only on the world, but also on mankind, the year it was finally accomplished is the most important year of life The Apollo 11 mission was so significant in history because it resulted in the United States winning the Cold War. America partook in the Cold War mainly to prevent the spread of communism post World War II. At the time Kennedy proposed the Apollo mission to the nation, the United States was trailing the
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I chose to talk about Space Explorations: Apollo Missions. I chose this because landing on the moon was a wonderful thing we were able to accomplish and I do consider the crew to be a heros. They very easily could have died and I don’t know that a lot of people think about that they were willing to give their lives to be able to move Science forward. In the book “Apollo Moon Mission: The unsung heroes” it said “In 1961, President John F. Kennedy issued a challenge: the United States would land a
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