Introduction There are many significant factors which lead to the moon landing. These are some of the important dates and the missions in the space history; first successful orbital launch was of the Soviet unmanned Sputnik 1; mission on 4 October 1957. The satellite is believed to have orbited Earth at a height of about 160 miles; Yuri Gagarin was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. On July 22nd 1969 Neil Armstrong
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assignment I chose to learn more about the Apollo Missions. I have always been very interested in this subject. It blows my mind that someone was smart enough to figure out how to get man on the moon and bring them home safely. The whole point of the Apollo Missions were to safely land man on the moon and bring them home. There were many tests before they actually landed Apollo 11 on the moon. Apollo 7 and 9 were Earth orbiting missions to test the modules. Apollo 8 and 10 tested large amounts of components
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way that the Apollo moon missions have. Neil Armstrong’s famous quote, “That’s one small step for a man. One giant leap for mankind”, is as synonymous with American culture as apple pie or baseball. Armstrong’s moonwalk was the pride of his home country and fascinated people across the globe. This was not the only event from the lunar missions to seize the world’s collective attention. On April 11, 1970 NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) launched the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission
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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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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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Is the Hoax a Bunch of Jokes? Since the amazing Apollo 11 landing on the moon, no one questioned whether it might have been a hoax, until February 15th 2001 when Fox released a documentary called “Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?”. Here, “hoax believers” argue that NASA faked the landing to prove that U.S. technology was greater than that of the Soviets, by not only meeting the standards of the Russians in space travel, but surpassing it, marking a bit of territory on another planet
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The Apollo Program was created on January of 1966, its mission was to send Humankind to the moon for further exploration of our universe. It consisted of 18 missions, 12 crewed missions and 6 under crewed mission and had 6 flights between July 1969 and December 1972 that safely landed 12 humans on the lunar surface and returned to earth. As time has passed from those missions further investigation are being made to modify medical requirements for new vehicles and habitats. The reason for the ongoing
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The Apollo Missions The Apollo missions were not just "one small leap for man, one giant leap for mankind", they were a millstone in the history and capabilities of science, and no manned mission since has rivaled their audacity. The Apollo missions successfully saw human being land on the moon and return back to earth. The scientists and Astronauts that worked on the mission had to answer the questions of how to get to the moon, how to get back, how to do it cost effective, and how to do it safely
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Neil Alden Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio on August 5, 1930 and was the first astronaut that has ever walked on the moon and was apart of the mission of apollo 11. Armstrong was a great influence to america and has redirected the world to the way it is.Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio,on August 5, 1930. He began his NASA career in Ohio.After serving as a naval aviator from 1949 to 1952, Armstrong joined the National Advisory Committee for
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on the mercury seven mission in NASA during April of 1959 and became one of the seven original Mercury astronauts. During that mission all of the men piloted at some point in orbit. Walter was also apart of other missions which included Gemini 6a, Apollo 7, and Sigma 7 throughout his career at NASA. In fact, during 1963, Walter was appointed to pilot the six orbit Sigma 7 mercury flight that was in space for approximately 9-hours and 15 minutes which at that time has been the longest U.S manned flight
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