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Essay On Apollo 11

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In 1969, the United States were the first to accomplish the feat of successfully landing a man on the moon. In the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin were the first men to land on the moon. After World War II, another war started, which was the Cold War. The Cold War pitted the United States and the Soviet Union against each other, thus leading to the two countries fighting and competing for superiority, which eventually becomes a race for space. In 1959, the Soviet Union launched Luna 2, which was the first space probe to hit the moon. Then, later in 1961, the Soviet Yuri Gagarin was the first person to orbit the Earth in the Votstok 1. Due to these accomplishments by the Soviet Union, President John F. Kennedy boldly promised the public that the …show more content…

The reason for the lack of stars is similar to why we cannot see stars during the daytime—it’s because of the sun’s light. Due to the moon lacking an atmosphere, even during the day the sky is pitch black (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/debunking-myth-that-moon-landing-was-hoax-1457501). Also, an article in The Telegraph, “Apollo 11 Moon landing: conspiracy theories debunked”, the Apollo landing took place during lunar mornings, which resulted in the Sun shining brightly. With the moon’s surface, sun, and the black sky, the stars are simply not bright enough to be captured in photographs. Another reason for the lack of stars is the exposure time settings on the cameras used for the moon landing. The cameras were using fast exposure settings, approximately 1/150th or 1/250th of a second, which would have limited any background light to appear in photographs. (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/photogalleries/apollo-moon-landing-hoax-pictures/photo3.html). Therefore, due to the sun’s light and the camera exposure time, stars could not be shown in the photographs of the moon

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