Apollo Space Mission

On the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong said, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” He was the first astronaut to walk on the moon and this event was a significant point in history for space exploration. Now from the success of the Apollo 11 mission, astronauts will travel to Mars during the 2030’s and I want to take part in the excursion to the Red Planet. In the past couple of years, I have been obtaining knowledge about the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the exploration to Mars. Ever since I was younger, I enjoyed spending time at night stargazing with friends and family as well as watching Star Wars, Star Trek, and other science fiction movies. Over the years my fascination for outer space

“Nothing since Apollo has come close to the excitement that was generated by those astronauts: Armstrong, Aldrin, and the ten others who followed them”. (“Apollo”). Being launched on the fourteenth of July in the year 1969, Apollo 11 had created a whole new period of space exploration and technology, defeating the Soviets in the Space Race, and bringing the end of the Cold War closer and to our favor. The Apollo 11 Mission had taken a major part in forming what is now today’s science, technology, and society.

I chose to do the Apollo missions. The Apollo missions we all named the same but with different numbers. Like Apollo 7 or Apollo 16. But there was no real number. The missions to the moon weren't all the same. Some of the missions that went up to the moon were caring people on board and some of the missions were just to get a unmanned aircraft into space to mostly deliver supplies that they might need on the moon. The Apollo 8 was the one that landed successfully onto the moon. These missions wouldn’t have happened without a lot of people. A lot of people just look at the people that went into space and think “wow they did something really cool” but it also takes a lot of work coming from the people that are down below. The people that are

Apollo 13 was the 7th mission in the American Apollo Space Program and launched on April 11, 1970. Apollo 13 was the third mission that had planned to land on the moon and its location was in the Fra Mauro crater. However, two days into the flight, an oxygen tank exploded forcing the crew to orbit the moon without landing and return to earth.

Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin were the three people sent into space for the Apollo 11 space mission, the very first moon landing. With millions of people watching, a United States astronaut was televised, setting foot on the moon for the very first time. Some people thought that the moon landing was faked by the U.S.’s desire to beat the union in the Space Race. But facts made by these theories were mere speculation. The moon landing was the only hope for improvement for the future to others. Even through all the wreckage in the world, the Space Race, the Cold war, even the Vietnam war, we managed to get to the moon, which was

I choose for my discovery one of the Apollo space missions. The one mission that I have a keen interest in has been the Apollo 11 Mission. Apollo 11 was one of NASA’s mission to get 12 astronauts in space and to land on the moon. The Mission control team did many of the behind-the-scenes. Many of the team members were young so they were able to bring some new ideas for the program. One mission control engineer gave this quote about the young team, “Space was such a new thing that they were not willing to risk their careers on space, so we were forced to have a relatively young team. By Apollo, we had to bring in young people because the people, who did [the earlier] Gemini [space program] were technical dinosaurs by that time." (Weiss).

The Apollo Mission started out as an idea that John F. Kennedy came up with. He said that he would send people to the moon and they would return to Earth safely. There were many things that would have to go into this mission. For example, what was the safest way to get the astronauts to the moon? How long would it take? What do we need to do to prepare for the moon landing? All of these questions played a part in the Apollo mission.

One of NASA’s biggest mission was Apollo 11 and the objective was to land on the moon. The crew consisted of Neil Armstrong the commander, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. the Lunar Module Pilot, and Michael Collins the Command Module Pilot. The launch was scheduled to be on July 16, 1969 at nine o’clock in the morning. About four days later the inspirational quote “...one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” said by Neil Armstrong, was the first words spoken on the surface of the moon. About 600 million people from all over the world tuned in to watch the moon landing and watch as Armstrong took the first steps on the moon. They spent only one day on the moon, however in that one day they achieved something that no other man has done. They landed in the pacific ocean on July 24 and were greeted as heroes. Although the mission was eight days long it inspired many other mission by NASA.

“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Or was it? For decades skeptics have been conjuring up hundreds of theories to try and prove that on July 20, 1969, man did in fact, not step foot on the surface of the moon. Could what is perhaps the United States’ greatest individual achievement be nothing but some Hollywood antics? Disbelievers of the amazing Apollo 11 feat have been voicing their opinion on the topic ever since the original photos and videos were publicly released nearly half a century ago. Many people believe that the famous scenes of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin bounding across the “moon’s” surface were actually just staged videos shot on a Hollywood movie set. Questions have arisen such as how was the flag that Armstrong and Aldrin planted blowing in the wind if there is no wind in space? Why is there what appears to be multiple light sources on the surface of the moon casting shadows in several different directions? Why is there clearly no visible stars in a picture taken from the surface of the moon? One curious skeptic explains his opinions about why man did not set foot on the moon and exposes a multitude of NASA mistakes.

I chose to research the Apollo Missions and how science’s approach changed over the course of time to successfully get a man to the moon and the missions that followed. I have always been interested in space and the moon so this was an interesting project to me to see how NASA actually managed to get someone to the moon.

July 16, 1969, three American astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin - took their seats in a spaceship "Apollo 11". They had a key task: to land on the moon and return to Earth. Then came the long-awaited moment. At 16 hours 32 minutes’ giant booster "Saturn 5", enveloped in smoke and flames, broke away from the launch platform and rapidly began to move away, taking with them three earthlings. They had to make the most difficult flight, the likes of which has not yet happened.

For this week's enrich submission, I chose to do my research on Space Exploration: Apollo Missions. From my selected article, Space Exploration, I read that the motivation that led to this discovery was how people dreamed of spaceflight for millennia before it even became reality. There is evidence from as early as 2D of scientist and famous men telling of flying or having dreams of voyaging to the moon. That being said, space exploration has ALWAYS been a topic filled with curiosity. People have always wanted to know about space. One of the many questions people had and wondered was if the Earth was in the center of the solar system or not. And for several years, many believed this theory. It wasn't until 1,400 years later that that theory

I have always been fascinated about outer space since my child hood years. From the way gravity changes to the mazing sinary. I chose “ space explorations: Apollo mission” and found an article called “ Cassini Spacecraft's Final Year at Saturn Is Like a 'Brand-New Mission'. The spacecraft called Cassini had been lunched in 1997 and reached saturn in 2004. Through out his mission “ it has revealed subsurface ocean on saturns moon, examined methane lakes, and seas of the moon.”

I chose the topic of the Space Exploration: Apollo missions. This has always interested me and I found that it was a lot more than just space exploration. This was a political race that was between the United States and Soviet Union “Russia”. I was shocked to find out that this was a controversial topic, because many people believe that we never made it in space and others think that the moon landing was a hoax.

As it is already known, Dawn is what is known as a space probe that was initially launched by NASA in 2007 during the month of September with the objective of being able to study two protoplanets of the asteroid belt out of three that are known. Those protoplanets are known as Vesta and Ceres. It is orbiting currently its second target, Ceres, which is a dwarf planet. Dawn is the very first spacecraft to orbit two different extraterrestrial bodies, the very first spacecraft to go to either Ceres or Vesta, and also the very first in being able to visit a type of dwarf planet, arriving on Ceres in the year 2015 on the month of March, just a few months prior to New Horizons flying by Pluto on the month of July within the same year in 2015.