Apollo Space Mission

Kennedy’s speech was the fuel for the American space race. It was the birth of the Apollo space mission series, and man’s desire to reach the moon. In the year 2017, the takeaway from the several Apollo missions still resonate today. Being the last set of missions to set foot on the moon, the message for the people seemed clear: Hope. Throughout the entirety of the mission, many small flaws were the cause of major incidents. From the beginning, Apollo had a catastrophic start. Three of its original

The Apollo space missions of the 60’s and 70’s mark a time when space was the final frontier and the only destination world leaders had their view set upon. The cold war in full swing, each nation wanted to prove its dominance without total world destruction, was the single greatest driving force in the space race to the moon. But how do we invent, build, and use a set of technologies barely dreamed of by the most elite scientists? Rockets, computers, practical space suits, and a lunar lander/space

Space Exploration: Apollo Missions There was much trial and error while trying to put man on the moon, but it all worked out! The President at the time was John F. Kennedy and he had been promising to put man on the moon and so actions were taken to make this happen. They started small and got bigger, they were able to build moon rockets that could lift tons into space. One of these rockets was called the Saturn V rocket. With these rockets not only could they put man on the moon but also go to other

Apollo 11 was the first space mission that landed humans on the moon. On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin landed on the Moon while Michael Collins stayed in the Command Module. On the surface, Armstrong and Aldrin spent two and a half hours collecting samples, taking pictures, and exploring the surface of the moon. After they got their samples, they placed a three by five feet American flag on the moon, a plaque that said, “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon

Space Exploration: Apollo missions I chose the topic Space Exploration: Apollo missions because I grew up in that era and I live in Huntsville, Alabama where Wernher von Braun worked at the Marshall Space Flight Center and developed the Saturn V rocket that propelled the astronauts to the moon. I was nine years old and remember the excitement of Apollo 11 landing on the moon and Neil Armstrong taking those first steps. I watched it on television as he said those famous words “That’s one small step

Space is something that we humans are never going to be able to comprehend and understand what it is exactly. But knowing that still is not going to stop us from trying to know as much about space as we possibly can. The Apollo missions took that step to reaching greater heights, and landing on our moon to know more about what it is and what is on it. These missions changed our look on space travel and what humans can accomplish if we put our minds to it. The Apollo Program started in 1963 and went

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. I also read that some people thought it was a way to drain the Russian economy during

For my activity a chose “Space Exploration: Apollo Missions”, at the McKay library I found several articles on space exploration I was interested to know how did the Apollo missions got its start. I was seven years old living in Brazil when Neil Armstrong took the first step on an alien surface not on this planet. I read these articles “The link between aerospace industry and NASA during the Apollo years” by Nicolas Turcat, and “Why did the United States retreat from the moon?” by John M. Logsdon

My research is about Apollo missions and how these missions changed space exploration. In the Year 1961 President John F. Kennedy committed the United States, to land men on the moon and bring them back safely to the earth. This challenge had not precedent in the history of humanity, the motivation for such ambitious endeavor according to the NASA was achieving preeminence in space, but the scientific goals were developing a program to explore the moon and man’s capability to work in the lunar environment

the sky. From the first functioning plane, to commercial flight, to space travel, people have been innovating and creating so that one day, we can actually reach the stars. The Wright brothers, Amelia Earhart, the Boeing 747, the Apollo Moon Mission, and the Challenger Space Shuttle were all different people, objects , and events that contributed to people being able to get off the ground, into the air, and even further, into space.     The Wright brothers were two men that greatly contributed to planes