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happened next after JFK’s announcement? JFK's call for human exploration of the moon turned NASA’s spaceflight efforts toward the goal of a lunar landing. What many thought as an impossible goal was achieved eight years later on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon’s surface. In the case of NASA engineers, many other sub-goals were needed to accomplish prior to succeeding in the lunar landing mission. Some of the sub-goals included the conversion from analog to digital telemetry

MTV stands for music television, but today that title can be misleading. The channel used to be known for playing music videos of many different genres, but today MTV focuses more on reality TV shows. It wasn’t that long ago that MTV was all about the music like its title suggests. In fact during the summer of 2004 I remember watching shows like TRL, and seeing My Chemical Romance’s video for their song “Helena”. More recently I remember turning on the TV before going to school, and seeing the video

What was the motivation that led to the discovery? - The motivation behind the Apollo missions was because of President John F. Kennedy’s statement that America’s goal would be to safely send a man to the moon and back before the decade was up; he stated this on May 25th, 1961. Kennedy announced this because he wanted to prove that America was more than competent to enter into “the space arena as the Soviets.”(Source 1). The Apollo mission consisted of 11 different missions, all with the

Due to ever increasing studies on the subject, circumstances for making the moon have been hypothesized. According to the article three scenarios specifically are being examined, “One argues for a one big splat early in solar-system history; a second envisions a score of lesser blows that built up the Moon over time; and a third suggests water was involved.” Despite what most people think, we still have yet to truly pin point how our moon was formed, there’s even still a lot of discussion on how

For two and a half hours on July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin explored the lunar surface. Millions of citizens of America and from many different countries watched that night at 10:56 PM. (Eastern Daylight Time) It all began with the 3 stages. Stage one is probably the most important stage. I say that because if that stage were to fail the crew would most likely die. Apollo 11 lifted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida at 9:32 AM (Eastern Daylight Time) on July 16th, 1969.The first stage

that the photographic evidence is fake. The astronauts took thousands of pictures, each one perfectly exposed and sharply focused. Not one was badly composed or even blurred. In particular, there is one photo that is often mentioned, the photo of Neil Armstrong putting the American flag into the moon. The strange thing about this photo is that the flag is waving like it’s in the wind. “The obvious problem here is that there’s no air in the moon’s atmosphere, and therefore no wind to cause the

On April of 1961, the Soviet Union successfully launched Yuri Gagarin into space, and they became the first nation to accomplish such a feat. However, just one week after the successful mission was announced, John F. Kennedy sent a letter to his vice president asking him to look into America's space program and to write back what he believed NASA was capable of accomplishing

Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft to orbit the Moon, and on July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong and Air Force Colonel Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin were the first humans to walk on the Moon when their Lunar Excursion Module undocked from the Apollo 11 spacecraft and landed on the Moon (Robinson). The monumental achievement was broadcasted on televisions across the world where about 1/5 of the earth watched Neil Armstrong take the first step and hear his famous line: "That's one small step for man, one

The article Man Takes First Steps on the Moon seeks to inform the audience of the United States’ moon landing. However, it also attempts to aggrandize the event using various occurrences of pathos. For instance, the text uses terms such as “spectacular moment,” “good shape,” “ultra careful,” “dramatic descent,” “spectacular shot,” etc. in order to create a dramatic effect. The article would then explore what other countries thought about the landing, using the despondent Russia to demonstrate feelings

The moon is a strange thing. It has fascinated people is well, as I heard it, from the start of time. The moon had not been for one man, the moon would have not have been explored, that man’s name was Wernher Von Boron. But more of him another time. This essay is all about the phases of the the moon. The moon is just a small plant that rotates around the earth. It is not classified as a planet because it rotates around a larger object that is not a star. It also has no atmosphere. There are eight