Devin Lambert
Advanced English
Mr. Swenson
December 17, 2015
Apollo 11 “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” –Neil Armstrong, July 20, 1969. This now famous phrase was uttered by Neil Armstrong, the first human to walk on the moon. Apollo 11, the mission that landed Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon’s surface, was a huge success for the United States of America and all of mankind. Apollo 11 was the result of an amazing advancement in space technology in such a short amount of time. The first American in space, Alan Shepard, flew only 8 years before Apollo 11 as part of the project Mercury. NASA went from first pioneering how to get men into space all the way to landing a man on the moon in under a decade. …show more content…
All three astronauts were veterans of the Mercury and Gemini projects in the years before Apollo. It was NASA’s second all-veteran multi-person crew in history, the first being Apollo 10. Most people do not know that Apollo 11 had a backup crew incase anything happened to the original crew before launch and they had to replaced. The backup crew was Commander James A. Lovell Jr., Command Module Pilot William A. Anders, and Fred W. Haise Jr. All three astronauts were also veterans from the Gemini program. July 16, 1969. Thousands upon thousands of Americans crowded beaches and highways near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Millions of people around the world were watching on their televisions, and President Richard Nixon was watching from the Oval Office in the White …show more content…
“Lunar Module”, http://www.spacefoundation.org/museum/el-pomar-space-gallery-exhibit-artifacts/lunar-module
6. “NASA’s Mighty Saturn V Moon Rocket Explained”, http://www.space.com/18422-apollo-saturn-v-moon-rocket-nasa-infographic.html
7. “The Apollo Program”, http://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/landing-missions/apollo11.cfm
8. “The Space Race”, http://www.history.com/topics/space-race
9. Chen, James L., and Adam Chen. "Apollo 11." How to Find the Apollo Landing Sites. New York: Springer International, 2014. N. pag. Google Scholar. Web. Dec. 2015.
10. Cortright, Edgar M. Apollo Expeditions to the Moon: The NASA History. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2009. Print.
11. Geiss, J., P. Eberhardt, F. Bühler, J. Meister, and P. Signer. "Apollo 11 and 12 Solar Wind Composition Experiments: Fluxes of He and Ne Isotopes." J. Geophys. Res. Journal of Geophysical Research 75.31 (1970): 5972-979. Print
12. Kelly, Thomas J. Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 2001. Google Scholar. Web. Dec. 2015.
13. Pepin, R. O., L. E. Nyquist, Douglas Phinney, and David C. Black. "Rare Gases in Apollo 11 Lunar Material." Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 1 (1970): n. pag. Google Scholar. Web. Dec.
Advanced English
Mr. Swenson
December 17, 2015
Apollo 11 “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” –Neil Armstrong, July 20, 1969. This now famous phrase was uttered by Neil Armstrong, the first human to walk on the moon. Apollo 11, the mission that landed Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon’s surface, was a huge success for the United States of America and all of mankind. Apollo 11 was the result of an amazing advancement in space technology in such a short amount of time. The first American in space, Alan Shepard, flew only 8 years before Apollo 11 as part of the project Mercury. NASA went from first pioneering how to get men into space all the way to landing a man on the moon in under a decade. …show more content…
All three astronauts were veterans of the Mercury and Gemini projects in the years before Apollo. It was NASA’s second all-veteran multi-person crew in history, the first being Apollo 10. Most people do not know that Apollo 11 had a backup crew incase anything happened to the original crew before launch and they had to replaced. The backup crew was Commander James A. Lovell Jr., Command Module Pilot William A. Anders, and Fred W. Haise Jr. All three astronauts were also veterans from the Gemini program. July 16, 1969. Thousands upon thousands of Americans crowded beaches and highways near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Millions of people around the world were watching on their televisions, and President Richard Nixon was watching from the Oval Office in the White …show more content…
“Lunar Module”, http://www.spacefoundation.org/museum/el-pomar-space-gallery-exhibit-artifacts/lunar-module
6. “NASA’s Mighty Saturn V Moon Rocket Explained”, http://www.space.com/18422-apollo-saturn-v-moon-rocket-nasa-infographic.html
7. “The Apollo Program”, http://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/landing-missions/apollo11.cfm
8. “The Space Race”, http://www.history.com/topics/space-race
9. Chen, James L., and Adam Chen. "Apollo 11." How to Find the Apollo Landing Sites. New York: Springer International, 2014. N. pag. Google Scholar. Web. Dec. 2015.
10. Cortright, Edgar M. Apollo Expeditions to the Moon: The NASA History. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2009. Print.
11. Geiss, J., P. Eberhardt, F. Bühler, J. Meister, and P. Signer. "Apollo 11 and 12 Solar Wind Composition Experiments: Fluxes of He and Ne Isotopes." J. Geophys. Res. Journal of Geophysical Research 75.31 (1970): 5972-979. Print
12. Kelly, Thomas J. Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 2001. Google Scholar. Web. Dec. 2015.
13. Pepin, R. O., L. E. Nyquist, Douglas Phinney, and David C. Black. "Rare Gases in Apollo 11 Lunar Material." Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 1 (1970): n. pag. Google Scholar. Web. Dec.