Apollo Mission
There was a great motivation to have a man in space when Disney had a movie called “Man in Space” come out in the early 1950’s. President Eisenhower felt great pressure to have a space program, and would eventually start the Mercury program. With JFK taking office he had many poor public performances and needed to find something to show the USA was still a powerful country. JFK would announce that we would land on the moon within ten years.
With the Apollo missions they were able to detect that the lunar crust is thicker on the far side then on the nearside of the crust. Also that the moon’s center of mass was offset from the middle by about 2.5 km, from what was previous thought. They were able
There was a great motivation to have a man in space when Disney had a movie called “Man in Space” come out in the early 1950’s. President Eisenhower felt great pressure to have a space program, and would eventually start the Mercury program. With JFK taking office he had many poor public performances and needed to find something to show the USA was still a powerful country. JFK would announce that we would land on the moon within ten years.
With the Apollo missions they were able to detect that the lunar crust is thicker on the far side then on the nearside of the crust. Also that the moon’s center of mass was offset from the middle by about 2.5 km, from what was previous thought. They were able