There are a ton of missions, people and projects that played a major contribution in the Space shuttle program. One of the programs that I think contributed the most are the Apollo programs which are also known as project Apollo. It was in fact not the first program to attempt human spaceflight by NASA but the third and accomplished many goals between the 1960’s and 1970’s. There is one Apollo mission though that really catches my eye and makes me believe that this is the mission that made the most contribution, and that is Apollo 11. This mission’s goal was to safely send man to the moon, land to collect samples and information and safely return back to earth. It played a major factor in not only the scientific aspect of it, but it also
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The Apollo program was a program carried out by NASA in the early 1960’s. The program was a follow-up to project Mercury, but this time around instead of just carrying one astronaut it would carry up to three. Some of the goals of the program were to establish the technology to meet other national interests in space, achieve preeminence in space for the United States, carry out a program of scientific exploration of the mon and develop man’s capability to work in the lunar environment. There were a total of eleven spaceflights throughout the entire Apollo program. The first four flights were used to test the equipment that was to be used throughout the Apollo program with the six other flights were used to land on the moon. The first flight took place in the year 1968 with the last flight taking place in 1972. Through the years of all of this planning and practicing of putting man on the moon, a total of twelve men walked the moon and conducted scientific …show more content…
Although this mission was not the first one to conduct worldwide transmission, it was one of the first cameras to do so in color. The original camera that was to go to the moon on Apollo 11 was only supposed to shoot in black and white at maybe ten frames a second. The camera that went up with Apollo 11 was a color camera that shot with about twenty five to thirty frames per second. This was a way to show the world that it was possible to put a man on the moon and that the United States would be the first country to do so. It showed that the United States was capable of doing what President Kennedy’s goal was and that the United States would lead in the space
The Apollo program was a program carried out by NASA in the early 1960’s. The program was a follow-up to project Mercury, but this time around instead of just carrying one astronaut it would carry up to three. Some of the goals of the program were to establish the technology to meet other national interests in space, achieve preeminence in space for the United States, carry out a program of scientific exploration of the mon and develop man’s capability to work in the lunar environment. There were a total of eleven spaceflights throughout the entire Apollo program. The first four flights were used to test the equipment that was to be used throughout the Apollo program with the six other flights were used to land on the moon. The first flight took place in the year 1968 with the last flight taking place in 1972. Through the years of all of this planning and practicing of putting man on the moon, a total of twelve men walked the moon and conducted scientific …show more content…
Although this mission was not the first one to conduct worldwide transmission, it was one of the first cameras to do so in color. The original camera that was to go to the moon on Apollo 11 was only supposed to shoot in black and white at maybe ten frames a second. The camera that went up with Apollo 11 was a color camera that shot with about twenty five to thirty frames per second. This was a way to show the world that it was possible to put a man on the moon and that the United States would be the first country to do so. It showed that the United States was capable of doing what President Kennedy’s goal was and that the United States would lead in the space