“Houston, we have lift off”
For thousands of years people have wondered what is beyond our planet in the night sky. Is it just stars? Are there planets outside of our home, Earth? The answer is yes not only are there planets, but moons, stars, galaxies and other solar systems. Thanks to great astronomers such as Galileo, Copernicus , Johannes Kepler, Edwin Hubble and many other great minds we have made these ground-breaking discoveries. Not until the latter half of the 20th century did we discover we could not only observe this great mystery that is space from earth but maybe we could actually explore it for ourselves.
July 29, 1958, the founding of NASA (The National Aeronautics and Space Administration), Why was this organization created you might ask? After the Soviet space program’s launch of the first artificial satellite (Sputnik 1) in 1957 the United States realized there own lacking space efforts. So, Dwight D. Eisenhower took immediate action and created NASA. Although the Soviet Union did beat the U.S. into space that was not going to stop us. In May 5, 1961 John F. Kennedy embarrassed by this defeat launched a new program that would beat the Soviet Union in this “space race”. He planned to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade.
In 1969 the day had finally come that America’s space program …show more content…
Was the moon landing faked? According to Science editor of the telegraph magazine if it were faked it would have been discovered within 3 to 4 years. She concludes that “ for a plot to last five years the maximum number of plotters turned out to be 2,521 and to keep a scheme operating undetected for more than a decade, fewer than 1,000 people could be involved. while a century-long deception had to include fewer than 125 collaborators.” If if it was a hoax the estimated amount of people who would have worked on such an ordeal would be upwards of
For thousands of years people have wondered what is beyond our planet in the night sky. Is it just stars? Are there planets outside of our home, Earth? The answer is yes not only are there planets, but moons, stars, galaxies and other solar systems. Thanks to great astronomers such as Galileo, Copernicus , Johannes Kepler, Edwin Hubble and many other great minds we have made these ground-breaking discoveries. Not until the latter half of the 20th century did we discover we could not only observe this great mystery that is space from earth but maybe we could actually explore it for ourselves.
July 29, 1958, the founding of NASA (The National Aeronautics and Space Administration), Why was this organization created you might ask? After the Soviet space program’s launch of the first artificial satellite (Sputnik 1) in 1957 the United States realized there own lacking space efforts. So, Dwight D. Eisenhower took immediate action and created NASA. Although the Soviet Union did beat the U.S. into space that was not going to stop us. In May 5, 1961 John F. Kennedy embarrassed by this defeat launched a new program that would beat the Soviet Union in this “space race”. He planned to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade.
In 1969 the day had finally come that America’s space program …show more content…
Was the moon landing faked? According to Science editor of the telegraph magazine if it were faked it would have been discovered within 3 to 4 years. She concludes that “ for a plot to last five years the maximum number of plotters turned out to be 2,521 and to keep a scheme operating undetected for more than a decade, fewer than 1,000 people could be involved. while a century-long deception had to include fewer than 125 collaborators.” If if it was a hoax the estimated amount of people who would have worked on such an ordeal would be upwards of