The Moon and Beyond, America’s pursuit of new frontiers
The moon and stars have pondered men for thousands of years, but all it took were three American astronauts to captivate every person not just in America, but also throughout the world in July of 1969. But how did America get that far and what did Americans think of NASA and the government in its attempt to send a man beyond our home on planet Earth. Man had never ventured out into our solar system up until the Apollo program took flight in the late 1960’s and most would argue that this would not have been possible without John F. Kennedy and his bold statement in 1962 stating that “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…” (JFK's 'Moon Speech Still Resonates 50 Years Later). These words would resonate throughout America, and help spark a curiosity across children and adults alike, seeming to promise a man on the moon by 1970, and few could have imagined that we could have done that, and flown probes out of our solar system in the years to come. Surprisingly …show more content…
The organization, short for National Aeronautics and Space Administration, got to work immediately, and the early highlights as mentioned earlier included the first satellite Explorer I, and Alan Shepard being the first American in space (NASA Created). With the creation of NASA this officially started the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, one thing was for sure though, NASA had some tricks up its sleeve and was determined, as JFK would remark (JFK's 'Moon Speech Still Resonates 50 Years Later) to get a man on the moon before the end of the decade. The first step to accomplishing this was getting the Gemini program underway, which was the stepping-stone to Apollo (What Was the Gemini
The moon and stars have pondered men for thousands of years, but all it took were three American astronauts to captivate every person not just in America, but also throughout the world in July of 1969. But how did America get that far and what did Americans think of NASA and the government in its attempt to send a man beyond our home on planet Earth. Man had never ventured out into our solar system up until the Apollo program took flight in the late 1960’s and most would argue that this would not have been possible without John F. Kennedy and his bold statement in 1962 stating that “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…” (JFK's 'Moon Speech Still Resonates 50 Years Later). These words would resonate throughout America, and help spark a curiosity across children and adults alike, seeming to promise a man on the moon by 1970, and few could have imagined that we could have done that, and flown probes out of our solar system in the years to come. Surprisingly …show more content…
The organization, short for National Aeronautics and Space Administration, got to work immediately, and the early highlights as mentioned earlier included the first satellite Explorer I, and Alan Shepard being the first American in space (NASA Created). With the creation of NASA this officially started the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, one thing was for sure though, NASA had some tricks up its sleeve and was determined, as JFK would remark (JFK's 'Moon Speech Still Resonates 50 Years Later) to get a man on the moon before the end of the decade. The first step to accomplishing this was getting the Gemini program underway, which was the stepping-stone to Apollo (What Was the Gemini