Purpose Of The Apollo 11 Mission

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The topic that I chose to research about was the Apollo 11 mission. It was fascinating to know that something like landing on the moon could actually happen. In my research I learned that this mission all came about because President John. F. Kennedy had set a goal to send men to the moon and then to return to Earth. Along with that, they also had several duties that they were to perform while in space, including: taking pictures of the surface of the moon, collecting moon deposits and videoing themselves on the moon. I believe that the real intention of this mission and for most of the Apollo missions was to see if it was really possible to go into space and once they did that, was it possible to land on another planet or in this case the

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