Space Race By George Flynn

I found a short article written by George J. Flynn that was published in the Salem Press Encyclopedia January of this year. I learned a lot that I never knew before! I knew about the so called “space race” but I never knew how long it actually took to get a man on the moon and how many “stages” and trials it took! Before we actually got someone one the moon NASA spent a lot of time making a rocket that would get our astronauts into space. Then from there they set up what I consider mini big missions to see how things would work when they actually got to the moon. I took 11 Apollo missions till the U.S. landed on the moon. In total there were 17 Apollo missions. One thing that I found interesting from this article was this;

“Technology developed