The Apollo missions were influential for all of mankind in many ways. During the Cold War, an arms race escalated the height of space exploration, and raised our awareness through large appropriated tax dollars towards research and development of spaceflight, and humanity as a whole as a species who transverses among the galaxy. Originally, the Apollo program was partly a political ploy to bankrupt the Soviet Union, it provided modern astrophysicists many answers to questions. We needed to know if humans could survive spaceflight and the rigors of space. Relying on the works of many great minds from Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, all the way back to Aristotle’s perception of a vacuum, the space race has and always will be the pinnacle of
