Apollo Lunar Module

“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…

The Story of Apollo 11 Introduction On May 25, 1969, President John F. Kennedy presented NASA with a challenge. The president’s challenge was to put a man on the moon. With this the United States could be victorious in the space race. Apollo 11 would show that the borders of reality could be pushed, anything was possible. The goals Apollo 11 was much more than just to win the space race. It was to explore and document unknown territory. To accomplish this Apollo 11 had a few goals. Goal one…

Apollo 13: The Story of a Successful Failure in Space Exploration ?Houston, we?ve had a problem.? This iconic phrase was uttered by Jim Lovell after an explosion occurred during his Apollo 13 mission and it appeared that all pre-launch fears that the mission was cursed were coming true. Lovell, Apollo 13?s commander, was not the original commander for the mission. Rather, Lovell was slated to fly Apollo 14 when the original commander of Apollo 13, Alan Shepard, became ill. Not wanting to…

Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The craft was launched on April 11, 1970, at 13:13 CST from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling the Service Module(SM) upon which the Command Module (CM) depended. Despite great hardship caused by limited power, loss of cabin heat, shortage of potable water, and the critical need to…

Flat Earth Essay The idea of a flat earth started in early Egypt and Mesopotamia and it spread around the world to other cultures until it slowly started to fade away. Although we have proof that the earth is an ellipsoid, there are some people that still believe that the earth is flat. Of course, they also have evidence on why they think they are right. Both theories make sense if you don’t think too much about it, they both have proof that seems reasonable. Religion plays a…

patterns follow that of the lunar month. The differences are that the month of March takes about one day longer to reach 100% than that of January, which is still in line with the patterns of the lunar month. The month of January is always slightly ahead of March in the lunar cycle. This data proves that fact of the lunar months length, 29.5 days. For the equations for these two models, they are extremely similar, except for…

Devin Lambert Advanced English Mr. Swenson December 17, 2015 Apollo 11 “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” –Neil Armstrong, July 20, 1969. This now famous phrase was uttered by Neil Armstrong, the first human to walk on the moon. Apollo 11, the mission that landed Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon’s surface, was a huge success for the United States of America and all of mankind. Apollo 11 was the result of an amazing advancement in space technology in such a…

influence and primary objective of this mission was created by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961. The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The mission carried three astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, to the Moon. The first steps on the Moon were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, with Michael Collins commanding the module. The Apollo 11, the first manned Moon landing, had a significant effect on America, changing its culture…

beyond as past Apollo missions were the plans for the Apollo 13 mission, but with a sudden change of plans they only had one mission left, get back home safe and alive. They launched on April 11, 1970, orbiting around the moon and back to earth for five days, twenty-two hours, fifty-four minutes, and forty-one seconds, and landed back to Earth in the Pacific Ocean on April 17 1970. On the mission, the crew composed of James A. Lovell Jr. as commander, Charles M. Duke Jr. as Lunar Module Pilot,…

first lunar walk happened forever immortalized in history as the first step into the space era. Thanks to this mission we have in fact gained quiet a bit. To completely understand just exactly what we had gained and would gain we must understand the circumstances behind the whole mission. The Apollo missions were a series of mission with the end goal mission to land humans on the Moon and then safely return them back to Earth. There were six lunar missions in total: Apollo 8, Apollo 10, Apollo…