Apollo program

In the year 3036, it changed the face of mankind as we know it. It all started with humans and their eagerness to travel to space for vacations, after all it did only take two hours to get there and view all the planets was a fun experience to do. The human race tried to take over space as they’ve done before in Planet Pluto to be used for humans’ waste land. Little did they know greater intelligence were coming there way to take over their servants; but they did not have clue that the…

On September 19, 1783, people gathered around Versailles. They eagerly awaited the exciting demonstration: the first hot air balloon flight with animals inside. They filled the balloon with hot air while the mesmerized people waited patiently. Flight was a foreign concept to them and people were skeptical if land animals could survive the flight. After they fastened basket on the bottom, they put a rooster, duck, and sheep into it. The flight began and astronomers reported it got up to 1600 feet…

stop America who put the first man on the moon in1969. Shortly after Gagarins success, President Kennedy asked his top advisors “what can we do to beat these guys” the conferred for a few weeks and came up with a moon landing(Wall). By the end of Apollo, the United States had spent 25 billion dollars, more than 100 billion dollars in today’s…

One small step for man , and one giant leap for mankind. -Neil Armstrong , the first man to walk on the moon said.John F. Kennedy was the man who encouraged people to fly to the moon and he was passionate about space exploration. But does that mean that space exploration is worth the cost? Yes Space exploration is worth the cost but also for many other reasons for example; It will expand our knowledge , it could find cures to certain disabilities in the world , there would be thousands of job…

Wernher von Braun’s Journey to Space This world had a great awakening when Wernher von Braun came forth into it. He has broughten very many accomplishments to the United States of America. Though he was a secret Nazi, he created the V-2 rocket, started a family in America, and made many creations throughout his life time. He also helped send the first man to the moon with one of his great creations. War does not define who is right, war simply defines who is left. Yet in this case, Wernher…

many of his stated space policy goals to help space exploration. Nearly $60 in funding is approved to be spent, which this will be used across three years. The 2011 budget law, which was passed in April 2011, officially terminated the Constellation program. The acceptance of this budget makes an open attempt to allow NASA to start working on the new more important initiatives. In September 2011, details were announced of the Space Launch System, a Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicle being developed…

In 1958, Dwight D. Eisenhower was president. We were in the middle of the Vietnam War. We still only had one type of television. It was the box T.V. Our radio system was a little box radio with a long antenna. Fashion for ladies in 1958 was big poofy dresses and curled up hair. Red lipstick and thick eyeliner. Men would wear dress pants. Dress shirts under their buttoned up coats and bow ties. Always dress shoes, never anything else. Fedoras as well. In 1958 they launched spacecrafts into space.…

Lunar 8 was a lunar probe part of the lunar program as you know it was launched on December 3, 1965 with the objective of achieving a soft landing on the Moon but it really wasn’t soft at all. Actually the retrorocket was launched too late and suffered a hard impact on the lunar surface on the “Oceanus Procellarum” (Ocean of storms) the spacecraft spun , losing altitude control and preventing the hard impact. The mission only lasted for only three days not so long , but the mission did…

One of the very important scientific breakthroughs in history was landing on the moon, or the mission known as Apollo 11. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the two of the three people on this mission it took three days from lift off to landing on the moon. It was the first mission that put a man on the moon but was not the last. There has been twelve people who have landed on the moon including Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. All astronauts who have been on a lunar landing mission have been…

Ambrose. It was written by Bart Howard in 1954 but was made famous by Frank Sinatra a decade later. Frank Sinatra was an incredibly talented singer and actor from the 1960s. The recording that Frank Sinatra made was closely associated with the Apollo missions to the moon. Buzz Aldrin brought a copy of it with him to the moon. It was the first song to be played in orbit around the moon and on the moon when Buzz Aldrin played it on a cassette player. The song also has been in the 2014 remake…