Apollo

The photographs provided by NASA of the Apollo-11 landing shows many different and perhaps unusual concepts. One of these which conspiracy theorists argue is that the shadows created by various objects in the photo (astronauts and rocks) fail to be parallel. This leads to the argument that there…

computer was trying to do too many things at once. (Cite) At 11 p.m., 11:56 to be exact, Lance Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon. They safely join Collins and head back towards Earth. They arrived back at Earth on July 24. The Apollo 11 mission took 36 minutes longer than originally planned. In the next three and half years there were 10 more astronauts to follow in their footsteps. After all of the success for the Americans in space has there been any benefits or…

Armstrong becoming the first man to walk on the moon was actually a hoax set up by NASA. In photographs, it looks to be seen that the American flag is blowing in the breeze even though there is no atmosphere along with the shadows do not match up. Where Apollo 11 landed, there also is no crater, there are too many light sources and the Van Allen radiation belt should have cooked the astronauts, unexplained objects, slow motion walking, and the hidden cables, lack of starts the “c” rock and the…

trumpeted Gagarin's accomplishment. Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space less than a month later. The first cooperative human space flight project between the United States and the Soviet Union took place in 1975. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was designed to test the compatibility of rendezvous and docking systems for American and Soviet spacecraft and to open the way for future joint manned flights.…

Analysis Midterm From the independence of Great Britain, to a world of hyper-connectivity, the 1969 Apollo 11 mission was one of mankind’s most ebullient moments in history. First we have The Times of London, with its article Man Takes First Steps on the Moon. The times is a highly recognized newspaper from all over the world. No wonder people believe its credibility. Next is William Safire’s speech called In Event of Moon Disaster that would’ve been given by President Nixon in an event of a…

The Gemini Program was an early NASA human spaceflight program that helped NASA get ready for the Apollo moon landings. Because of the Geminis purpose it has been nicknamed “The Bridge to the Moon.” Ten crews flew missions on the two-man Gemini spacecraft. The Gemini missions were flown in 1965 and 1966. They flew between the Mercury and Apollo programs. All together there are 12 Gemini missions between April of 1965 and November of 1966. The Gemini program was managed by the Manned Spacecraft…

be entertaining, but a learning experience as well. Unless if based on a conspiracy theory, then all bets are off. And this is where the film, Moonwalkers, comes in. The premise being that the American Government had a Plan B just in case the 1969 Apollo Eleven mission was not successful landing on the Earth's only natural satellite. Debuted in 2015, and released to the masses in the beginning of 2016, the indie adult comedy 'Moonwalkers' which goes bank in…

famous, everlasting words of Neil Armstrong would create an era of fevered space exploration and excitement that will be unparalleled in the century to come. As moon missions became an almost routine event through the Apollo missions, this fevered excitement began to decay until the Apollo missions were terminated and funding for space exploration became almost non-existent. It is now our generation's turn to rekindled the burning embers of our everlasting adventurous instincts to turn the next…

Kent Rominger is a former American astronaut and a former captain in the Navy. He was born and raised in Del Norte, Colorado. Kent Rominger, has been on 5 space missions, some of which include, STS-100, STS-80, and STS-73. His first spaceflight, was as the pilot of STS-73 which launched on October 20, 1995. The STS-73 was the second United States Microgravity Laboratory mission which focused on biotechnology, materials science, combustion science, and many other scientific experiments. He…

ability to change orbit and flight path were an important part of later missions. This mission made him the first person in NASA to be in space twice. Grissom also invented the multi-axis translation thruster controller which was used to help push the Apollo and Gemini spacecrafts in the…