Apollo

46th Anniversary of Apollo 7 Today marks the 46th anniversary of Apollo 7. On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. Fellow astronauts, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Lt. Col. Michael Collins, accompanied Armstrong. In 1961, during the Cold War, President John F. Kennedy addressed Congress to share his vision of space exploration for the United States. At that point the Soviet Union had outperformed U.S. in this category. One Small Step for Man Kind 1 billion…

hence periods like the Renaissance, a rebirth of an older era of art. However this retrospective obsession with art can meddle up an art history timeline if a statue is not properly dated to the correct era. This is case the regarding the Piombino Apollo, a statue found at sea in 1832 with a complex history of study where it eventually made its way to the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. The statue looks extremely archaic, like a kouros, but some more advanced stylistic evidence on the statue…

“That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” -Neil Armstrong Apollo 11 was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida piloted by crew members, Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins. Their destination: Earth's moon, to collect samples and bring them back to Earth for testing. Apollo 11, the first moon landing, caused a technological revolution affecting the United States military, schools, and inventions. John F Kennedy initiated the United States…

of the Apollo 11 mission. The Apollo 11 is one of the most memorable missions to this day. There was five more successful lunar landing missions to follow. On the Apollo 13, crew members had to improvise after oxygen tanks burst halfway to the moon. The Apollo 17 was the final Apollo mission. This concluded a scientific and engineering program, which was successful. The Soviet Union and NASA teamed up and accomplished the first international human spaceflight in 1975. It was called the…

Have you ever been going 25,000 mph, fourteen times the speed of a bullet? Apollo 13 was just any old Apollo mission a least to the American people. Apollo 13 was a little mission that was to go to the moon and collect rocks that were fourteen billion years old. The oxygen tank exploded two days into their mission. It exploded because of faulty wiring that is why their mission was a fail. One reason that their mission was a fail was they couldn’t even compete their job. Their job was to…

Apollo 13 Maria Awad Mr. Estes American History II, D-block 16 March 2016 On April 11, 1970, the spacecraft, Apollo 13 was launched to go to the moon. Its journey lasted about five days, 22 hours, 54 minutes and 41 seconds and traveled 622,268 miles. It landed April 17, 1970 in the Pacific Ocean (Chaikin, Kohl, and Bean 56). The spacecraft’s crew consisted of: James A. Lovell Jr. as the Commander, Fred W. Haise Jr. as the Lunar Module Pilot, and John L. Swigert Jr. as the Command Module…

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 11, Apollo 12, Apollo 13, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, Apollo…

Thinking of NASA’s greatest accomplishments in the past, and the Apollo 11 mission might come up. Other countries worked diligently to reach the same accomplishment that NASA had; but the race to the moon was ultimately reached by the United States. Which makes one of the reasons why the United States is the leader in space exploration. it is because of NASA’s projects, advancements, and accomplishments, NASA was the catalyst that allowed the United States to be the leader in space…

On the 20th of July 1969, millions of people across the world watched eagerly as the Apollo 11 landed successfully on the moon and Neil Armstrong officially became the first man ever to step onto the celestial body. It was a moment of great victory for the U.S. It was a moment which would be remembered in scientific history for a long time: but is it remembered for the right reasons? There are many people that believe that the landing of 1969 was a hoax. They believe that it was filmed in a…

On July 20, 1969 millions of Americans watched on a televised broadcast as Neil Armstrong going down in history as the first human being to ever step foot on the moon. Apollo 11 was a big accomplishment for America as a nation, yet there are accusations about it being staged in order to win the space race against Russia. Apollo 11 was a three astronaut mission. Neil A. Armstrong, whom was born Aug. 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio, became interested in flight while still a child. in 1950 he flew…