Enduring conspiracy theories aside‚ the 1969 moon landing (above) was a rousing success for the government space program known as NASA. After a decade-long space race‚ during which it seemed to all observers that the Soviets had the edge‚ the U.S. landed Apollo 11–carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin–at the Sea of Tranquility on July 20‚ 1969. Nixon was president‚ the Vietnam War and its opposition raged‚ and Leonid Brezhnev helmed a stagnant Soviet empire. On the great list of Cold War what-ifs‚
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Entering the Frontier Flight Museum was an educational‚ historical experience dating back to the first airplane in 1903 to present day airplanes. It included the history of combat airplanes‚ commercial airplanes‚ corporate and private airplanes. Walking into the main Richard W. Cree Exhibit Gallery‚ the room was divided into different labeled galleries with interesting exhibits to support each gallery. The first exhibit was the “Early Flyers” exhibit of a replica wooded hanger with the tools used
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4 fell into orbit and became the first satellite to orbit the sun. May 25‚ 1961 president J.F.K thought of a new idea for NASA. To send a man to the moon. It started the agency’s Apollo program. The on July 20‚ 1969‚ when Neil Armstrong’s took the first leap off the Apollo 11. Ever since NASA’s founding in 1958‚ every president from has left his mark in the space program. NASA is a political arm of any administration. Lance Armstrong was the first man
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in today’s workplace. As film is one of the more engaging mediums‚ this allows for abstract theories to be presented visually and in a dramatic manner. The film Apollo 13 was selected to showcase such models including the communication process model‚ types of decision making models‚ and the five-stage model of team development. Apollo 13 chronicles the events of the 1971 lunar mission involving three astronauts; Jim Lovell‚ Fred Haise‚ and Jack Swigert. After a successful launch‚ a critical error
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the three-man flight‚ and the first space-walk. In 1962‚ John Glenn was their first astronaut to orbit the Earth in the Apollo. He accomplished three orbits around earth before returning. The US wasn’t going to give up this battle that easy. So‚ they set their eyes on the knock-out blow‚ for the Moon. The Apollo program will provide the edge they need. On July 20‚ 1969‚ the Apollo 11 landed on the Moon with two astronauts onboard. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had reached and walked on the surface
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Newton’s law) and law of inertia (1st Newton’s law)‚ it continued to ripple” (NASA This evidence in the moonlanding hoax is misleading and inaccurate. Perhaps the oldest and most favorite argument is the absence of stars in the background of any Apollo photographs on
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The Space Race The space race began in 1957 after the cold war. The Soviet Union and The United States of America were fighting for superiority in the cold war. They thought that the first in space would be more superior. This was only the beginning of the race for space. The First Satellites After Russia heard rumors that the U.S. was planning on launching a satellite into space‚ they hurried and built Sputnik 1‚ the first satellite in space on October 4‚ 1957. Sputnik one was about the size of
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United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election‚ held on Tuesday‚ November 5‚ 1968. Moon Shot On July 21‚ 1969‚ President Nixon spoke from the Oval Office to Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin at the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon. Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon‚ Americans Neil Armstrong and Woodstock A village in New York state‚ where some 400‚000 young people assembled in 1969 for a rock music
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Wernher von Braun paper Wernher von Braun was born in Wirsitz‚ Germany‚ on March 23‚ 1912. His father was Minister of Agriculture in the Weimar Republic of the early 1930 ’s. In 1920‚ his family moved to Berlin when their hometown became part of Poland after World War I. He earned a Bachelor ’s Degree in Aeronautical Engineering in 1932 from the Berlin Institute of Technology. He received a Ph. D. in Physics two years later from the University of Berlin. Von Braun did not do well in school until
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he’s assuming here. Another reason that has Mark convinced that the Earth is flat and not round is because a man went and interviewed all the astronauts of Apollo 13 to talk about their adventures that they thought but was instead a trick to get them to swear on the Bible that they did see that the Earth was round. When the astronauts of Apollo 13 were outraged that they were asked to swear on the Bible‚ the interviewer was very shocked to see such a reaction from them. To Mark that may have meant
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