NOTE: The format on this paper has been messed with a little bit. Apollo 13: Fake or not? Jim Johnson English III Cheryl Hansen March 17‚ 2011 Apollo 11: Fake or not? Some people believe that the landing of Apollo 11 on July 20‚ 1969 was a hoax‚ lots of people say it was fake because the flag was waving and there is no wind on the moon. People say this flag was made of a hard substance‚ so that it would wave and look patriotic. The reason that they had this mission was only to have
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Apollo 11 Mission The Apollo 11 mission was the first man mission to land on the Moon. The Apollo 11 team left Kennedy Space Center on July 16‚ 1969 at 13:32UTC. The mission’s team included Commander Neil Alden Armstrong‚ Commander Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. After being in orbit for 72 hours‚ Armstrong and Aldrin climbed into the Lunar Module‚ named the Eagle‚ and prepared for their descent to the Lunar surface.
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Apollo 11 By: Christian Potts What exactly was Apollo 11? Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that allowed the first men to land on the moon. The ship landed on the moon on June 20th‚ 1969‚ and is considered to be the greatest accomplishment in exploring history for mankind. The ship was launched in Florida on June 16th and was the third mission in NASA’s Apollo program. And by June 21st‚ Neil Armstrong and his crew were the first men in history to walk on the moon. The crew returned home with 47.5 pounds
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Do you know what The Apollo 11 mission was ? The Apollo 11 mission was a mission to go to the moon in 1969 . Neil Armstrong‚ mission commander‚ Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin‚ lunar module pilot‚ and Michael Collins‚ command module pilot . The significance of the Apollo 11 mission where they go samples from the moon ‚ millions of people watched ‚ and that the president Richard Nixon called Neil Armstrong when he was in space . One of the significance of the Apollo 11 mission was they go samples
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Apollo 11 was one of the biggest American accomplishments in its history. Apollo 11 was the first landing on the moon‚ commanded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration‚ NASA for short. “Abe Silverstein‚ the Director of Space Flight Development‚ proposed the name "Apollo" because it was the name of a god in ancient Greek mythology. The model for naming manned spaceflight projects for mythological gods and heroes had been set with Mercury” (Business Insider). There were three astronauts
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very intense speeds as we left the Earth’s atmosphere. We used a new rocket from SpaceX called the Dragon. This rocket will also be taking us back to earth as it is capable of making a launch and return trip. Our first stop on the trip was to the Apollo 11 landing site‚ as it was the place of the first lunar landing. It is also a relatively smooth landing area so it was not difficult to land on. We continually explored something called lunar mares‚ which are basaltic plains formed by ancient volcanic
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Adam has any human known such solitude as Mike Collins is experiencing during this 47 minutes of each lunar revolution when he’s behind the Moon with no one to talk to except his tape recorder aboard Columbia." -Apollo 11 Mission Control On July 20th‚ 1969‚ at 13:46 UTC‚ the Apollo 11 Lunar Module "Eagle"‚ separates from its parent craft‚ the Command Module "Columbia"‚ and with two of our nations finest pilots- two astronauts- aboard begins its decent toward the lunar surface. The media turns its
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The Apollo 11 Mission It all started with one statement: ’’I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal‚ before this decade is out‚ of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth.’’ President John F. Kennedy said this in a special joint session of Congress on May 25‚ 1961. But why was sending a man to the moon so important to the United States? Well‚ the main reason was the US at the time was behind the Soviet Union in space travel developments‚ And America in
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Did Apollo 11 Land on The Moon? Tammy Getzloff Rasmussen College Author’s Note This research is being submitted on February 17th‚ 2013‚ for Barton Pritzl’s G239/AST2002 course at Rasmussen College by Tammy Getzloff. On July 16‚ 1969 three men‚ Neil Armstrong‚ Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin waited anxiously 363 feet above the ground inside the top of the towering Saturn V rocket‚ to begin mankind’s most historic journey to landing on the moon. July 20‚ 1969 at approximately 4:17 p.m
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“‘That’s one small step for a man. One giant leap for mankind’” (“The Apollo Missions”). Neil Armstrong spoke these famous words the first day anyone had stepped foot on the moon. It was not just that any man landed on the moon‚ but it was an American man. The United States of America was proud to say that they were the first on the moon‚ especially when it came to competing with other countries such as the Soviet Union. The Americans had been going back and forth with the Soviet Union for decades
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