Apollo Program Research Paper

The Apollo Program “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” was stated by Neil Armstrong once a national goal was accomplished. Landing successfully on the moon was a major goal for astronauts of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin were honored to be the very first of mankind to step foot on the moon, and allowed America to set future goals for outer-space journeys. With the assigned Apollo mission, America was granted much needed hope. Astronauts of NASA in the Apollo Program accomplished John F. Kennedy’s goal of placing the first man on the moon safely for the United States. John F. Kennedy set a national goal for the 1960 to put the first man safely on

Little did anyone know or expect this would be the most rewarding mission since 1961. Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins left from the Kennedy Space Center on the east coast of Florida on July 16,1969. Michael Collins was the command module pilot, Neil Armstrong was the mission commander, and Buzz Aldrin was the lunar module pilot. The Apollo 11 crew traveled 240,000 miles in just 72 hours, Apollo 11 entered into a lunar orbit on July 19,1696. Collins detached for the lunar module The mission was already ahead of schedule with Americans waiting to see what was going to happen next for their country. At 10:39 p.m., Armstrong, being televised, opened the hatch of the lunar module, and three minutes later Armstrong made history by putting his left foot of the moon’s powdery surface. When Armstrong stepped down from the last step from the spacecraft, all of America jumped for excitement and joy. Aldrin soon joined Armstrong 19 minutes later, and together they took photographs, then planted the United States flag. President Nixon was so very blessed and honored that he was able to witness America make history on July 24, 1969 along with all of the other Americans. Returning back to Earth

In today’s time we now have cellphones, smaller computers, and cars that to us when driving but before the Apollo Program faster technology didn’t even come to your mind. Americans having hope for accomplishing goals was another thing that didn’t come to mind for many, all everybody could think of was the war and who is watching the United States. Having gone to the moon, the U.S. now has a new way of discovering different technologies to meet everyday society. Technologies that were present during the time of the Apollo Program were not as state of the art as they are today. A computer during the 1960’s only could do simple math and possibly small shapes for the most part, but with the discoveries from the teams at NASA and the Apollo Program computers can be made into many shapes and sizes with more than just 2 things. They are also now made to make calls, research materials from the internet and download app to meet the needs of people in the society. In 1969 a regular computer size was equivalent to 72 kilobytes (KB) of storage. Now when someone owns a computer or any source of technology has on average 1310 KB of storage which is 150 times larger than when the Apollo Program was occurring. Some may say that if there was a better source of technology for the Apollo Program to occur then the astronauts of America would have been to the moon sooner than July 20,1969. After everything that