Moon Outline
Moon Outline
Long and Short Term Causes of Moon Landing
Establish Lunar Base – Wernher von Braun idea
Moon exploration program started during Eienhower era
Soviet success with Yuri Gagarin being put into space caused Kennedy to search for program to catch Americas imagination
Kennedy asked his vice president Lyndon Johnson to come up with such a plan.
As Johnson was from Texas he proposed space idea because NASA base in Houston and would provide economically for them.
Kennedy said during 1960 election there was disparity in missiles between US and USSR from previous administration (opposite true).
This declaration made Kennedy beat Nixon in election
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He ensured continuing funding, shielding space spending from the 1963 tax cut and diverting money from other NASA projects.
Apollo program allowed dual-use technology between military and space
“Everything we do ought to really be tied in to getting on to the moon ahead of the Russians [] otherwise we shouldnt be spending that kind of money, because Im not interested in space […] The only justification for [the cost] is because we hope to beat [the USSR] to demonstrate that instead of being behind by a couple of years, by God, we passed them.” quote Kennedy had with head of NASA James E. Webb
NASA said possible breakthroughs in medicine and interesting picture of Earth would result.
Scientific discoveries and fear of Societ space domination allowed program to succeed.
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USSR got first artificial satellite into space October 1957. Sputnik 1
Russian Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first man in space, as part of the Vostok program.
Moon Landing
Three part space craft
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Command Module for sleeping and flight control
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Service Module for propulsion and spacecraft support systems
Lunar Module to take two of the crew to the lunar surface, support them on the Moon, and return them to the CSM in lunar orbit.
Saturn 5 rockets for space flight
First moon landing by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin July 20, 1969
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Command module called Columbia controlled by Michael Collins.
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Lunar Module called Eagle
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Luna 2 first spacecraft on moon. To test feasibility to land on moon. Soviet
Neil Armstrong said, “Thats one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” When he stepped on the moon.
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U.S claimed no ownership to any part of moon.
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Apollo 11 fifth human spaceflight of the Apollo program, the third human voyage to the moon, and the first manned mission to land on the Moon.
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Apollo 11 departed July 16, 1969. From Kennedy Space Center
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30 minutes after being in orbit command/ service module disconnected from last rocket stage and joined at nose of the lunar module
Landed in Sea of Tranquility.
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Sea of Tranquiliy chosen because it was flat and smooth according to the probes