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Shooting for the Moon The Space Race. Power point created by Robert L. Martinez Primary Content Source: All the People by Joy Hakim Images as cited.
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Shooting for the MoonThe Space Race Power point created by Robert L. Martinez Primary Content Source: All the People by Joy Hakim Images as cited.
It was an outrageous idea, to expect to leave the earth’s atmosphere and make it to the moon, especially in the same century that people had first learned to fly. http://www.flickr.com/photos/staalen/2425958499/
We might not have tried it at all if it hadn’t been for Russia. When the Russians sent a satellite into space, called Sputnik, we couldn’t believe it. http://www.imagine101.com/Sputnik.jpg
We Americans had the idea that we were better than others. It was a kind of national arrogance. We aren’t better or smarter than other people. http://pro.corbis.com/search/Enlargement.aspx?mediauid=014FB86A-6F62-4B88-A4BE-B47B6E0F9F8A
Russia’s Sputnik got us energized. We didn’t want our communist foes to take over space. Soviet control room http://www1.umn.edu/scitech/web-docs/assign/space/vostok_control.html
Then, in April 1961, the Russians sent a man rocketing into space. His name was Yuri Gagarin. http://www.mandvice.com/mnt/w0301/d09/s21/b0275776/www/mandvice.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/YuriGagarin.jpg
The United States had a space agency, NASA , but we were behind the Russians, and we couldn’t stand the idea. Mr. Martinez visiting the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photograph provided by Robert L. Martinez
Vehicle Assembly Building, Kennedy Space Center, Florida (houses the Space Shuttles). Photographed by Robert L. Martinez
President John F. Kennedy made a speech announcing our intention to put a man on the moon “before the decade is out.” We were off on a space race. http://www.daviddarling.info/images/Kennedy.jpg
This moon trip became the will of a nation. It took the talent of thousands of brains, it took the lives of some astronauts (who were killed in explosive misfires). Astronauts White, Grissom, and Chaffee http://www.datamanos2.com/apollo1/apollo1module1.jpg
The first step toward the moon was flight into space. Texan Alan B. Shepard was squeezed into a spacesuit in a space capsule just big enough to hold him. Alan Shepard http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/webpics/Alan_Shepard.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/stunned/2892935183/
This was the Mercury project, named for the swift messenger of the ancient Roman gods. (The space craft was named Freedom 7). http://www.flickr.com/photos/stunned/2893773574/
The first American manned flight into space lasted 15 minutes. http://www.spacetoday.org/images/History/Freedom7SuborbitalNASA.jpg
The Mercury flights, there were 6 of them, were an important first step. One Mercury flight lasted 34 hours. 7 Original Mercury Astronauts http://www.flickr.com/photos/9805197@N07/750560138/ http://www.fiftiesweb.com/pop/mercury-astronauts.jpg
Next came the Geminiprogram, named for twin stars. They were two-manned flights intended to test docking techniques. http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/gemini/geminimain.jpg
Gemini connected with a target vehicle, named Agena. The spacecraft touched noses and clamped themselves together in space. http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/mwade/graphics/g/gemini6b.jpg
The Gemini astronauts walked outside the capsule in space suits, into outer space, but with a cord that firmly tied them to their ship. My daughter visiting the Kennedy Space Center In Florida. Photographed by Robert L. Martinez
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On the morning of July 16,1969, five months before President Kennedy’s deadline of the end of the decade, the sun was bright and the skies were clear at Cape Canaveral on Florida’s east coast. http://www.sierratel.com/patplc/Apollo7.htm
Some 8,000 people were packed into a special viewing area; others jammed nearby roads and beaches to view the launching of Apollo 11. http://www.batsinthebelfry.com/rover/rover_images/ap15_launch_McMillan.jpg
Nearby, three men sat strapped elbow to elbow inside a narrow capsule on top of a Saturn rocket that stood as tall as a 30-story building. http://www.staynehoff.net/8-mission-boarding.jpg
Neil Armstrong, a civilian pilot, was in the left seat. Some said he was the nation’s best jet test pilot. http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/5528.jpg
Edwin Aldrin sat in the middle. Everyone called him by his school nickname, Buzz. Some of his scientific ideas had gone into this mission. http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/5390.jpg
Michael Collins, another air force officer and test pilot, was to pilot the command ship, which would orbit the moon while the other two men descended to the lunar surface in the landing vehicle. http://www.daviddarling.info/images/Collins_Michael.jpg
The rocket, named Saturn V, belched fire and its own billowing clouds, lifted off, and seemed to rise slowly. http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/39961.jpg
But that was just an illusion, after two and a half minutes Saturn V was 41 miles above Earth. It was traveling at 5,400 mph when its first stage fell away. http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/39526.jpg
Mission Control, Kennedy Space Center, Florida Photographed by Robert L. Martinez
The next stage took the astronauts 110 miles above Earth, carrying them at 14,000 mph, and was jettisoned (dropped away). http://www.flightsimulationforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=1196
The third stage got them to 17,000 mph. they were now weightless and orbiting the earth. It was only 17 minutes after liftoff. http://www.flightsimulationforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=1196
After they had circled the globe twice, the third-stage engine fired the ship away from Earth’s orbit. It would take three days to get to the moon. http://www.flightsimulationforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=1196
Television took us into space and then put us on the rocky, craggy, pockmarked moon. When the two men stepped out of the landing vehicle, we were there. I too, was watching. http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/5869.jpg http://www.funnytheworld.com/2004/Sep/Alice9.jpg
It was an American spaceship, but it was a world event. http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/5948.jpg
Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon’s crunchy soil and said, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” It was an understatement. http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/5880.jpg
