Apollo

media type="google" key="1416393771637021814&hl=en&fs=true" width="400" height="326" Apollo By Jonathan The Apollo mission was a mission to get United States men on the moon. Some missions were also Earth and Lunar orbital missions. John F. Kennedy announced the United State’s goal of sending men to the moon within a decade on May 25, 1961. Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in 1969.

NASA was given the goal of safely landing men on the moon. It was an incredibly tough challenge by itself, but part of the mission was to do it in a decade! But the United States was determined, especially since Soviet Union was the first to land a rocket on the moon. After Apollo 11, the US was successfully the first country to have men on the moon.

Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin were in the spacecraft when NASA’s rocket landed. It was hard to land because of all the craters and such. Michael Collins was an astronaut on the mission but stayed in lunar orbit while Armstrong and Aldrin went to the moon.

NASA’s headquarters is at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. That is where most of NASA’s rockets take off and land. Some also take off and land in Houston, Texas. Each Apollo mission took place at either Kennedy Space Center or, of course, in space.

The most famous Apollo missions were Apollo 1, Apollo 11, and Apollo 13. On Apollo 1, three astronauts tragically died in a pre-launch test. On Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin were the first people to step on the moon. On Apollo 13, there was an oxygen leak and the astronauts amazingly made it back, unharmed. There was even a movie made about Apollo 13! NASA's first mission, before the Apollo ones, was called Mercury.

I hope that you have learned a lot about this amazing project called Apollo. You never know, you might be the first person to walk on Mars! Bibliography Works Cited Vogt, Gregory. __Apollo Moonwalks The Amazing Lunar Missions (Countdown to Space)__. New York: Enslow, 2000. Marcovitz, Hal. __Reaching for the Moon The Apollo Astronauts (Explorers of New Worlds)__. New York: Chelsea House Publications, 2000. "NASA History - The Apollo Program." 18 May 2009 . Vogt, Gregory. __Spacewalks The Ultimate Adventure in Orbit (Countdown to Space)__. New York: Enslow, 2000.

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