Apollo 11

Armstrong's second flight was Apollo 11 in 1969. He was the mission commander. He flew with Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon in a lander named "Eagle." They were the first people to land on the moon. Collins did not land. He circled the moon in the Apollo capsule. After they landed, Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the moon. Armstrong took the first step on the moon. He said…

small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”, it is talking about how Neil Armstrong and his team, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins landed on the moon which marked history for the U.S. and for the world in 1969. After the successful mission of the Apollo 11 the U.S finally landed a man on the moon, this resulted in uniting America more than ever, it resulted in over 6,000 inventions that we use daily, and most importantly, it ended the space race between the USSR and US which costed billions…

surface of the moon, Neil Armstrong remarked, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Indeed, mankind demonstrated its ability to go beyond expectations and achieve the impossible through the widely speculated event of the 1969 Apollo 11 space mission that landed the first human beings, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, on the moon. In the selection Greatest moment of time, writers of the British national newspaper the Times report the event from the start of the space…

ethos, logos and pathos to strengthen their speeches and to really connect to the audience. In the first text, “Man Takes First Steps on the Moon” the speaker is the Times of London in third person point of view. The occasion is the take-off of Apollo 11 and successfully landing onto the moon. Especially Neil Armstrong being the first man to take a walk on the moon's surface. The audience is the entire world or just anyone in general reading the times. The audience may also be the colleagues…

there are still many conspiracies that say the moon landing was fake. The Space Race was a competition between the Soviet Union and the United States for the greatest achievements in space exploration. But on July 16, 1969, the US sent mission Apollo 11 into space, and they were the first to land and step foot on the moon. The US couldn't have faked this, but others argue otherwise. In my opinion, the US moon landing was completely real and would be hard to fake, and there are many deductions…

into lunar orbit around the moon. Expressed by the author, the lunar orbit brought the crew closer to the ultimate destina-tion, the Sea of Tranquility, a smooth, flat surface on the face of the moon that served as an ideal landing point for the Apollo 11 crew. (Thorne, 32) On the morning of July 20, 1969, the antici-pated landing was set and ready to go. The two astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong en-tered the cockpit of the “Eagle”, it was described by the author as a spider-shaped…

The 1969 Apollo 11 mission took a combination of determination and luck to accomplish. It was filled with many twists and turns yet it still came to be a profound mark in history. The following texts are related to the 1969 Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the moon. “Man Takes First Steps on the Moon” from The Times of London reports the day of the event. The speech “In Event of Moon Disaster” by William Safire is a speech that would have been given if the mission wouldn’t have…

alive in 1969 are often asked where they were during the first moon landing and for those people, it is terrifying to think that the things we recognize as historical, groundbreaking events could have been planned or staged by the government. The Apollo 11 moon landing was viewed by 600 million people who were amazed by it at the time. America had beat Russia in the race to the moon! Although, modern technology has been able to take a closer look at all of the details that do not quite add up.…

NASA has not completed all of their missions. Most missions have succeeded their goals however, there is a handful of missions that have failed. Space mission Gemini, Apollo 13, and Spirit and Opportunity have two things in common. They all have spinoffs, and they all tried or succeeded to travel to planets. This mission is Apollo 13, the only one that did not accomplish its goal, Gemini, and Spirit and Opportunity are missions that succeeded. Space mission Spirit and Opportunity were…

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik into orbit. From that point on, the United States and the USSR were thrown into a race to see who could get further into space and develop the technology to do so. This became known as the Space Race. In response, to the Sputnik satellite the United States launched Explorer 1 on January 31, 1958 just four months after the Soviets. Soon, both the Soviets and the Americans were launching larger spacecrafts, with animals and…