Apollo 11 Project

Most improvements on astronomy were in the 1960’s, as most of you know. Many satellites were launched with success. I will talk to you about Apollo-11, the first satellite to land on the moon. I will include when it was launched, name of the mission, and what was the mission, and who landed the satellite.

The Apollo11 was launched on July 16, 1969 from the Kennedy Space Center(at 9:32am) The purpose of the Apollo-11 was to obviously land the moon, earth’s only satellite. This was the fifth human spaceflight of the Apollo project. It carried the famous captain, Neil Armstrong and the command module pilot, Michael Collins, and the lunar module pilot, Edwin Eugene. The person in charge of the lunar landing was Gene Kranz. This successful mission fulfilled President Kennedy’s goal which was to land on the moon by the end of the 1960’s. “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” President Kennedy.

Due to this successful mission, America was able to be the first country to land a satellite on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Edwin Eugene were the two first men to walk on the moon. This was an amazing accomplishment because at that time, Russia was leading all the space explorations. All the accomplishments we reached nowadays are the results of those efforts in the 1960’s.