Moon Outline

Long and Short Term Causes of Moon Landing

i. Establish Lunar Base - Wernher von Braun idea

ii. Moon exploration program started during Eienhower era

iii. Soviet success with Yuri Gagarin being put into space caused Kennedy to search for program to catch Americas imagination

iv. Kennedy asked his vice president Lyndon Johnson to come up with such a plan.

v. As Johnson was from Texas he proposed space idea because NASA base in Houston and would provide economically for them.

vi. Kennedy said during 1960 election there was disparity in missiles between US and USSR from previous administration (opposite true).

vii. This declaration made Kennedy beat Nixon in election

viii. He ensured continuing funding, shielding space spending from the 1963 tax cut and diverting money from other NASA projects.

ix. Apollo program allowed dual-use technology between military and space

x. “Everything we do ought to really be tied in to getting on to the moon ahead of the Russians [...] otherwise we shouldn't be spending that kind of money, because I'm 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

xi. NASA said possible breakthroughs in medicine and interesting picture of Earth would result.

xii. Scientific discoveries and fear of Societ space domination allowed program to succeed.

xiii. USSR got first artificial satellite into space October 1957. Sputnik 1

xiv. Russian Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first man in space, as part of the Vostok program.

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Moon Landing

xvi. Three part space craft

xvii. Command Module for sleeping and flight control

xviii. Service Module for propulsion and spacecraft support systems

xix. 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.

xx. Saturn 5 rockets for space flight

xxi. First moon landing by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin July 20, 1969

xxii. Command module called Columbia controlled by Michael Collins.

xxiii. Lunar Module called Eagle

xxiv. Luna 2 first spacecraft on moon. To test feasibility to land on moon. Soviet

xxv. Neil Armstrong said, “That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” When he stepped on the moon.

xxvi. U.S claimed no ownership to any part of moon.

xxvii. 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.

xxviii. Apollo 11 departed July 16, 1969. From Kennedy Space Center

xxix. 30 minutes after being in orbit command/ service module disconnected from last rocket stage and joined at nose of the lunar module

xxx. Landed in Sea of Tranquility.

xxxi. Sea of Tranquiliy chosen because it was flat and smooth according to the probes