As the Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr.’s lunar lander picked up speed, Abramson states that it began to veer off course causing the astronauts to consider canceling their landing on the moon. Interviewing the administrator of the Apollo mission General Samuel C. Phillips, Abramson reported that the director believed that the men at mission control made the landing possible. Closing the article Abramson writes that while the lander’s alarms flashed once if they were to of continued mission control would have ordered the astronauts to cancel the landing.
Wilford’s article explains how Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins began orbiting the moon for their landing in Apollo 11. Wilford highlights the astronauts’ trip around the
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While both Armstrong and Aldrin denied speaking on the subject, the article states that they would have oxygen to survive for several days. Auerbach assures the reader that the astronauts did not obtain cyanide pills if this scenario happened as they could opt for removing their helmets.
Following their walk on the moon, it was determined that both astronauts lost several pounds. O’Toole states that walking in their spacesuits contributed to Armstrong and Aldrin’s weight loss. Closing the article O’Toole provides the reader with an update on the astronauts’ current conditions and the discussions that they had while on their journey to the moon and back.
Miles identifies his argument in the article by stating that Aldrin and Armstrong would soon have to worry about the factors of an environment that were unfamiliar to them. Once the astronauts reach their landing site, Miles states that Aldrin and Armstrong will then ready the lunar module for their walk. The final step before the astronauts step on the moon, Miles states is their equipping of their pressure and extravehicular mobility
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Upon embarking from the module to the moon’s surface both Armstrong and Aldrin, begin providing scientists with a description of the landscape, rocks, and gravity of the moon. Cohn states that both astronauts reported various craters formed by meteorites to scientists at NASA.O’Toole,
The article begins with the difficulties that Armstrong and Aldrin faced as they prepared to land on the moon. Unsure of where they needed to land the astronauts navigated their craft manually through the moon dust that was swirling around them. O’Toole admires the bravery of the two men’s ability to go through with the moon landing.
Auerbach opens his article by quoting Armstrong and Aldrin’s remarks on what it was like to walk on the moon. Both astronauts Auerbach states found themselves astounded by how easily they could move in the moon’s gravity. An interesting point that Auerbach focuses on is how the astronauts had to let their eyes get use to the shadows that the sun cast on the moon’s
...ause it was the mission that NASA was able to put the first man up onto the moon. Neil Armstrong was the pilot of the Apollo 11 flight. There was a special shuttle that was attached to the spaceship; it was called the Eagle. The Eagle was designed to transport some crew members down to the moon. Armstrong was responsible for driving and landing the shuttle safely down to the moon. While on his way down to the moon, Armstrong realized that he was starting to run out of fuel. Thankfully, Armstrong did have enough to land on the moon and make it back up to the spaceship. When the Eagle was leaving the spaceship for the first time up in space, it wasn't completely depressurized so there was something like a gas bubble come from the shuttle as it was on its way to the moon. The gas bubble moved the shuttle off course and the Eagle actually landed four miles off course.
As a result of the successful mission that landed the first men on the moon, called the Apollo 11 mission, many people were inspired to provide commentary on this landing. Although these texts describe unique individual purposes about this landing, they all effectively support their purposes through the use of several rhetorical devices.
The following four texts apart of the Culminating Activity were all related to the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, which had first put a man on the moon. The first article was from the Times of London, and served to describe the events of the moon landing from the astronaut's point of view. The article used anecdotal evidence to describe Aldrin and Armstrong's experience in order to inform the audience of what had occurred, as well as the reactions in several different countries.. The speaker is a from a reputable news source, The Times, and is informing the European audience - as this event was apart of America’s space program, NASA - of the landing as a great success. Although
On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong planted the first human footprints in the lunar soil. The United States had accomplished their goal in sending men to the moon. They managed to not only send them 238,857 mi. (384,403 km) into space to our neighbor celestial body, but also send them back with a successful flight to our mother earth. This seems like a difficult task for a country that was behind Russia in space exploration at the time.
Jim Lovell, Ken Mattingly, and Fred Haise train for their new mission. Days before the launch, Mattingly is discovered to have been exposed to rubella, and the flight surgeon demands his replacement with Mattingly 's backup, Jack Swigert, as a safety precaution. After a few days in space Swigert performs a standard housekeeping procedure, one of two liquid oxygen tanks explodes, emptying its contents into space and sending the craft tumbling. The other tank is soon found to be leaking. Mission Control aborts the Moon landing, Lovell and Haise hurriedly power up Aquarius as a "lifeboat" for the return home, and Swigert shuts down Odyssey before its battery power runs out. In Houston, Kranz rallies his team to come up with a plan to bring the astronauts home safely, declaring "failure is not an option". Controller recruits Mattingly to help restart Odyssey for the final
Sambaluk, PhD, Micholas Michael. "John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon." Air & Space Power Journal 27.5 (2013): 156-58. Print.
This film focuses on the events of Apollo 13, which was a mission of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s manned spaceflight program. The goal of the mission was to land two astronauts on the moon to collect geological samples. However, the crew never made it there because an explosion in the middle of their flight damaged much of their rocket and its systems. Leaving
Armstrong and two other men went with him, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin. With 600 million people watching Neil Armstrong made history with the first step on the moon, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” One of the most acknowledged quotes by Armstrong. After four days, Armstrong's team touched down on Earth, he was granted the Medal of Freedom which represents the highest civilian honor bestowed in the United States. In 1982 Armstrong became a professor at the University of Cincinnati, he stayed active in his field of aerospace engineering and later died in 2012 at the age of 82. “I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we did.” -Neil
In the article, Neil Armstrong Facts & Biography, “Neil Armstrong was born on August 5th, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. He was a famous American astronaut, a US naval aviator, aerospace engineer, test pilot, professor, spokesman and the first human to walk on the Moon.”This tell us that he works hard to walk on the moon.When Neil Armstrong was on the test rocket ready to launch into space with his team. The rocket launch, it landed on the moon. Neil Armstrong was wearing a suit, then opening the rocket, when he first walks in the moon. The gravity had changed and the they spent two and a half an hour of the moon. According to, the article, Neil Armstrong Facts & Biography, “He set his left foot on the Moon and he uttered the famous line “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Which means that Neil Armstrong took the first leap on the moon, which he became the first mankind to the moon. Also, in Biography of Neil Armstrong, “Neil Armstrong planted the US flag and he spent two and a half hours on the Moon’s surface. 47.5 pounds of lunar material.” He planted the US flag on to the moon to be the first person to the moon which he stays for 2 and a half hours on the moon getting lunar material. After that, they came back to NACA and reported his trip to the moon. When he was in the moon playing around and understanding how the moon was like, he works hard for a risk that he took no matter what it takes to do what he wanted in life. Now his accomplishment will be forever remain in his
“On July 16, 1969 the world watched in anticipation as three men were hurtled skyward in a rocket bound for the moon.” (news.nationalgeographic.com). This was the Apollo 11 spacecraft, the first successful manned mission to the moon. This mission was the product of the space race (race to see who would go into outer space first, against the Soviet Union). This goal was set by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961 and he promised that we would be the first to step on the moon by the end of the decade. The Apollo 11 mission is often cited as the greatest achievement in human history. (news.nationalgeographic.com)
However, this procedure would require three days, and this demanded more oxygen and electricity than the crew had available to them. Eugene "Gene" Kranz, head of this flight mission, although looking on in horror, began thinking of solutions to the problem immediately after the Controls were aware of the problem on board. Knowing the options of refueling the spacecraft with oxygen or retrieving the astronauts himself, he needed to think of a strategy for a safe return. In this sense, if his solution fails, it could result in the biggest catastrophe in NASA history. There were dozens of people ready on the ground to assist this cause in whatever way possible, but no one helped this mission survive like Eugene "Gene" Kranz, especially as all final call decisions were in his hands.
~"The 1969 Moon Landing: First Humans to Walk on Another World." Science and Its Times. Ed. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer. Vol. 7. Detroit: Gale, 2001. U.S. History in Context. Web. 13 Feb. 2014.
Neil Armstrong was the first person to ever land on the moon. Born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, he graduated from college in 1955 and joined the NASA team. In 1962, he became the first civilian to enter into an astronaut training program. In 1969, Armstrong headed the Apollo 11 mission, becoing the first human being to set foot on the moon. Other astronauts the accompanied Armstrong on this mission were Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins. In 1971, Armstrong became a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati.
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” It was July 20 1969, the day that reshaped our nation and gave us unparalleled dreams for the future. The impact of the day goes far beyond our pride and nationalism; that day would change space exploration and technology forever. Just like a shooting star, that day would give us a glimpse of hope. A chance to see an event so breathtaking and defying, it would be man’s greatest accomplishment in the 20th century. As millions of people watched from their TV sets, a rush of euphoria came over the nation as Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the surface of the moon. It was the first time in the history of mankind that we would step on the surface of another celestial body. John F. Kennedy dared us to dream, he inspired the nation to reach for the moon, to set ourselves apart from the rest of the world. The Space Race was symbolic of many things. Our future as the technically dominate nation was secured in place; just as secure as Old Glory would be, when she was driven down into the soil of the moon. We not only reached the moon, we conquered it as a nation; united.