Apollo's Moon Persuasive Speech

Americans Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin were eventually the first men to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969. That would not have been possible, however, without years of trial and error and massive manpower and motivation that led up to their now famous Apollo 11 mission that put them on the moon. Before President Kennedy’s 1961 speech funding for the Apollo program was less than 1 percent of NASA’s total budget. In the years following his speech Apollo’s share of the budget grew to 70 percent. Without that income it would not have been possible for NASA scientists and engineers, contractors and the entire country to put in the hours and energy to make this dream a reality. Gearing up for the Apollo missions, which all took place

From scientists to seamstresses, men and women from all across the U.S. were chosen to help with the Apollo missions. Even though very few Americans would ever walk on the moon — only 12 to this day to be exact — hundreds of thousands of people were required to make it happen. Nothing quite as significant in terms human cooperation had ever been attempted before that point. While clearly the scientific advances in space exploration were the most obvious successes of the Apollo program, some historians like NASA’s Roger D. Launius report that perhaps the most important legacy of the program was in the way so many people had to come together to manage such a gigantic and important project. This had never been done before and many think it could never be replicated again. Encounter: Politics, Pressure and

In the two and half years that followed, NASA and the massive Apollo mission team banned together to launch four manned flights Apollo flights (Apollo 7, 8, 9 and 10), each one setting the stage for the first moon landing. Apollo 7 orbited the earth 163 times and was the live television broadcast from space; Apollo 8 looped around the moon for the first time in history; Apollo 9 tested the lunar module for the first time; and Apollo 10 orbited the moon and came within nine miles of its surface and transmitted the first live color TV images from space. Then, on July 20, 1969, a little more than eight years after President Kennedy announced to the world that Americans would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade and more than five years after Kennedy’s untimely death, the crew of Apollo 11 — Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins — landed on the moon. Only 30 seconds of fuel remained when the lunar module, called the “Eagle,” landed on the surface of the moon at 5:18 PM CDT. Armstrong sent a radio message. “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed,” Armstrong said. Then Mission control team in Houston and basically the entire world