"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard" (Kennedy). When John F. Kennedy said these famous words, he set the stage for one of the greatest accomplishments the United States of America has ever made. Over the course of that decade, the space race would be in full swing; a universal goal would unite the nation to achieve the dream of sending a man to the moon and safely back to earth. Through human determination, the United States made enough scientific breakthroughs to alter events back on planet earth. In one decade, this nation was able to prove that the sky is no longer the limit. How was the United States able to effectively accomplish such a colossal task, and what was the global significance at the time?
[REVISE] The success of Apollo 11 which included the historic presence of the first humans on the moon signified the greatest extent of human intellectual advancement. Various circumstances were undertaken throughout the effort in success that established the United States’ superiority in terms of scientific and military progress.
This renowned and famous moonwalk, which confused scientists for years, had finally become a dream come true not only for Americans, but also the entire world. It was July 20, 1969, the day that reshaped our nation and gave us unprecedented dreams for the future. The impact of that day goes far beyond our self-esteem and patriotism; that day changed the history of space exploration and technology forever. As thousands of people watched the live broadcast on television, a feeling of exaggerated elation came over the nation as Neil Armstrong stepped afoot on the surface of the moon. It was the first time in the history of humanity that we would step on the surface of another heavenly body. Just like a comet or an eclipse, that day gave us an inkling of promise and desire, a chance to view man’s greatest achievement in the 20th century, an event so inanimate and incredible.
The visage of a bulky, awkward colonial explorer flickered on television sets throughout the United States on that day in 1969. It was an event that signified much more than what was being relayed. All watched in admiration and awe as the first steps on the moon were made by Neil Armstrong, a lowly Earth creature never meant to break free of its planet’s atmosphere. But it did. And it was an American. As the moon particles settled around the explorer, and a star-spangled flag was brandished, a political victory came into focus, though most television viewers were unable to see clearly what was happening. JFK’s outer space promises to the American people were fulfilled through the NASA program, and we’d left the Soviets, our scientific and ideological rivals, eating our otherworldly dust.
In the year of 1961, the newly elected President John F. Kennedy recognized that the U.S was losing the space race to the Soviets, but had an ambitious plan that would change the course of all humanity`, to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In 1962 JFK effectively delivered his “We choose to go to the Moon” speech in front of 30,000 people at the Rice football stadium using rhetoric to persuade the public to support the immense
As a result of the Cold War America had been in an indirect dispute with the Soviet Union, fueled by competitive attitudes. The accomplishment of space exploration was a hot topic between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.; thus the term “space race” came to use. On May 25, 1961, John F. Kennedy announced the goal of sending an American safely to the Moon (Garber) before this decade is out (Kennedy). This goal was verbalized by Kennedy in 1961 giving The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) until 1971 to accomplish it. This objective drove NASA’s creation of the Apollo Program. Apollo 11 was a part of NASA’s Apollo Program; Apollo 11’s mission objection was to land on the moon. The spacecraft’s commander was the iconic Neil Armstrong. Apollo 11 was launched on July 16, 1969 at 9:32 a.m. EDT (Dunbar), an estimated 530 million people watched Armstrong televised image as he described this event as “…one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind,” on July 20, 1969 (Dunbar). Apollo 11 was The United States’ first mission to ma...
America went to the moon in the 1960’s, during a time of war, a time that was so far behind in technology compared to now, but yet human beings went to the moon . Human beings are capable of many wonderful things and their potential has no limits, except for the limits that are placed by government and society. Neil deGrasse Tyson attempted to liberate NASA from the limits of low funding by giving a speech to the U.S Senate. Tyson used emotion and logical thinking to make the complexity of NASA as relatable to the audience as possible, and by doing so he wanted to convey to them how important NASA is in our society today and the future of the human kind.
"Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy...
"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. No single space project in this period will be more important in the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult of expensive to accomplish."(John F. Kennedy - "Special Joint Session of Congress", May 25th, 1961)
"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," said by Neil Armstrong as he took his first steps on the moon during the NASA Apollo 11 expedition to the moon. No man has ever been to the moon before and NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was the first to get someone to land on the moon. NASA has had many great accomplishments in exploring the "new frontier" that have affected the United States ever since it was first created in July 1958. The idea for NASA first started when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite on October 4, 1957. United States started up its own space travel program and started to work on its own projects that would be better in than the Soviet Union's. This all started the great space race. It was a big race between the Soviet Union and the United States to see who could learn and discover the most. The United States and Soviet Union started building and sending satellites and space ships. Then they tried to see who could make a suit and ship that would be able to allow a living thing to go up in space. They tested out all of the equipment with monkeys and dogs, seeing what would work. Many animals did die in the process but by the results of their testing they were able to build suits and ships that allow human beings to go up in space. Even though they were able to create these machines, that doesn't mean that they didn't have their difficulties and dangers. Two space shuttles were crashed or blown up. There were many key factors that they had learned to fix that resulted in the crashing of those ships. They have made many discoveries and accomplishments like having the first astronauts walk on the moon.