{"id":7796,"date":"2020-07-21T01:31:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T19:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=7796"},"modified":"2020-07-21T01:31:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T19:31:23","slug":"anniversary-of-apollo-11-momentous-mission-man-walks-on-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/government\/anniversary-of-apollo-11-momentous-mission-man-walks-on-moon-20200721","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary of Apollo 11 Momentous Mission\u2014 Man Walks on Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Mercury missions were to see if people could survive in space, the Gemini missions were the testbed for technology that would be used in the Apollo missions later on, but the Apollo missions began with the mission of putting a man on the moon.<\/p>\n
During the Soviet advancements in the space race<\/em> and Yuri Gagarin orbiting the earth. President John F. Kennedy addressed a joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961, where he urged Congress and the American people to help the United States space program.<\/p>\n 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, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win… [1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n His aim was to prove that freedom beats tyranny.<\/p>\n The steps the United States government would take to beat the Soviets in the space race<\/em> consisted of giving more money to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) which according to NASA is responsible for unique scientific and technological achievements in human spaceflight, aeronautics, space science, and space applications that have had widespread impacts on our nation and the world. [2]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n