Historical Landmarks – The 1969 Moon Landings The 1969 Moon Landings introduce controversial debate as to whether their significance adopted a landmark status. The culmination of expenditure, years of research and vast planning led to the successful mission in sending man to the moon in July 1969. The Moon Landings were a product of the notorious Cold War due to the commencement of the Space Race between the Soviet Union and America which was initiated with the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957 as well as Yuri Gagarin being the first man in space in 1961. The American space race success The leap for Aldrin and Armstrong into the eyes of the media and the public’s attention began with the estimated 600 million watching the Moon Landings live worldwide. The Moon Landings introduce landmark controversy through political, social, environmental, scientific and exploration factors.
Firstly the main goal of the American government was to land on the moon before Russia did. This was to do the with whole arms race that was going on throughout the “Cold War”. The American public strongly believed that once man had landed on the moon, they would start to build colonies up there. While the public were dreaming of dome houses and moon cities the U.S military had other ideas. Project Horizon was the plan to establish a military base on the moon, one with minimal personnel required to function.
And how far are we willing to go in order to pursue our hopes of life on the red planet? A total amount of 598.169.000 Euros have been spent on launching all the rovers since the sixties into space in order to explore mars. That amount of money could have been used for supplying food to third world countries or to spend on cancer research. So what convinces scientists that this amount of money had to be invested into all these space projects? After all, we will never retrieve the shuttles once they blast through our atmosphere on a one-way trip.
In July of 2011, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration bid farewell to manned spaceflight as the Space Shuttle Atlantis landed back on earth. The Obama administration had scrapped NASA’s already problematic plan to return humans to the moon by 2020. With finances unsure many in the astronomical community began advocating for the increased use of unmanned robotics in space, arguing that they will serve as more efficient explorers of planetary surfaces than astronauts. The heart of the debate is that robotic machines will only do what they are programmed to do; they are not programmed to detect weirdness: the unimaginable, the unknown. Will they be able to detect the weird microscopic life-forms they are not programmed to recognize that might be lurking below the surface of Mars, or beneath the murky seas of Jupiter’s moon, Europa (Kazan)?
The first telescope was used by Italian Galileo in sixteen hundred and nine; Galileo was able to make out a few fuzzy crates on the moon’s surface. For many centuries after that humans improved on telescopes, building bigger and better telescopes. But eventually building bigger and better telescopes no longer improved our view. Earth’s atmosphere would always distort light, or bend the light rays astronomers could see. The earth’s atmosphere was limiting how far we could see into space, so astronomers decided to bypass the atmosphere.
This expedition alighted astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon on July 20th, 1969 which enabled them to collect the first samples from another planetary body (1). For many, this was an event that marked a momentous time in history but for others, this was nothing more than a hoax. “The whole thing seems phony to me,” says After viewing this documentary, Phil Plaits said, “From the first moment to the very last, the program is loaded with bad thinking, ridiculous suppositions and utterly wrong science.” People like Plaits were outraged by the fact that there were others that thought that such a triumphant event was staged but what did cause people to believe that such a massive feat was staged? Discrepancies in the pictures, videos and accounts of the crew misled the public to believe that the spacecraft Apollo 11 never made it to the moon and man never set foot there. One discrepancy that was found in the pictures on the moon was that there were no stars.
Did American astronauts really land on the Moon? Millions of excited people around the world watched the extraordinary event, but on these days many people ask themselves the same question. Many different opinions have been said, and many questions have not been answered. However NASA has enough evidence to prove its landing. Should we believe them?
In the movie "Armageddon", a huge asteroid was on its way to destroy the Earth and everyone that lived on it until an American telescope saw it in space and an American oil driller saved the day! How that came about is way beyond me, but personally I would let some other scientists get involved from other countries as we in America can't even make a car that runs good for five years! Besides movies, there is
The | |fact that man has achieved outstanding success in space exploration is sufficient reason why the program should be continued, | |and the nature of the success achieved so far justifies space exploration. In 1957 the Russians launched Sputnik into space, | |followed a month later by the launching of the first animal, the dog Laika, into space. In January 1959 the Russians | |successfully flew Luna I past the moon. Two months after, the American Pioneer 4 flew by the moon. Though the Ranger missions | |missed their target and the first Apollo spacecraft, sitting on the ground, caught fire, the space program had taken off.
On the 4th of October 1957, Sputnik 1 launched into orbit, the first man-made satellite. This satellite was controlled by the Soviets. Although this spread joy and pride throughout the Soviet Union, countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom became fearful of the device orbiting the Earth. This became a constant fear for political leaders during the Cold War. Before, the Space Race was nothing more than a competition to decide whether capitalism or communism was a more superior