moon landing

1950 budget

$40 billion, $12 billion military

1960 budget

$90 billion, $80 billion military

nixon quote

for one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all the people on this earth are truly one

sputnik 1 year

1957

first man in space

yuri gagarin 1961

nasa acronym

national aeronautics and space administration

nasa established

1958 by eisenhower

national defence education act

1958, $900mil on stem

explorer 1 year

1958

jfk promise year

1961

mercury program

1959-63
test humans ability to survive in space
cost $277 mil
Alan Shepard first american in space

Gemini program

1963-66
ability to survive long missions, rendezvous, docking, landing

cost $1.3 billion

Apollo Program

1961-72
land a man on the moon
cost $25 billion

Apollo 1

1967, destroyed by fire on ground, 3 astronauts killed

Apollo 7

first mission to carry crew, broadcast live on tv

rocket breakthrough

1967, saturn V rocket designed by Wernher Von Braun

Apollo 10

complete, crewed mission around the moon

first manned mission to the moon year

1969

3 parts of apollo 11

Command module, service module, lunar module

3 astronauts

Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins

apollo 11 launch time and date

9.32am 16th july 1969

time taken to reach earths orbit

11 minutes

distance travelled

384,400km

moon landing date + location

20 july 1969 on sea of tranquility

landing quote

contact light on. engine off. the eagle hs landed

time spent on moon

21 hours, 36 minutes

JFK quote

to land “a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth”

SALT 1 year

1972

eisenhower military ind. complex quote

“we must guard against the aquisition of unwarranted influence by the military industrial complex

MIC quote

the military industrial complex is the single most successful public-private partnership in the history of the United States, but its success has come at the cost of our democracy - Seymore Melman

conclusion quote

the moon landing was not just a technological achievement, but a profound cultural event. It symbolised the triumph of human ingenuity and a new era of exploration, but it was also deeply rooted in cold war competition - Douglas Brinkley