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Shooting for the Moon The Space Race

Shooting for the Moon The Space Race. Power point created by Robert L. Martinez Primary Content Source: All the People by Joy Hakim Images as cited.

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Shooting for the Moon The Space Race

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  1. Shooting for the MoonThe Space Race Power point created by Robert L. Martinez Primary Content Source: All the People by Joy Hakim Images as cited.

  2. It was an outrageous idea, to expect to leave the earth’s atmosphere and make it to the moon, especially in the same century that people had first learned to fly. http://www.flickr.com/photos/staalen/2425958499/

  3. We might not have tried it at all if it hadn’t been for Russia. When the Russians sent a satellite into space, called Sputnik, we couldn’t believe it. http://www.imagine101.com/Sputnik.jpg

  4. We Americans had the idea that we were better than others. It was a kind of national arrogance. We aren’t better or smarter than other people. http://pro.corbis.com/search/Enlargement.aspx?mediauid=014FB86A-6F62-4B88-A4BE-B47B6E0F9F8A

  5. Russia’s Sputnik got us energized. We didn’t want our communist foes to take over space. Soviet control room http://www1.umn.edu/scitech/web-docs/assign/space/vostok_control.html

  6. Then, in April 1961, the Russians sent a man rocketing into space. His name was Yuri Gagarin. http://www.mandvice.com/mnt/w0301/d09/s21/b0275776/www/mandvice.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/YuriGagarin.jpg

  7. The United States had a space agency, NASA , but we were behind the Russians, and we couldn’t stand the idea. Mr. Martinez visiting the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photograph provided by Robert L. Martinez

  8. Vehicle Assembly Building, Kennedy Space Center, Florida (houses the Space Shuttles). Photographed by Robert L. Martinez

  9. President John F. Kennedy made a speech announcing our intention to put a man on the moon “before the decade is out.” We were off on a space race. http://www.daviddarling.info/images/Kennedy.jpg

  10. This moon trip became the will of a nation. It took the talent of thousands of brains, it took the lives of some astronauts (who were killed in explosive misfires). Astronauts White, Grissom, and Chaffee http://www.datamanos2.com/apollo1/apollo1module1.jpg

  11. The first step toward the moon was flight into space. Texan Alan B. Shepard was squeezed into a spacesuit in a space capsule just big enough to hold him. Alan Shepard http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/webpics/Alan_Shepard.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/stunned/2892935183/

  12. This was the Mercury project, named for the swift messenger of the ancient Roman gods. (The space craft was named Freedom 7). http://www.flickr.com/photos/stunned/2893773574/

  13. The first American manned flight into space lasted 15 minutes. http://www.spacetoday.org/images/History/Freedom7SuborbitalNASA.jpg

  14. The Mercury flights, there were 6 of them, were an important first step. One Mercury flight lasted 34 hours. 7 Original Mercury Astronauts http://www.flickr.com/photos/9805197@N07/750560138/ http://www.fiftiesweb.com/pop/mercury-astronauts.jpg

  15. Next came the Geminiprogram, named for twin stars. They were two-manned flights intended to test docking techniques. http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/gemini/geminimain.jpg

  16. Gemini connected with a target vehicle, named Agena. The spacecraft touched noses and clamped themselves together in space. http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/mwade/graphics/g/gemini6b.jpg

  17. The Gemini astronauts walked outside the capsule in space suits, into outer space, but with a cord that firmly tied them to their ship. My daughter visiting the Kennedy Space Center In Florida. Photographed by Robert L. Martinez

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  19. http://www.ssoar.org/research/space-suits/history/gemini-spacewalk.jpghttp://www.ssoar.org/research/space-suits/history/gemini-spacewalk.jpg

  20. On the morning of July 16,1969, five months before President Kennedy’s deadline of the end of the decade, the sun was bright and the skies were clear at Cape Canaveral on Florida’s east coast. http://www.sierratel.com/patplc/Apollo7.htm

  21. Some 8,000 people were packed into a special viewing area; others jammed nearby roads and beaches to view the launching of Apollo 11. http://www.batsinthebelfry.com/rover/rover_images/ap15_launch_McMillan.jpg

  22. Nearby, three men sat strapped elbow to elbow inside a narrow capsule on top of a Saturn rocket that stood as tall as a 30-story building. http://www.staynehoff.net/8-mission-boarding.jpg

  23. Photograph taken by Robert L. Martinez

  24. Neil Armstrong, a civilian pilot, was in the left seat. Some said he was the nation’s best jet test pilot. http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/5528.jpg

  25. Edwin Aldrin sat in the middle. Everyone called him by his school nickname, Buzz. Some of his scientific ideas had gone into this mission. http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/5390.jpg

  26. Michael Collins, another air force officer and test pilot, was to pilot the command ship, which would orbit the moon while the other two men descended to the lunar surface in the landing vehicle. http://www.daviddarling.info/images/Collins_Michael.jpg

  27. Photographed by Robert L. Martinez

  28. The rocket, named Saturn V, belched fire and its own billowing clouds, lifted off, and seemed to rise slowly. http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/39961.jpg

  29. But that was just an illusion, after two and a half minutes Saturn V was 41 miles above Earth. It was traveling at 5,400 mph when its first stage fell away. http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/39526.jpg

  30. Mission Control, Kennedy Space Center, Florida Photographed by Robert L. Martinez

  31. http://www.flightsimulationforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=1196

  32. The next stage took the astronauts 110 miles above Earth, carrying them at 14,000 mph, and was jettisoned (dropped away). http://www.flightsimulationforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=1196

  33. The third stage got them to 17,000 mph. they were now weightless and orbiting the earth. It was only 17 minutes after liftoff. http://www.flightsimulationforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=1196

  34. After they had circled the globe twice, the third-stage engine fired the ship away from Earth’s orbit. It would take three days to get to the moon. http://www.flightsimulationforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=1196

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  43. http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/6642.jpg

  44. Television took us into space and then put us on the rocky, craggy, pockmarked moon. When the two men stepped out of the landing vehicle, we were there. I too, was watching. http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/5869.jpg http://www.funnytheworld.com/2004/Sep/Alice9.jpg

  45. It was an American spaceship, but it was a world event. http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/5948.jpg

  46. http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/5875.jpg

  47. Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon’s crunchy soil and said, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” It was an understatement. http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/5880.jpg

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