EDITED Sept 3, 2019 - Sorry I missed that the title had the wrong month as I marked the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. Sorry for this oversight!
Today is the day that the Apollo 11 mission that put men on the moon returned to the earth. Mission commander the late Neil Armstrong, lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin, and command module pilot Michael Collins were launched on their lunar mission on July 16, 1969. On July 20, 1969, Armstrong & Aldrin landed on the moon with their lunar module named Eagle.
This past spring I saw a documentary titled Apollo 11 which used footage shot 50 years ago of the events leading up the the launch of Apollo 11, then the mission itself, and then the final stages of this mission. That documentary was given a limited release in the nation during that time.
I really became fascinated with space by the time I got to high school - GO FALCONS - and had the ambition to become an astronaut. It was always fascinating that years before my birth astronauts were already going where no one has gone before in this case the moon. We didn't yet need one of those fancy spacecraft with warp drive just the tech and engineering available to go to our closest celestial neighbor.
50 years later we celebrate the accomplishments of the mission that landed men on the moon's surface. Unfortunately I see an ig post that shows that most young people in America are more interested in becoming professional YouTubers (a laudable goal) as opposed to becoming astronauts. What could stir our young people's interest (especially minorities) to take on careers in aerospace?
I wanted to offer this final tidbit although it appears he wasn't directly involved with this effort. I'm sure Chris Kraft who was NASA's very first flight director in the 1960s was indirectly involved in the national effort to send a man to the moon and then return him to the earth. Mr. Kraft died two days after the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing at 95. It's still fascinating to learn the roles played by various people over 50 years ago in America's space program.
Today is the day that the Apollo 11 mission that put men on the moon returned to the earth. Mission commander the late Neil Armstrong, lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin, and command module pilot Michael Collins were launched on their lunar mission on July 16, 1969. On July 20, 1969, Armstrong & Aldrin landed on the moon with their lunar module named Eagle.
This past spring I saw a documentary titled Apollo 11 which used footage shot 50 years ago of the events leading up the the launch of Apollo 11, then the mission itself, and then the final stages of this mission. That documentary was given a limited release in the nation during that time.
I really became fascinated with space by the time I got to high school - GO FALCONS - and had the ambition to become an astronaut. It was always fascinating that years before my birth astronauts were already going where no one has gone before in this case the moon. We didn't yet need one of those fancy spacecraft with warp drive just the tech and engineering available to go to our closest celestial neighbor.
50 years later we celebrate the accomplishments of the mission that landed men on the moon's surface. Unfortunately I see an ig post that shows that most young people in America are more interested in becoming professional YouTubers (a laudable goal) as opposed to becoming astronauts. What could stir our young people's interest (especially minorities) to take on careers in aerospace?
I wanted to offer this final tidbit although it appears he wasn't directly involved with this effort. I'm sure Chris Kraft who was NASA's very first flight director in the 1960s was indirectly involved in the national effort to send a man to the moon and then return him to the earth. Mr. Kraft died two days after the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing at 95. It's still fascinating to learn the roles played by various people over 50 years ago in America's space program.
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