NASA, Moon Landing and 'Moon Walk'

==NASA, Moon Landing and 'Moon Walk' ==

21 July 1969
After the Soviets made Alexey Leonov the first man to complete a ‘space walk’ on the 18th of March 1965 the space race went to a new level. On the 16th of July 1969 the American (NASA) ‘Apollo’ spacecraft, with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldren and Michael Collins, began the 376,586 kilometre journey to the moon with the aim of being the first men to ‘moon walk’.

After the American President 8 years earlier pronounced “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” the goal was achieved and on July 20 ‘The “Eagle” has [Had] landed’. July 21 was the next state when Neil Armstrong became the first man to step on the moon and both him and Aldrin spent 2 hours walking on the moon collecting lunar material. The event of the first ‘moon walk’ is to go down in “the greatest achievement of the 20th century.” and had a huge impact on the world.

The Moon Land in ‘moon walk’ in 1969 has greatly impacted the world, because of the first ‘moon walk’ in 1969 NASA went on to send many more people and spacecraft’s to the moon. The first ‘moon walk’ proved effective geological exploration in the hostile environment of another planet. It is because of this event that we were able to conduct so many explorations (a massive 60 scientific experiments) on the moon and collect many amounts of data relating to it and the solar system. The Apollo missions collected a total of 381.7 kg of lunar material was returned from a total of 6 different and significant lunar locations. Although the moon landing and first ‘moon walk’ was a great event that greatly shaped the world, NASA turned off the last four operating stations on the moon’s surface in 1977. The Space Race, and Moon Landing won by the United States of America’s NASA also greatly shook the world as America were successful in proving they were better and more advance than the Communist Soviets. The Space Race itself in a way was a type of Cold War for this reason.