PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Mercury Missions
- Put a man in space
- Just wanted to see if we could orbit Earth and back
- Part of the Space Race with the Soviet Union
Gemini Missions
- Sent two people up in space
- 19 total launches
- longer missions
- Goal of linking two crafts while in orbit
Apollo Missions
- Goal to land on moon
- 3 astronauts
- Apollo 11 first landing
Apollo 1
- First manned mission to get to the moon
- Fire broke out in the module
- All three astronauts died
- Next manned mission was Apollo 7
Space exploration has provided a lot of new products in our daily lives. We have more advanced technologies such as camera phones, CAT scans, and LED lights.
The Apollo program was reported to cost $25 billion. Some argue that we spend too much on space exploration despite all the positive outcome and products we get from exploring our universe.
President JFK was very in favor of space exploration and since he was such a well liked president, many joined the initial movement towards space.
The Space Race between the United States and Russia is what initially drove our country into space exploration. We were focused on being such a powerful global superpower that we didn't predict what a huge program it would turn into.
