Moon Race 1

Moon Landing and the Apollo Mission
By : Boglárka Matta
The United States in 1969
Dr. Glant Tibor
SPACE RACE
”The space race was a series of competitive technology demonstrations
between the United States and the Soviet Union, aiming to show superiority in
spaceflight. It was an outgrowth of the mid-20th-century Cold War, a tense
global conflict that pitted the ideologies of capitalism and communism against
one another, according to an online exhibit from the National Air and Space
Museum.” (Space.com)
• 1st conflict: Sputnik 1 satellite- The U.S. wanted to begin their space
program with their own satellite, but The Soviets were faster
• The Soviets considered to be better at space travel: Yuri Gagarin, the first
person who flied in space, was in the Soviet team as well
• After all these, the U.S. did a big step: John. F. Kennedy- Moon Speech
• ”Victory”: the biggest event, The Apollo Program is connected to the U.S
1969 missions
U.S. Soviet
• Luna E-8-5 No.402

• Apollo 10 -The crew: Thomas • Soyuz 7K-L1S No.5
Stafford, John W. Young, • Luna 15-this was the one
Eugene A. Cernan which reached the lunar
• It was like a prolusion: the orbit, but it was
actual landing did not unsuccessful: it crashed
happen. into the Moon
• Apollo 11- the very first • Zond 7- the first one which
moon landing was successful: returned to
• Apollo 12- the second Earth
successful crewed mission • Kosmos 300
which landed on the Moon. • Kosmos 305 } failed
• 1961- setting the goal, John
F. Kennedy: He wanted to
land a man on the moon, and
returning him back to the
Earth safely.
The Apollo Mission
• 1966- NASA, 1st unnamed
mission
• the Apollo 11 took off from

Kennedy Space Center,
July 16,1969
• The crew: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin
• They travelled: 240,000 miles in 76 hours
• When the crew landed they had only 40 seconds of fuel left
• At 10:56 p.m. Neil Armstrong landed his foot on the moon’s
surface
• ”One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”-
N.A.
• 19 minutes later Aldrin joined him
• Collins was remained in the command module
• They spent 21 hours and 36 minutes on the Moon
• On July 22- they began their journey home
”The Eagle has landed”-
N.A.
Besides his legendary sentence,

Neil Armstrong radioed when the
Eagle lunar landed, and that
became one of the symbols of
the Apollo 11 mission.
Thoughts from the crew members about the Moon landing
• "There's so many unknowns in that descending from lunar orbit down to the surface
that hadn't been demonstrated by testing, and there was a big chance that we didn't
understand something in there properly, and we had to abort and come back to Earth
without landing.”- N.A.
• "We could have crashed and burned, and fuel went to 15 seconds or so, but no
catastrophe ... We were glad to be down.”-B.A.
• "It was a privilege to have been able to undertake the first manned mission to the
lunar surface, an honor to have worked with so many good and dedicated people, and
to have left our footprints there.”-B.A
• "I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a
distance of 100,000 miles their outlook could be fundamentally changed. That all-
important border would be invisible, that noisy argument silenced. The tiny globe
would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions, presenting a unified façade
that would cry out for unified understanding, for homogeneous treatment. The earth
must become as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist or Communist; blue and
white, not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or envied.”-M.C.
THE FOOTPRINT OF ARMSTRONG
NEIL ARMSTRONG, MICHAEL COLLINS, BUZZ ALDRIN

Homecoming: The crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, July 24
Control room during the Apollo 11 mission
Women’s position in space travel
• Women made up no more than 5% of the workforce, during the

Apollo era.
• Not just men, but women also had big responsibilities: they helped
with astronauts trainings, controlled their condition during space
travels.
• Women like Frances Northcutt or Joan Morgan achieved big changes:
they became engineers at NASA, as only women allowed in the
control rooms during the Apollo programs.
Hungarians in the Apollo Program
1. Ferenc Pavlics: He started the development of the Lunar Roving Vehicle for
the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Boeing Company
-1971: Pavlics got a NASA award for the success of the Apollo program
2. Victor Szebehely: His work provided the tools still used to chart the orbits of
spacecraft, his first book, The Theory of Orbits, is an important work in orbital
mechanics
2.
1.
Farkas Bertalan
• The first Hungarian
in space
• May 26, 1980
• He was a cosmonaut
on Soyuz 36
Sources
• Shreve, Bradley G. “THE US, THE USSR, AND SPACE
EXPLORATION, 1957-1963.” International Journal on World Peace, vol.
20, no. 2, 2003, pp. 67–83. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20753399.
• https://www.space.com/space-race.html
• https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/neil-armstrong-rare-interview-
frustrated-nasa-lacks-direction/story?id=16423267
• https://www.businessinsider.com/
• https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jul/HQ_09-
164_Collins_statement.html

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Moon Landing and the Apollo Mission

• Luna E-8-5 No.402

• the Apollo 11 took off from

Besides his legendary sentence,

NEIL ARMSTRONG, MICHAEL COLLINS, BUZZ ALDRIN

• Women made up no more than 5% of the workforce, during the

• May 26, 1980

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