The Apollo Space Mission

1. The Apollo Space Mission pg. 2 (Trevor W:March 26th, 2008) The Apollo Space Mission was first developed in 1960 under NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It was intended to meet the goal of the United Stats former president, John F. Kennedy’s words, “landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth". This goal was achieved in July of 1969 during Apollo 11. The Apollo missions continued on into the early 70’s trying to achieve its goal of exploring the moon. To date the Apollo mission has landed 6 successful times on the moon up until 2007. The mission was named after the Greek God of the sun. It can be argued that the Apollo missions were some of NASA’s finest times during the 20th century. This mission was the United State’s reaction to Dwight Eisenhower’s Space Race. And later, Kennedy responded to this and that is when Apollo was started. There are several types of missions that had to be undertaken in order to achieve NASA’s goal: • Unmanned Command/Service Module (CSM) test • Unmanned Lunar Module (LM) test • Manned CSM in low Earth orbit • Manned CSM and LM in low Earth orbit • Manned CSM and LM in an elliptical Earth orbit with an apogee of 4600 mi (7400 km) • Manned CSM and LM in lunar orbit • Manned lunar landing All of these missions had to be completed in order, one after the other. In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Christopher Boone refers being happy to The Apollo Space Missions. He is learning how to read people’s facial expressions and the happy facial expression is how he is when he is reading about Apollo Missions. Apollo Space Missions can also be related to Curious because Chris wants to become an astronaut when he is older for a job. He thinks that he will be good at it because he can handle small spaces and to be in a space shuttle you have to live in small spaces. Also, his mother thinks that if he becomes an astronaut it will be his chance to lead a normal life and their problems will go away.