***APOLLO MISSION***
ON MAY 25,1961 ,PRESIDENT JOHN F. KNNEDY ANNOUNCED THE GOAL OF SENDING ASTRONAUTS TO THE MOON BEFORE THE END OF THE DECADE . EIGHT YEARS OF HARDWORK BY THOUSAND OF AMERICANS CAME TO FRIUTION ON JULY 20,1959, WHEN APOLLO 11 COMMANDER NEIL ARMSTRONG STEEPED OUT OF THE LUNAR MODULE AND COOK "ONE SMALL STEP '" IN THE SEA OF TRANQUINITY CALLING IT "A GIANT FOR MANKIND "
IN DECEMBER 1968 APOLLO 8 WENT ALL THE WAX TO THE MOON WITHOUT LUNAR MODULE ; IT WAS THE FIRST MANNED FLIGHT OF THE MASSIVE SATURN V- ROCKET .
SIX OF THE MISSION - APOLLOS 11,12,13,14,15,16 AND 17 WENT ONTO LAND ON MOON STUDING SOIL MECHANISM ,METEROIDS ,SEISMIC HEAT FLOW , MAGANATIC FIELDS AND SOLAR WIND , APOLLOS 7AND 9 TESTED SPACECRAFT IN EARTHS ORBIT, APOLLO 10 ORBITED THE MOON AS THE DRESS REHEARSAL FOR THE FIRST LANDING , AN OXYGEN TANK EXPLOSION FORCED APOLLO -13 TO CANCEL ITS LAINDING.
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