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    The Last Men to Walk on the Moon: The Story Behind America's Last Walk On the Moon
    The Last Men to Walk on the Moon: The Story Behind America's Last Walk On the Moon
    The Last Men to Walk on the Moon: The Story Behind America's Last Walk On the Moon
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    The Last Men to Walk on the Moon: The Story Behind America's Last Walk On the Moon

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    The amount of attention focused on Apollo 11 was enormous. Sending a man to the Moon was not simply an American achievement, but an achievement for the entire world.

    By Apollo 17, the space race was over and the fascination with the Apollo mission was not as great. Though the mission is not the most covered mission, it is one of the most important—what its experiments proved paved the way for space missions to come.

    HistoryCaps is an imprint of BookCaps Study Guides. With each book, a brief period of history is recapped. We publish a wide array of topics (from baseball and music to science and philosophy), so check our growing catalogue regularly to see our newest books.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookCaps
    Release dateFeb 25, 2013
    ISBN9781301012657
    The Last Men to Walk on the Moon: The Story Behind America's Last Walk On the Moon

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      The Last Men to Walk on the Moon - HistoryCaps

      HistoryCaps Presents:

      The Last Men to Walk On the Moon:

      The Story Behind America’s Last Walk On the Moon

      By Howard Brinkley

      By BookCaps Study Guides/Golgotha Press

      © 2011 by Golgotha Press, Inc.

      Published at SmashWords

      About HistoryCaps

      HistoryCaps is an imprint of BookCaps™ Study Guides. With each book, a brief period of history is recapped. We publish a wide array of topics (from baseball and music to science and philosophy), so check our growing catalogue regularly (www.bookcaps.com) to see our newest books.

      Chapter 1: The History of Apollo

      The goal of the Apollo space program was straightforward: send humans to the Moon and bring them back to Earth safely again. The very idea that man should explore the Moon had as much to do with politics as it did with science: the Russians had already launched Yuri Gagarin into space and, in the Cold War era, the space race filled in for actual warfare. However, if John F. Kennedy had been alive as the race to the Moon began to take off, it may have not been a race at all. The United States may have partnered with the Soviet Union rather than competed with it.

      Kennedy was certainly giving the matter some serious consideration after the Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved. He suggested a partnership to Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev after announcing the creation of Apollo in May 1961, but Khrushchev was not interested. Kennedy did not give up on the idea and said as much in a speech at the United Nations in the fall of 1963, just two months before he was assassinated. Why? For one thing, the space program was extremely expensive and what better way to defray costs than to share them? Kennedy also was not so sure that the U.S. could win the space race. The idea of a joint venture could have potentially gone a long way toward diplomatic relations with the Soviets.

      Lyndon Johnson had other ideas, though. Even before he was sworn in as president and then won the 1964 election in a landslide, Johnson was a key player in the space program. As a senator representing the state of Texas, he chaired the Special Committee on Space and Aeronautics and led the push to pass the act that created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). When he became president, he was intent on winning the space race, not linking arms with the Soviets and crossing the finish line together. The focus of Apollo became getting a man to the Moon before the Russians did and fulfilling Kennedy’s 1961 pledge to see it done before the end of the decade.

      The Beginning of the Apollo Program

      Deciding to go to the Moon was not as easy as simply firing up a spacecraft and lifting off into space. An important decision that was made early on was determining how the landing would be accomplished. There were four options for landing on the Moon’s surface, including blasting a mammoth rocket into orbit and landing that rocket

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