Download History for Kids: Apollo 11 and the First Moon Landing AudioBook Free
"10, 9, ignition collection start, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, zero. All machines running. Liftoff! We have a liftoff! Thirty-two minutes at night hour. Liftoff on Apollo 11!" (Jack port King, NASA Chief of Consumer Information) At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, time stands still across the world, as hundreds converge on the Kennedy Space Centre and millions tune in on live television set. At that instant, the first rumbles started to shake the bottom as a little spacecraft attached to a huge Saturn V rocket several hundred toes tall starts to lift off. Quickly being propelled several thousand miles per hour, it takes only a few minutes to attain a swiftness of 15,000 mls per hour, and only a few more minutes to type in orbit at 18,000 mls per hour. Apollo 11 is on its way to a traditional first landing on the Moon. Apollo 11's trip to the Moon may have began on that day in 1969, but the journey started over a decade earlier as part of the space race between your United States and the Soviet Union. While landing on the Moon was a noble goal, proposed as early as 1961 by President Kennedy, NASA and the nation all together relocated with urgency simply to best the Soviet Union, which got spent the 1950s beating America to important space-related firsts, including starting the first satellite television and the first cosmonaut in orbit. In fact, President Eisenhower's supervision began the design for the Apollo program in 1960 hoping to getting a head begin to the Moon. The plans originated each year prior to the first Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, orbited the Earth and 2 yrs before John Glenn did. Over the next ten years, NASA would spend tens of billions on the Apollo missions, the priciest peacetime program in American history compared to that point. Apollo 11 was only one of almost 20 Apollo missions.
