Kennedy’s $24 billion of investment did work, and Apollo 11 achieved Kennedy’s goal by landing on the moon on 20 July 1969.
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The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the iconic Blue Marble photograph of the earth.
The Prospero satellite was launched, making it the first and only British satellite to be launched using a British rocket.
On the 20th July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin successfully landed the Eagle, the Lunar Module of Apollo 11, on the surface of the moon.
Telstar’s first broadcast involved relaying an image of a flag outside its base station at Andover Earth Station to the Pleumeur-Bodou earth station in France.
The resulting emergency led to the calm announcement by the crew of, ‘Houston we’ve had a problem’.
Laika was never intended to return to Earth as the technology to re-enter the atmosphere had not yet been developed.
Wernher von Braun initially developed rockets for the United States Army, but was later made director of the Marshall Space Flight Center where he oversaw the design of the Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon.
The flight lasted for 15 minutes and 22 seconds and reached a maximum altitude of 116 miles before returning to earth for splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean.
Shortly after midnight in Moscow, the Soviets became the first to successfully send a human-made object to the Moon.
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