Apollo 11 Moon Landing
According to Science Focus, the United States was already falling behind the Soviet Union in the space race when President John F Kennedy delivered his well-known "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University on September 12, 1962. Kennedy gave an address in which he promised that the United States would land on the moon by the end of the decade in an effort to gain public and congressional support for increasing NASA's budget.
On July 16, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin were on board the Apollo 11 mission. The Lunar Module brought Aldrin and Armstrong to the moon four days later, on July 20. Together, they burned through 21 hours and 36 minutes on the outer layer of the World's moon (by means of NASA).
On July 24, Apollo 11 safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean with its three crew members. The U S Hornet, the recovery ship, picked them up. Humanity had finally accomplished something that only imagination could have imagined. It is estimated that 650 million people around the world watched this event live, a new record that would not be broken again until 1981, when Prince Charles married Lady Diana
Voyager I
Data transmission for several years is the primary outcome of some NASA missions. For decades, others have continued to provide scientists with information. Both Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, are certain to experience the latter. The primary objective of Voyager 1, which was launched on September 5, 1977, was to conduct flybys of Saturn and Jupiter and transmit images to Earth for research (via the solar system). This spacecraft left our solar system in August 2012 and is still moving through space more than 44 years later. It continues to transmit data to this day.
The "Golden Record", which can be found aboard Voyager 1, contains greetings from Earth in more than 55 languages to potential other-worldly beings. The record also includes images of Earth's inhabitants and recordings of music from Chuck Berry to Beethoven.
There have been numerous perceptions made by Explorer 1 that have helped map out our planetary group. The known composition of the bodies that revolve around our sun has been altered by the discoveries of five newly observed moons of Saturn, a thin ring around Jupiter, and two additional moons of Jupiter
Hubble Space Telescope
In 1990, it was discovered that astronomical telescopes could not capture images as detailed as they could. The space shuttle Discovery carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit on April 24 of that same year. For more than 30 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has been orbiting the Earth at a height of more than 300 miles above the planet's surface and sending images back to Earth.
Through these images, the Hubble Space Telescope has been able to convey to Earth's inhabitants not only the beauty but also the vastness of the worlds beyond our comprehension. "No matter what Hubble reveals—planets, dense star fields, colorful interstellar nebulae, deadly black holes, graceful colliding galaxies, the large-scale structure of the Universe—each image establishes your own private vista on the cosmos", Hayden Planetarium director Neil Tyson jokingly stated. The space telescope is able to continue functioning in part due to a variety of servicing missions that keep it up to date and In 2009, the most recent maintenance mission was completed
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