ICT Role in 21st Century Education & its Challenges.pptx
It Ends With Nine Steps
1. It Ends With Nine Steps
Essential Questions:
1. What was Sputnik?
2. Who was Yuri Gagarin?
3. What was Project Mercury?
4. What was Project Gemini?
5. What was the Apollo Program?
6. Why was Apollo 11 important?
2. Sputnik and the Russians
Sputnik program was a series of
robotic spacecraft missions
launched by the Soviet Union
Sputnik 1, was the first human-
made object to orbit the Earth
Took place on October 4, 1957
The surprise launch of Sputnik 1
shocked the United States
April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin
became the first human to travel
into space
Launched to orbit aboard Vostok 1
3. America’s Turn
Project Mercury, initiated in
1958, started NASA down the path of
human space exploration
Designed to discover simply if man could
survive in space
Launched on May 5, 1961
The Mercury capsule was named
Freedom 7
Performed a suborbital flight piloted by
astronaut Alan Shepard
First American in space
Flight lasted less than 16 minutes
Unlike the earlier Soviet Vostok 1
flight, Sheppard did not orbit the earth
Simply went up and then down
4. Round and Round We Go
Part of Project Mercury
Spacecraft was named
Friendship 7
Piloted by astronaut John
Glenn
Made three earth orbits
Glenn became the first
American to orbit the Earth
5. Project Gemini
Project Gemini was initiated
to conduct experiments
Also to work out issues
relating to a moon mission
Gemini 3 was the first Gemini
flight with astronauts on
board
Nine missions followed and
showed:
Long-duration human space
flight was possible
Rendezvous and docking in
space was possible
6. Apollo 11
Apollo 11 mission was the first
manned mission to land on the
Moon
Launched on July 16, 1969
Commander Neil Alden Armstrong
Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene
'Buzz' Aldrin
Command Module Pilot Michael
Collins
On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin
became the first humans to land on
the Moon
The mission fulfilled President
John F. Kennedy's goal of reaching
the moon by the end of the 1960s
7. Launch and Lunar Landing
Apollo 11 Lands on Moon (5:00)
Millions watched the event on
television
President Richard Nixon
viewed the events from the
Oval Office
Buzz Aldrin spoke the first
words from the LM on the
lunar surface
Armstrong said the famous
words, quot;Houston, Tranquility
Base here. The Eagle has
landed.”
8. On the Lunar Surface
Nixon Talks to Apollo 11 (1:30)
July 20, 1969, Armstrong made his
descent down the nine rungs of the
LM ladder
quot;That's one small step for [a]
man, one giant leap for
mankind” (Armstrong On Moon)
Astronauts planted a flag on the
lunar surface and then spoke with
Nixon
Nixon originally had a long speech
prepared to read during the phone
call
NASA liaison convinced Nixon to
keep his words brief
He said to do this out of respect
Lunar landing was Kennedy's
legacy