Apollo- The First Moon Mission in the World
The first mission by NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) which made people from Earth step their feet on the moon's surface was the Apollo Space Mission. Having a safe land on the moon was not something very easy to be imagined in the 1960s but the brilliant minds at NASA made it not just imaginable but also possible. Overview After an American astronaut reached space, on 25 May 1961, President John F. Kennedy addressed a session and talked about working on a program which should aim to reach the moon. The astronauts at NASA obliged it and on 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first person ever to walk on the surface of the moon as a part of the Apollo mission. The Apollo program concluded in 1972 with Apollo 17, involving a total expenditure of approximately $257 billion in 2020 dollars and engaging up to 400,000 Americans at its peak. The missions brought back 382 kilograms of lunar rocks, core samples, and regolith from the Moon's surface. Analysis o...