Moon+Landing+by+Neil+Armstrong+(1969)+group3

=Moon Landing=

Overview
== For many years the United States and the Soviet Union had been in a race to be the first ones to go to space. In 1957 the Soviet Union launched a successful satellite into space. Form then on the race was very intense. President Kennedy saw that the United States was falling behind the Soviet Union in technology. He urged scientists to try and land a person on the moon before the end of the century. This was in 1961.

Central Point
On July 16, 1969 the space ship Apollo 11 was launched from the Kennedy Space Center. Four days later the space shuttle landed on the moon. Neil Armstrong was the first man to step out onto the moon. His famous words he said when he touched it were, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." There was a camera on the moon that shot live footage and sent it back down to earth so everyone could watch it on television.

Conclusion
The astronauts were now walking on the moon. The United States of America was the first country ever to land a person on the moon. The gravity was much less than earth so the crew had to get used to it. They spent about two hours on the moons surface collecting rocks and soil. They also completed many tests to try and find out different things about the moon. An American flag was placed on the surface of the moon to indicate America's landing.