1. journey to the moon

2. President of the United States, 1961
‘I believe that this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth’
John F Kennedy,
President of the United States, 1961

3. The place..
Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA
The time..
early evening
The date…
July
The launch..
Apollo 11
The mission…
To put a man on the moon
To escape from the gravity of the Earth, you need a massive force, you need to burn a huge amount of fuel in liquid oxygen.
Apollo used a 110m, 500 tonne rocket called Saturn 5

4. The crew…
Michael Collins
Neil Armstrong
Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin

6. The view from Apollo 11
45 seconds later!!!

7. In orbit..
Can you see England?

8. It took three days of flying through space to reach the moon
Neil Armstrong, 38 years old, knew he’d been chosen to be the first man on the moon…
…if the mission succeeded

9. 21 July 1969
The lunar module called the Eagle is dropped towards the surface of the moon

10. ‘this is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’
21 July 1969
live TV pictures
‘this is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’

13. Armstrong and Aldrin spent about two and a half hours on the moon, taking pictures, setting up experiments, and collecting samples of moon rock

14. Before they left the moon they were able to photograph the Earth, as it rose above the horizon.
Neither astronaut can remember who actually took this picture.
In 1999, the American magazine, Time, voted this picture as ‘the photographic image of the twentieth century’
The picture is called ‘Earthrise’

15. ‘Earthrise’
21 July 1969

16. Eagle returned safely to the command module
Michael Collins took this picture

17. Splashdown, near Hawaii, Pacific Ocean
24 July 1969
Perhaps the riskiest part was still to come
To re-enter Earth’s atmosphere at that speed produces a huge amount of FRICTION creating a huge amount of HEAT.
This nearly killed the astronauts of Apollo 13 a year later (did you see the film?)
But Apollo 11 made it safely back…

18. Hope you liked the pictures!
THE END
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