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A Retrospective Analysis Of The Project Space Exploration: Apollo Missions

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I picked the “Space Exploration: Apollo missions” as the topic I wanted to learn more about, because outer space has always fascinated me. I found this article from Nasa.gov that was very insightful, Project Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis1. What was the motivation that led to the discovery? One major motivator was that the United States and the Soviet Union were competing with each other to see who could get to outer space first and then the moon. One article I read said this quote when referring to the fact that the Soviets had made it to outer space first, “Even though the United States is still the strongest military power and leads in many aspects of the space race the world--impressed by the spectacular Soviet firsts--believes we lag

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