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Narrative Essay On Journey To The Moon

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When I was a fifth grader at Sunny Brae Elementary school in Southern California, I used to love going to the library and devour anything about rockets and astronauts. One book was titled Journey to The Moon and though it was rather old and outdated I was still fascinated by the primitive sketches of a bug-shaped moon lander that was envisioned by NASA. I often imagined myself sitting in the command module atop a Saturn V and blasting off from Cape Canaveral. I bombarded everyone who would listen with daily updates about the space program and though I was only eleven, I could tell you how many pounds of thrust the Rocketdyne F1 engine produced on the Apollo Saturn main stage booster or which watches and cameras the astronauts used. I even knew …show more content…

Not only was it a monumental moment for mankind, I think millions of people around the world searched inward that day realizing what a miracle it was to have been born at such an epic time in history. For me, there was probably a deeper satisfaction than most people because I had followed America's space program more closely than any of my family, friends or relatives. Though I could not imagine anything as impressive as a moon landing, that's exactly what happened on July 3, 2004 when I shook hands with the man who was …show more content…

Buzz shared his story about Neil Armstrong accidentally breaking the lunar lander's engine arming switch when he exited the lunar module which meant the astronauts would have been unable to lift off from the moon. I thought to myself, how morbidly comical that would have been after the United States spent a trillion dollars to get to the moon only to fail because of a cheap plastic part. Fortunately for the astronauts and the world, the problem was solved after Neil shoved a felt tip marker pen into the breaker allowing Buzz to trigger the Lunar Module Ascent Engine to lift the astronauts to safety. Though Aldrin kept the pen as a souvenir, he felt that NASA should have awarded a small piece of moon rock to all of the astronauts who made the

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