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Space Exploration: Apollo Explorations

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Out of the selected choices we had to choose from I decided to research were the Space Exploration: Apollo missions. My motivation for this is that I’ve always been interested in outer space and when of my favorite shows on TV is called ancient aliens and it’s about pretty much ancient civilization being visited by other worldly astronauts or aliens.

The motivation that lead to space exploration in the United States was born out of the Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950’s. The United States that the Soviet Union was building rockets but in actuality they were sending satellites the first being Sputnik. On April 12, 1961, Russian Lt. Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth and

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