THE APOLLO PROGRAM

The Apollo Program (1963 - 1972) "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for a mankind." The national effort that enabled Astronaut Neil Armstrong to speak those words as he stepped onto the lunar surface, and fulfilled a dream as old as humanity. But Project Apollo's goals went beyond landing Americans on the Moon and returning them safely to Earth. Some of the main goals of this experiment were: to establish the technology to …

…'s and present day, some 30,000 inventions have been conceived, spawned, nurtured and developed in one way or another as a direct result of space exploration. Telecommunications, medical research, computer technology, agriculture, weather analysis forecasting and dozens of other industries have profited via the catalyst of space exploration. Not a lot of people would notice this, but every facet of life on Earth has been dramatically affected by what we've learned from the study of space.