PDF-(DOWNLOAD)-Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11

For the 50th anniversary the epic story of Apollo 11 and the astronauts flight controllers and engineers who made it happen by the author of the bestselling A Terrible Glory and The Blood of HeroesOn July 20 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon a moment forever ingrained in history Perhaps the worlds greatest technological achievementand a triumph of American spirit and ingenuitythe Apollo 11 mission and the entire Apollo program was a mammoth undertaking involving more than 410000 men and women dedicated to putting a man on the Moon and winning the Space Race against the SovietsSeen through the eyes of the those who lived it Shoot for the Moon reveals the dangers the challenges and the sheer determination that defined not only Apollo 11 but also the Mercury and Gemini missions that made it possible Both sweeping and intimate and based on exhaustive research and dozens of fresh interviews bestselling author James Donovans Shoot for the Moon is the definitive and thrilling account of one of humankinds most extraordinary feats of exploration. Professor Martin Davies. Director, Tulane Maritime Law Center, New Orleans. Intertanko Tanker Chartering Seminar. Tokyo, 12 May 2009. Outline. Overlap/underlap – how long is the charter period?. Late redelivery. Who . were the two superpowers during the Cold War? . The United States and the USSR (. The Union of Soviet Socialist . Republics)/ Russia. After the end of World War Two, both of the states were winners but on the same time they were building up fear that their extraneous power would be used to attack each-other. So during, the Cold War everything was turned into a race and a in-direct battle between the U.S and Russia.. Quotes FROM . A Gift of Days:. The Greatest Words to Live By. Author: Stephen Alcorn. Atheneum, New York 2009. The Extraordinary in the Ordinary . (q. uote 1). “When you do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”. First time in space. First man in space – Yuri Gagarin (from Russia) in 1961. First American in space – Alan Shepard. Spacecraft = Freedom 7. First Chinese in space – Yang . Liwei. First American to orbit earth – John Glenn. dbednar@uwo.ca. Office: SSC 2410. Office hours: Thursdays after class or by appointment. What will be on Test 3?. Lectures 8,9 and 10. Anything written on the course website or said by a lecturer in class. Luke . 2:8-20. (pg. . . 992 . or . 1071). The ordinary people God uses. The extraordinary work God does. . The extraordinary person God gave. The ordinary response God expects. Prayer. The Sun. . . .. Which one is the biggest?. The Earth. Diameter of the Sun: 864,938 miles. Diameter of Earth: .  7,926 . miles. Diameter of the Moon: 2,160 miles. The Moon. How far away are the Sun and the Moon?. 20 July 1969. PERSPECTIVE. . READING. :. Outer Space and National Defense, . Lt Col Robert M. Riggs, US Army pr. 21-26, May 1959, . Volume XXIX, Number 2, Military Review. Brig Gen Homer A. . Boushey. A monkey is sitting in a tree. For some reason you want to shoot it. But it is an astute (cheeky, even) monkey and will let go of the branch he is swinging from at the same instant you shoot your gun or arrow or blowpipe or whatever weapon you use.. Achievement. Preamble. As you have hopefully gathered from being alive for 16-18 years, . in the 1950s and 60s, the United States and Soviet Union were locked in a testosterone-fueled competition. to prove which country was . You are given at the beginning of the year the global list of the vocabulary list of BON VOYAGE, study it each time we study a chapter before entering the clas. s. The following slides will help you practice . 1950’s – After the Cold War. United States and Soviet Union . (Russia & neighboring countries) . fought for world power. Whichever country had the technological advancements to get to the moon would win.. https://. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VvfTY-tVzI&safe=active. . On 16. th. July 1969 Apollo 11 set off from Florida USA on a mission to get to the moon. On board were Neil Armstrong aged 26 , Buzz Aldrin aged 22 and Michael Collins aged 28 they had all undergone extensive training . Apollo and Daphne, 2. nd. cent. AD, mosaic, from the House of . Dionysos. in . Paphos. , Cyprus. Piero del Pollaiuolo, . about 1441 - before 1496. Apollo and Daphne. , 1470-1480, oil on wood, 29.5 x 20 cm, The National Gallery, London.