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BUZZ ALDRIN RACE INTO SPACE TIPS FULL

The 2004 Vision for Space Exploration calls for a return to the moon to establish operational bases, and human missions to Mars. America will have no direct access to the $100 billion investment in the International Space Station. This transition may result in a “gap” period of five years or more when America will have no spacecraft to fly its astronauts into space. Space advocacy efforts are needed more than ever as NASA faces a critical crossroads in its transition from the Shuttle program to the next generation rockets and spacecrafts in the face of dwindling Congressional budgetary support. Perhaps most importantly and of greatest alarm, America’s leadership in space is at risk.Discovery of other worlds brings mankind together with that intangible priceless effect of touching our capacity for wonder.Space discovery, of the magnitude of the Apollo moon landings, inspires our youth towards math and science.Exploration can open the final frontier to citizen explorers and spark an industry of space tourism.

Investment in space leads to global leadership, economic competitiveness and technological spin-offs.

Investment in reusable rockets and spacecraft will take us back to the Moon and put humans on Mars.

America’s inspiration in Apollo to reach the Moon can be reawakened.

Since returning from the moon, Buzz has turned his unstoppable energy to advocating for America’s role as the world’s leader in human space exploration. For the first time in the history of the world, mankind set foot upon another planetary surface.īuzz Aldrin is an integral part of that journey. On Jthe giant Saturn V rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying the Apollo 11 crew, and four days later on July 20th the “Eagle” touched down on the crater-marked lunar landscape. NASA’s engineers, the aerospace industry and teams of thousands across the country, along with Congressional support and the president’s leadership, developed the rockets and trained the astronauts to reach the moon. Kennedy boldly committed America to landing a man on the moon before the end of the decade. Just three weeks later on May 25th, President John F. The US reacted and sent its first astronaut, Alan Shepard, into space for a 15-minute suborbital flight on May 5, 1961.

BUZZ ALDRIN RACE INTO SPACE TIPS FULL

This race started amidst the Cold War when the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957 and sent the first human into space, Yuri Gagarin, for one full orbit around the Earth on April 12, 1961. America’s space program leads the world – primarily due to winning the ‘space race’ of the 1960’s with the Soviet Union.