"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. The President weighed his options and, under the advisement of his cabinet, announced a new directive for the national space effort: America desperately needed to do something big in order to catch up. Before America could even launch its first astronaut the Soviets managed to put Yuri Gagarin into space-and into orbit, no less. They launched the first animals into orbit, they launched the first probes to the Moon. When America announced its intentions to launch the first satellite into orbit, the Soviets expedited their own plans and launched Sputnik. At this point in time the Soviet Union holds a prominent lead over the US in spaceflight. Kennedy prepares to make an announcement before Congress as to his ambitions for the United States in the ongoing Space Race. Downloads and flight instructions for each individual craft are featured further down the page. In the meantime, check out the spoilers below! They contain a bit of info about the launch history of the Apollo program, utilizing screenshots of every rocket and mission I've built so far. Currently this page features all of the Saturn I, Saturn IB, and Saturn V flights minus Apollo 13, Skylab, and ASTP. If I have the time I'd also like to include the Little Joe II and LLRV missions, but we'll just have to see how things pan out. To this day the accomplishment of the Apollo program still stands as one of mankind's greatest achievements.īelow are a collection of stock+DLC replicas I've built to represent the various rockets, spacecraft, and mission profiles that comprised the Apollo program-from its first test launches in 1961 to the very last flight of Apollo hardware in 1975. At the time it was considered to be one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken by either side during the Space Race. You know it, we all love it: the legendary space program that put man on the Moon.
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