I will take a day off today and will not update it. I will update it on time at 8 o'clock tomorrow. So here is a good article about the moon landing, pretending that I have updated it...

Title: Humans have been on the moon for 50 years, looking up and forgotten

Original: 8-character intersection

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In the last century, a song made Queens band:

This song is "Killerqueen".

She stored Moet and Chanpin in that beautiful cupboard

She said: "Let them eat the cake!"

Like Queen Mary Anthony

Give Khrushchev and Kennedy a sedative

...

This song made Queens famous overnight.

It sings the true psychological state of ordinary people during the Cold War period.

Since the United States dropped two atomic bombs in Japan, humans have entered a period of nuclear terror.

During the peak of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were eyeing each with tens of thousands of nuclear weapons, which could destroy the earth thousands of times.

This will be the first time in human history that there will be no victories.

Even if one side completely destroys the other without any damage, it will not survive the coming nuclear winter.

The representative figures of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union - US President Kennedy and Soviet leader Khrushchev became the two most stressed and most watched people in the world.

The New York Times published a cartoon, which appeared in Chinese middle school history books several years later: Kennedy and Khrushchev each stretched out one hand and were struggling to wrestle with each other, while the other hand was pressing the nuclear button on each other.

All humans stared at their hands, hoping to give them a tranquilizer.

The White House once received a letter signed by "a citizen who is deeply worried."

Dear Mr. President:

I was deeply worried that the Soviet Union might attack the United States and that would destroy our country, so I designed a moon bomb that would save us.

I suggest that we build a huge rocket with a payload of a very long steel cable fixed at one end to the earth.

Then we fired rockets to the moon, and the steel cables followed it up with it.

When the rocket lands on the moon, a robot will fix the other end of the steel cable to the moon. As the earth rotates, the steel cable will pull the moon over; as long as the time is calculated properly, the moon will smash the Soviet Union.

The moon, this celestial body that once shines on all life on the earth, has become a symbol that embodies human fear and imagination.

Against this background, humans climbed the moon on July 20, 1969.

The Cold War is the biggest driving force.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of human lunar landing.

50 years passed by, and the Cold War has long become history. It is hard to say how much progress has been made by mankind.

We still live in doubt, fear and distrust.

And many of those who have been looked up to have been forgotten.

01

Under the dark clouds of nuclear war, the Soviet Union not only sent a dog and a man to space with rockets before the United States, but also sent a probe to the vicinity of the moon.

The meaning of this action is that I won’t hit you now, but my rocket can fly into space and have the ability to beat you at any time. What are you looking at?

But the United States can only grit its teeth and endure it, and can't say a word to see what you are doing.

At this time, the United States did not succeed in sending a satellite to the sky. It launched several rockets and exploded one after another.

The people were disappointed and the allies were talking.

The problem was pushed into Kennedy's hands.

One thing must be done to restore confidence in the country.

Kennedy, 44, is the youngest president in the history of the United States. He is handsome and known as the dream lover of women all over the world.

His family is one of the top major families in the United States. His father, Kennedy, once helped a man run for president successfully, and his man was named Franklin Roosevelt.

As a result, just a few days after he went on stage, he was slapped loudly by the old-fashioned Khrushchev.

Kennedy could not swallow this tone and set a small goal for the American people: to send people to the moon within ten years.

The moon landing plan "Apollo Project" was released.

Why did you name the moon landing plan after the name of the Sun God? It was just because the director of the Nasa (NASA) at that time had a sudden idea:

Humans travel to the moon like the sun god Apollo driving a chariot across the sun, which sounds magnificent and grand.

According to the plan, the moon landing will be divided into three steps.

The first step is called the Mercury Project, mature and master the ability to send astronauts to heaven; the second step is called the Gemini Project, which sends probes and spacecraft near the moon; the third step is to achieve the Apollo Project to finally land on the moon.

Since Galileo used a telescope to observe the crater on the moon, humans have not made much progress in their understanding of the moon over the past few hundred years.

At that time, the United States was an anti-intellectual society (in fact, it is almost the same now).

When the moon landing plan was proposed, various rumors from the American people immediately came:

The spacecraft would fall into the dust pile on the moon, and the astronauts would be buried alive before they even came out;

There are terrifying underground creatures hidden under the moon, waiting for the astronauts sent from the earth to be eaten as jam pudding;

Moon landing may bring about alien viruses, and all humans will become extinct after infection...

Opportunities always belong to those who are prepared. The president proposes a plan to land on the moon, and naturally, Nasa has to make a budget.

At that time, the United States spent about $600 million on space every year. An adviser suggested that the director should make a smaller budget so that it would be easier to pass.

The director waved his hand: No! You don’t understand!

He made an eight-year, $20 billion plan and successfully approved it.

As it turns out, the director is still too conservative.

In a speech in 1962, Kennedy officially announced the moon landing plan.

The speech mentioned that that year, the United States spent $5.4 billion on space.

He quickly added:

The amount is staggering, but it still doesn't exceed the annual spending of Americans on cigarettes and cigars.

After spending so much money, Kennedy certainly wanted to eat more fish.

When the moon landing plan was formulated, the American black civil rights movement was in turmoil. Leader Martin Luther King later won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kennedy instructed Nasa: Selecting several black astronauts can not only encourage black people to receive higher education, but also alleviate racial conflicts within American society.

Of course, the reason for the black people's rights movement is that the rights of black people are indeed suppressed.

There were fewer blacks in the army and even fewer pilots. Dozens of white pilots were quickly selected as candidates, while Nasa went through hardships to select only one black Air Force colonel.

Unfortunately, the black colonel was killed in a training accident.

During that decade, as many as 10 American astronauts died in training.

For example, the Apollo 1 spacecraft experimental compartment had a short circuit and caught fire during the simulation experiment, igniting the pure oxygen used in the cabin. The cabin door failed to open in time, and the three astronauts suffocated and burned to death in just over a dozen seconds.

The subsequent accident investigation report pointed out that the Apollo 1 spacecraft had more than 5,000 safety problems and needed more than 1,300 technical improvements and research.

In the following years, the United States was checking for hidden dangers and solving technical problems. Hundreds of thousands of people worked overtime all year round to the goal of landing the moon.

On the 7th, 8th, and 9th... It was not until the Apollo 10th trial was put into the lunar module that the moon landing was vaguely seen a little dawn.

At this time, Khrushchev had already stepped down in the Soviet court coup. President Kennedy became an old friend.

He was assassinated less than two years after the speech announcing the moon landing plan.

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On Wednesday, July 16, 1969, more than one million people gathered at the Kennedy Space Center in the Florida Peninsula.

This place was originally called Cape Canaveral launch site. After President Kennedy was assassinated, he was renamed to commemorate him.

This day was chosen mainly because the moon was running to a perigee.

Perigee means that the distance to the earth is only 363,300 kilometers, saving as much fuel as possible. This distance is close to the limit of rocket thrust.

And just on this day, the angle between the sun and the moon reached its best state, and astronauts could be affected as little as possible by solar radiation.

The launch site was chosen to establish here mainly because it is the place closest to the equator in the United States. To put it bluntly, it is the belt part of the earth.

Launching rockets in this part can maximize the use of the earth's rotation to increase speed, allowing the earth to throw the rocket out, and also save fuel.

The nearby hotels, highways, waterways and rivers are filled with more than 350,000 cars and boats. More people are guarding the TV. More than 2,000 journalists are sent from various countries.

In San Francisco, a Chinese woman named Eileen Chang said that a human was on the moon and broadcast a live TV. She hurried to buy a TV, but because she was just a new arrival, she bought the street sign as a bus stop and was exposed to the sun for a day without waiting for the bus.
To be continued...