American spaceship Apollo 11 reaches the moon
20 July 1969,
American spacecraft Apollo 11 reached the Moon. When news like the conquest of Yuri Gagarin shocked the world, U.S. President Kennedy wanted to “win” the Russians, regardless of the scientific use of expeditions or coasts, and they decided and made public the arrival on the moon in a decade.
When Kennedy was killed, in EE.UU. It was something that had to be done in the memory of the former president, even though, along with the war in Vietnam, it was taking huge economic resources away from him to deal with poverty in the country.
In the end, with the rhetoric of Neil Amstrong, “a giant step for humanity” appeared, although its only objective is propaganda. Vehicles without people were already better instruments for scientific inspection from space.
Source:
Josep Fontana, For the Sake of Empire (Editorial Past and Present).
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