Man in Space Vs Man on the Moon - A Comparison
Space flight and the manned moon landing are two of the biggest scientific achievements of mankind. However, the moon landing has had a shroud of suspicion around it for many years, with people calling it a hoax and conspiracy theorists analyzing every microscopic detail of man’s first steps on the moon to try to establish that it never happened. Whatever the truth regarding the moon landing be, it is definitely one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind that I have always struggled to comprehend….. Let me take you through the facts as we know, and explain why I find it hard to digest…… The first manned space flight took place in 1961 when Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited the earth. The moon landing took place, just a few years later, in 1969, when supposedly Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, walked around the surface of the moon and returned safely back to earth. The US had six crewed moon landings in quick succession from 1969 to 1972, but none sin