Astronomy comes from the Greek word ἀστρονομίa, which means a natural science that studies phenomenal methods, peculiar celestial bodies, planets and nebulas .... etc. And in case you don't know, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration aka NASA that we know today was founded by the American Army General and the 35th president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower. The love of discovery got NASA’s crew members eagerly inquisitive about the outer space and how things worked all together. NASA's first human spaceflight program was Project Mercury, an ambitious project launched in 1958, as the first human to fly to space was the soviet cosmonaut Yurie Gagrien, who orbited the earth on 12 April on 1961 in a Vostok spacecraft. As around a month later on May 5, 1961, the first American to go to space was Alan Shepard Jr. Followed by a few weeks, the President John F. Kennedy’s obvious intentions about sending a man on the moon at the end of the decade became crystal clear and the challenge referred to the birth of NASA's Gemini and Apollo missions.
The moon. The moon is known to be the darkest place up in the space but you always happen to see it in grey colour. That grey colour you see comes from the surface of the Moon which is mostly oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron, calcium and aluminium.
On July 16,1969, 50 years ago, Apollo 11 was officially blasted off carrying the astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. Focusing on getting their national mission ordered by the president John F. Kennedy done, their journey to space took 4 days long and had them landed on the moon in the lunar module with the name of “eagle” on July 20 and since then Neil Armstrong was famous for being the first human to step on the moon’s surface and the one following him was Buzz Aldrin, then they all returned safely home on July 24, 1969.
