3rd week -Mission Apollo-

Title: Mission Apollo

Author: Lewis Kerr

Publisher (level): Oxford Bookworms Factfiles (3.2)

Summary:
During the Second World War, Germans were building rockets. In 1945 the American, British and Russian army entered Germany. The Nazis wanted to destroy information about the rockets but Wernher von Braun, who is made the rockets, and his friends stole it and reached the American army. The Americans took him to America and the Russians took his friends to Moscow. Then both of them started to developing rockets.
In the beginning the Russians are in front because Eisenhower, the President of United States, was not interested in space. But President Kennedy came to the White House. He knew space was important and said “Americans will land on the moon before 1970.”
In the Gemini program the technology of rocket was so improved that astronauts could stay in space for over 300 hours. Then the Apollo program was started. But in 1967 three astronauts died in a fire in the Apollo space craft. However, in 1969 the space craft was safer than before and Armstrong and Collins, who are the astronauts, were succeeded in landing on the moon at July 20.
After that the Americans and the Russians were more interested in building space stations than in travelling to the moon. The new space craft was invented. People were excited when a man walked on the moon and became interested in space. (222 words)

Evaluation: 3 stars
I was disappointed when I saw the sentence “NASA wanted to put astronauts on the moon because it wanted money for other space programs.” Rationally thinking, I know that money is one of the factors if people take actions but it attacked my childish mind. I understood the way people growing up mentally. (53 words)