{"id":101,"date":"2026-05-07T20:58:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/rcortes\/?page_id=101"},"modified":"2026-05-07T20:58:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:58:43","slug":"moon-landing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/rcortes\/moon-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"MOON LANDING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Young&#039;s Lunar Salute on Apollo 16\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g5aPoRtF2vw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Escalations in the Cold War between the US and Soviet Union prompted President John F. Kennedy to charge NASA with landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth by the end of the 1960s and installed James E. Webb as NASA administrator to achieve this goal.[11] On May 25, 1961, Kennedy openly declared this goal in his &#8220;Urgent National Needs&#8221; speech to Congress, declaring: I believe this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite attacks on the goal of landing astronauts on the Moon from the former president Dwight Eisenhower and 1964 presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, President Kennedy was able to protect NASA&#8217;s growing budget, of which 50% went directly to human spaceflight and it was later estimated that, at its height, 5% of Americans worked on some aspect of the Apollo program.[4]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"505\" src=\"https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/rcortes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/nasa6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-102\" style=\"width:216px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/rcortes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/nasa6.jpg 500w, https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/rcortes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/nasa6-297x300.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mirroring the Department of Defense&#8217;s program management concept using redundant systems in building the first intercontinental ballistic missiles, NASA requested the Air Force assign Major General Samuel C. Phillips to the space agency where he would serve as the director of the Apollo program. Development of the Saturn V rocket was led by Wernher von Braun and his team at the Marshall Space Flight Center, derived from the Army Ballistic Missile Agency&#8217;s original Saturn I. The Apollo spacecraft was designed and built by North American Aviation, while the Apollo Lunar Module was designed and built by Grumman.[4]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escalations in the Cold War between the US and Soviet Union prompted President John F. Kennedy to charge NASA with landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth by the end of the 1960s and installed James E. Webb as NASA administrator to achieve this goal.[11] On May 25, 1961, Kennedy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/rcortes\/moon-landing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MOON LANDING<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-101","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/rcortes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/rcortes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/rcortes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/rcortes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/rcortes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/rcortes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/rcortes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infotec03.ghsvids.org\/rcortes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}