"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," said Neil Armstrong as he took his first steps on the moon during the NASA Apollo 11 expedition on moon. No man has ever been to the Moon before, and NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was the first to land someone on the Moon. NASA has made many great achievements in exploring the "new frontier" that has affected the United States since it was first created in July 1958. The idea for NASA was born when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite on October 4, 1957. The states started their own space travel program and began working on their own designs that would be better than those of the Soviet Union. All this began the great space race. It was a great competition between the Soviet Union and the United States to see who could learn and discover the most. The United States and the Soviet Union began building and sending satellites and spaceships. Then they tried to see who could make a suit and a ship that could allow a living being to go into space. They tested all the equipment with monkeys and dogs, seeing what would work. Many animals died in the process, but thanks to the results of their tests they were able to build suits and ships that allowed humans to go into space. Even though they were able to create these machines, that doesn't mean they didn't present difficulties and dangers. Two space shuttles crashed or exploded. There were many key factors that they had learned to address that led to the crash of those ships. They have made many discoveries and achievements, such as making the first astronauts walk on the moon. In May 1946, the Americans were able to remake their V-2s with t...... half of paper......ause it was the mission with which NASA managed to put the first man on the moon. Neil Armstrong was the pilot of the Apollo 11 flight. There was a special shuttle attached to the spacecraft; it was called the Eagle. The Eagle was designed to carry some crew members to the moon. Armstrong was responsible for guiding and landing the shuttle safely on the moon. During the journey to the moon, Armstrong realized that he was starting to run out of fuel. Luckily, Armstrong had enough to land on the moon and get back to the spaceship. When the Eagle first left the spacecraft in space, it was not fully depressurized so there was something of a gas bubble coming from the spacecraft as it was on its way to the moon. The gas bubble pushed the shuttle off course, and the Eagle actually landed four miles off course.