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How do we land on the moon? The Space Race & Artemis · Kids Learning Lab - Science, History, and Technology for Kids and Family

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  Welcome to Kids Learning Lab, a learning podcast made just for
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  kids. In this episode of Kids Learning
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  Lab, we're going to look about two things.
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  First, we'll learn about Apollo 11 and the Space Race.
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  Then we'll look at how the Rockets actually work and look
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  at Artemis 2. But before we Start learning
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  Now let's get to the episode. The space race began in the late
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  1950s when the United States and the Soviet Union were competing
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  to see who could achieve the most in space exploration.
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  The Soviet Union later became the country of Russia.
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  But why did they compete? Well, after World War 2, the
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  United States and the Soviet Union were two of the most
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  powerful countries in the world, but they had two different views
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  of how governments should work. the United States believed in
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  capitalism and the Soviet Union believed in communism.
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  They never fought each other, but they both competed in a
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  series of technological and military advancements and
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  eventually space. It was the main reason why they
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  competed in space. It wasn't for exploration, it
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  was to show who was the stronger country.
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  Because if you could launch a rocket to space, you could
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  theoretically launch a missile to the other country.
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  This is what started the space race.
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  So who launched the first rocket in the space race?
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  It was the Soviet Union. In 1957, they launched the
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  Sputnik satellite. It was a small metal ball that
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  orbited the Earth. the United States was surprised.
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  What else could the Soviet Union do if they could launch a
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  satellite? Then in 1961, the Soviets
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  launched Yuri Gagarin, the first human, into space.
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  He orbited the Earth successfully.
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  Then in that same year, John F Kennedy, the president of the
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  United States, decided to make a statement in Congress.
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  He said that we should be able to land a man on the moon before
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  1970. And that was how the United
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  States started their moon landing missions.
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  Project Apollo, the Department of NASA, was created just a few
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  years ago, and now they really needed to get to work to try to
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  land on the moon. But there were lots of failures
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  along the way. In 1967, a fire started in the
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  Apollo rocket during a test run. All three astronauts were
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  killed. But the United States did not
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  give up. But not everyone in the US liked
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  the space race. A lot of people opposed it.
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  Many African Americans opposed the moon landing, and many
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  called it a waste of tax money. People intentionally held
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  festivals to draw attention away from the moon landing.
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  Some believe that the moon landing was useless and the moon
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  was a barren wasteland, but Project Apollo continued.
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  Finally, on July 16th, 1969, Apollo 11 launched from the
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  Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Four days later, on July 20th,
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  1969, the lunar Lander called the Eagle separated from the
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  main spacecraft and begin descend onto the moon.
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  Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, stepped onto the
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  surface and said the following famous words.
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  That's one small step for man, 1 giant leap for.
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  Man Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spent two hours on the
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  surface collecting samples and planting a flag, as well as
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  taking photos. Over 600 million people watched
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  the event on live television, and that's how President
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  Kennedy's goal was accomplished. The space race still continued,
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  but died down. Apollo 12141516, and 17 all went
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  back to the moon for further research.
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  Apollo 13 is one of the most famous survival stories in
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  history, and there's a link in the description to learn about
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  And now let's continue with the episode.
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  Now, how do these rockets work? It seems impossible to launch a
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  building sized machine into the air, escape Earth's gravity, and
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  somehow land on another object in space.
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  But we did it. The rocket that got us to space
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  was called the Saturn Five. It was 363 feet tall, about as
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  tall as the 36 story skyscraper. But not all of the rocket went
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  to the moon. The rocket was separated into
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  stages. The first stage burned a huge
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  amount of fuel just to get the rocket off of the ground.
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  The first stage then fell off the rocket and dropped into the
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  ocean. The second stage was pushing the
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  rocket out of the atmosphere. It also detached and fell into
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  the ocean. The final third stage pushed the
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  astronauts to the moon. By letting go of all the stages.
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  They saved a ton of fuel because they didn't have to carry the
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  stages all the way to the moon. But Fast forward more than 50
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  years later, and NASA has started its Artemis missions,
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  trying to get people back to the moon.
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  The first Artemis mission, Artemis 1, launched in 2022 and
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  orbited the moon. It had no crew.
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  However, Artemis 2, the second mission, launched just a few
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  days ago with four crew members. They armed at the moon and
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  splashed down. Artemis 3 will be the next moon
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  mission in which the same 4 crew members will attempt to land on
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  the moon for the first time since 1972.
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  And now it's time for a short quiz #1 when did we land on the
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  moon? We landed on the Moon on July
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  20th 1969 #2 How tall was the Saturn 5?
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  The Saturn 5 was 363 feet tall. Question 3.
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  Which Apollo missions landed on the Moon?
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  6 Apollo missions landed. They were 1112141516 and 17.
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