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The Apollo Missions: The Man On The Moon
The Apollo Missions was a test on mans’ limit and use of the knowledge that God gave us to see if we could land on the moon. Rushed by the Cold War, Scientist were antsy to get a manned rocket from this plant to our neighbor, the Moon. Many people look at it as the event of “the man on the moon”. I looked up more of the scientific discoveries that were made on those early missions and they were surprising to say the least!

One of the questions posed by many scientists was what type of geological make up is the moon made up of? They discovered that most of the moon was made up of, in fact, high temperature rocks such as Basalts, Breccias, and Anorthosites. This means that the moon had to have had been formed with some solar activity. This helped

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