Why Did Congress Cut Funding To The Apollo Program? Probably the biggest reason for Apollo’s decline was the detente in American-Soviet relations. In 1961, amid cold war animosities, the United States was trailing the Soviet Union in the world’s most widely publicized form of competition, manned spaceflight. Why was the Apollo program shut down? Several
What Was The Woman Astronaut That Died In Space? Christa McAuliffe Died January 28, 1986 (aged 37) Cape Canaveral, Florida, US Nationality American Alma mater Framingham State, B.S. 1970 Bowie State, M.Ed. 1978 Occupation Teacher, Astronaut Who was the female astronaut killed? 35 years after Challenger tragedy, nation remembers Christa McAuliffe – the first US
How Do Astronauts Return To Earth From The Moon? The astronauts used Eagle’s ascent stage to lift off from the lunar surface and rejoin Collins in the command module. They jettisoned Eagle before they performed the maneuvers that propelled Columbia out of the last of its 30 lunar orbits onto a trajectory back to Earth.