"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's Apollo 11 expedition to the 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 have affected the United States since its establishment in July 1958. The idea of ​​NASA began when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite on October 4, 1957. States launched their own space travel program and began working on their own projects that would be better than those of the Soviet Union. All this started the great space race. It was a great race 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 spacecraft. Next, they tried to see who could make a suit and a ship capable of allowing a living being to go up into space. They tested all the equipment with monkeys and dogs, to see what would work. Many animals died in the process, but with the results of their tests, they were able to build suits and ships that allowed humans to travel through space. Even though they were able to create these machines, that doesn't mean they didn't experience difficulties and dangers. Two space shuttles crashed or exploded. They had learned to address many of the key factors that caused these ships to crash. They made many discoveries and achievements, such as walking the first astronauts on the moon. In May 1946, the Americans were able to remake their own V-2s with...... middle of paper ......ause It was thanks to this mission that NASA was able to send the first man to the Moon . Neil Armstrong was the pilot of Apollo 11. There was a special shuttle attached to the spacecraft; he was called the Eagle. The Eagle was designed to carry select crew members to the Moon. Armstrong was responsible for piloting and landing the shuttle safely to the moon. As he headed toward the Moon, Armstrong realized he was starting to run out of fuel. Fortunately, Armstrong had enough to land on the moon and return to the spaceship. When the Eagle first left the spacecraft in space, it was not completely depressurized, so there was something of a gas bubble coming from the shuttle as it headed toward the moon . The gas bubble knocked the shuttle off course and the Eagle landed four miles off course..