Did you believe they put a man on the moon

It was 38 years ago last summer that mankind embarked on one of the most difficult and exciting challenges in its long history when the united states completed a landing on the moon. In July of 1969, three men named Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins completed a mission that enthralled the planet full of people back home from which they came. The mission was a success but it came dangerously close to failure. Just months before the landing the commander of the mission Neil Armstrong was nearly Killed in a practice maneuver in preparation for the mission. One of the aircraft that he was piloting began to suffer some mechanical malfunctions and he ejected away to safety literally seconds before it exploded. During the mission itself when Armstrong was piloting the lunar module, he was hovering over the surface of the moon trying to find a spot on which to land that was free of any craters. This took a little bit longer than was anticipated and so when Armstrong finally landed the module on the surface he had only 7 seconds left of fuel. Had he not landed within that 7 second window the spacecraft would have lost power and crashed into the surface of the moon and the mission would have been lost.
There was a lot of controversy in the years prior to the mission itself with regard to the scientists who were building the rockets and preparing the mission. The rocket builders were dominated by scientists who came from germany. Many of them were captured by the american forces in Germany after the fall of the Nazis in the spring and early summer of 1945. Chief among them was a brilliant German Scientist named Werner Von Braun. He was Hitlers best rocket scientist during the war and he is responsible for coming up with a lot of scientific technological achievments. He came up with the V-2 rocket. This was a rocket that the Germans were launching at the City of london during the last year of world war two. It was basically the worlds first missile. It didnt require a pilot, It had wings and fins for stability in flight and it carried a dangerous payload of explosives for maximum destruction upon impact. There were some in the government who felt that such a person should not be involved in americas mission to land a man on the moon and wanted him removed from the project. These people were over ridden by superiors who felt that Von Braun's abilities as a scientist were so signifigant that it trumped his past with the nazis and he stayed on. It was in fact his rocket design that ended up being the vehicle that made it to the moon.