Name: アポロ計画は悪い考えだった？| アポロ計画は悪い考えだったのか？ (Was the Apollo Program a Bad Idea? | A SciShow Documentary)
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Hank: Thanks to Hack The Moon for sponsoring this very special episode of

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SciShow. Go to wehackthemoon.com to learn even more about the Apollo 11 mission.

Almost 50 years ago on July 20th, 1969, space exploration changed forever.

That day the United States landed the first astronauts on the moon as part of

And with that famous one small step, they changed the way we think about our planet

Apollo 11 wasn't the first time humans had been to space or anything, that happened

in 1961 with a Soviet flight followed shortly by an American one.

But space, we didn't even really know what that was until fairly recently.

The moon, on the other hand, we've been staring at since we existed.

Watching it wander through the sky, chasing or being chased by the Sun, moving

It is another world -- one that has profound effects on our world and also on

There's never been a time in human history when we did not gaze at the moon and

And sending people to walk on the surface of another world --the enormity of that

giant leap-- It's something that changed us, something that has inspired us as

So we wanted to do something special to celebrate.

We wanted to ask a pretty bold question because while the whole SciShow team loves

Apollo, we couldn't help but wonder--and we hope you won't get too mad at us if we

Many people remember it as this beautiful thing that united the world, but if you

really think about it, it kind of seems like..

Only five years passed between when the Soviet Union flung the first satellite

President Kennedy: "We choose to go to the Moon.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things.

Not because they are easy but because they are hard."

Hank: A year after that Kennedy was dead and only six years later Neil Armstrong

and Buzz Aldrin were standing on another world.

In hindsight this looks like a work of genius, but lives were lost and other

And if that happened, how far back with those tragedies have pushed space

Ultimately was the risk worth the reward and how many close calls were there,

These are big questions and ones that you can spend a lot of time thinking about but

Sitting around in wondering isn't really our thing.

So we decided to get to the bottom of it.

Hank: We realized we weren't gonna get to the bottom of this by looking at

And to talk to experts, we have Alexis who has gone all over America to talk to those people.

Alexis: Yeah, honestly, I think a really good place to start with this is just to

If you want to understand why the Apollo program happened, it's important to

understand that the political climate of the 1950s and 60s.

During this time the United States and the Soviet Union were in the middle of the

Cold War which was essentially the showdown between two ideologies.

You had the Soviet Union and communism on one hand and the US and capitalism on the

And during this conflict, space became a battleground for these two superpowers to

Initially, the Soviet Union was actually winning this race.

And in the US, people were concerned that these achievements would cause the public

to believe that communism was the better option which the US was just not okay with.

Ultimately the United States wanted to be the first to send someone to the Moon to

And the Soviet Union wanted to do it to prove the same thing about communism.

So even if most people today remember Apollo as a primarily scientific program, it wasn't.

In the beginning, it was mainly about proving a political point.

Margaret Weitekamp: The Apollo program came with a lot of risk, political risk.

This was a big gamble on a large technology program that was funded and

started because they wanted to be able to show it to the world.

Brady Haran: The other thing a lot of people would say is we only did it because

of politics and the Cold War and a stick it up the Russians and cuz there was this

But like I see absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Like, that is just the circumstances that it took.

The technology had to be in the right place and the political climate, the

economic climate all had to align in this very unique way and that's what happened

and I don't see anything wrong with that.

Yes, Apollo was only made possible because of this unique set of circumstances in

this competitive political climate that was created, but you know, I don't think

I just think we should kind of be a little bit grateful that it happened because if

that if that circumstance hadn't happened, we probably --you're right -- we probably

There probably wouldn't have been the will to spend that much money and do that.

Noah Petro: Apollo scientifically started where science had to fit into the corners

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