The first step I wanted to take in this project is to familiarise myself with the prescribed content. This is imperative to create a well considered response to the brief. I went through the narrative content and started annotating it, throwing down some ideas and commentary.
<aside> ⭐ REFLECTION: I am confident that the prescribed content will contribute to a highly engaging immersive prototype. I am excited to begin to ideate around the delivery of this content in an immersive prototype. There is further content surrounding statistics which I did not include in this exercise as they are pretty set in stone in terms of their clarity.
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I wanted to take some time to reflect upon my approach to this content:
<aside> ⭐ REFLECTION: I am finding that there is a lot of content prescribed to us which can possibly feel overwhelming. I will probably have to edit it down and leave some bits of content out. However, I do not want to do this prematurely as I feel like some content can seem slightly dull in text form but I could figure out a highly engaging and graphic way to illustrate it during the ideation process which would not happen if I cut it out of the initial drafts. That is why I want to work with all of the content right through to the ideation stage in order to give myself as much scope as possible to form ideas.
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In an attempt to begin to establish some hierarchy in this content, I decided to mark up tthe content in HTTML. This exercise was very useful to organise the organise and be able to think about the ways in which it can be used more clearly. I only did this for the text heavy aspects of content, as the data sets may be used in ways that do not require visual hierarchy.
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<h1>Apollo 11</h1>
<h2>United States Spaceflight</h2>
<p>
Apollo 11, U.S. spaceflight during which commander Neil Armstrong and
lunar module pilot Edwin (“Buzz”) Aldrin, Jr., on July 20, 1969, became
the first people to land on the Moon and walk the lunar surface. Apollo 11
was the culmination of the Apollo program and a massive national
commitment by the United States to beat the Soviet Union in putting people
on the Moon.
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<h2>Take off</h2>
<p>
From the time of its launch on July 16, 1969, until the return splashdown
on July 24, almost every major aspect of the flight of Apollo 11 was
witnessed via television by hundreds of millions of people in nearly every
part of the globe. The pulse of humanity rose with the giant, 111-metre-
(363-foot-) high, 3,038,500-kg (6,698,700-pound) Saturn V launch vehicle
as it made its flawless flight from Pad 39A at Cape Kennedy (now Cape
Canaveral), Florida, before hundreds of thousands of spectators. So
accurate was the translunar insertion that three of the en route
trajectory corrections planned were not necessary. Aboard Apollo 11 were
Armstrong, Aldrin, and command module pilot Michael Collins. Their
enthusiasm was evident from the beginning, as Armstrong exclaimed, “This
Saturn gave us a magnificent ride.…It was beautiful!”
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"This Saturn gave us a magnificent ride. … It was beautiful!"
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The third stage of the Saturn then fired to start the crew on their
376,400-km (234,000-mile) journey to the Moon. The three astronauts
conducted their transposition and docking maneuvers, first turning the
command module, Columbia, and its attached service module around and then
extracting the lunar module from its resting place above the Saturn’s
third stage. On their arrival the astronauts slowed the spacecraft so that
it would go into lunar orbit. Apollo 11 entered first an elliptical orbit
114 by 313 km (71 by 194 miles) and then a nearly circular orbit between
100 and 122 km (62 and 76 miles) above the surface of the Moon.
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<h2>Descent</h2>
<p>
On the morning of July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin crawled from the command
module through an interconnecting tunnel into the lunar module, Eagle.
Toward the end of the 12th lunar orbit, the Apollo 11 spacecraft became
two separate spacecraft: Columbia, piloted by Collins, and Eagle, occupied
by Armstrong and Aldrin. By firing <i>Eagle's</i> propulsion system, the
two astronauts changed from their nearly circular orbit to an elliptical
course whose closest approach to the Moon was only 15,000 metres (50,000
feet). At this low point they again fired their engine, this time to
undergo the powered descent initiation manoeuvre. Five times during the
descent, the guidance computer triggered an alarm (called “1202” or
“1201”) that its memory was full, but
<a href="<https://www.britannica.com/topic/NASA>">NASA</a> simulations
before the mission showed that a landing could still happen despite the
alarm, and thus Mission Control told the astronauts to continue the
descent. At about 150 metres (500 feet) above the surface, Armstrong began
manoeuvring the craft manually (although the main engine continued under
automatic control) to avoid landing in a rock-strewn crater.
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<h2>Touchdown</h2>
<p>
For about a minute and a half, Armstrong hovered <i>Eagle</i>, moving it
laterally with the reaction control system until he found a clear area on
which to descend. Then the contact light went on inside the cockpit, as
the 172-cm (68-inch) probes dangling below <i>Eagle’s</i> footpads
signaled contact with the ground. One second later the descent rocket
engine was cut off, as the astronauts gazed down onto a sheet of lunar
soil blown radially in all directions. Armstrong then radioed at
4:17 PM U.S. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), “Houston, Tranquility Base here.
The <i>Eagle</i> has landed.” <i>Eagle</i> had touched down in the <a
href="<https://www.britannica.com/science/Mare-Tranquillitatis>"
>Sea of Tranquility</a
>, an area selected for its level and smooth terrain.
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<i>"Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."</i>
</blockquote>
<h2>Thats one small step</h2>
<p>
At 10:56 PM EDT on July 20, Armstrong stepped out onto the lunar soil with
the words, “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for
mankind.” (In the excitement of the moment, Armstrong skipped the “a” in
the statement that he had prepared.) He immediately described the surface
as “fine and powdery” and said that there was no difficulty moving about.
Aldrin joined his companion about 20 minutes later.
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"That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
</blockquote>
<p>
During their moon walk of more than two hours, Armstrong and Aldrin set up
a device to measure the composition of the solar wind reaching the Moon, a
device to receive laser beams from astronomical observatories on Earth to
determine the exact distance of the two bodies from one another, and a
passive seismometer to measure moonquakes and meteor impacts long after
the astronauts had returned home. They also took about 23 kg (50 pounds)
of rock and soil samples, took many photographs, and maintained constant
communication with mission control in Houston, Texas. After 21 hours 38
minutes on the Moon’s surface, the astronauts used Eagle’s ascent stage to
launch it back into lunar orbit. After various manoeuvres, Eagle once
again docked with Collins in Columbia, and the trip back to Earth began
soon afterward.
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<h2>Splashdown</h2>
<p>
Splashdown of Apollo 11 occurred in the Pacific Ocean about 1,400 km (900
miles) west of Hawaii on July 24. The astronauts were immediately placed
in quarantine in a van on the recovery ship. From there they were flown to
the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, where they were transferred into
the large, 58-room Lunar Receiving Laboratory. The quarantine lasted 21
days from the time Eagle took off from the Moon; during that period the
astronauts were checked for any diseases they might have picked up on the
Moon, and the lunar samples were subjected to preliminary analysis.
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<h1>Cast and Crew</h1>
<h2>Neil Armstrong</h2>
<p>
<b>Neil Armstrong</b> was the eldest of three children born to Viola
Louise Engel and Stephen Koenig Armstrong, a state auditor. Neil’s passion
for aviation and flight was kindled when he took his first airplane ride
at age 6. He was active in the Boy Scouts of America and earned the rank
of Eagle Scout, the highest rank attainable. He became a licensed pilot on
his 16th birthday and a naval air cadet in 1947.
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<p>
His studies in aeronautical engineering at Purdue University in West
Lafayette, Indiana, were interrupted in 1950 by his service in the Korean
War, during which he was shot down once and was awarded three Air Medals.
He completed his degree in 1955 and immediately became a civilian research
pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), later
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He flew more
than 1,100 hours, testing various supersonic fighters as well as the X-15
rocket plane.
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<h2>Buzz Aldrin</h2>
<p>
<b>Buzz Aldrin</b>, original name <i>Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr.</i>, (born
January 20, 1930, Montclair, New Jersey, U.S.), American astronaut who was
the second person to set foot on the moon.
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<p>
A graduate of the US Military Academy, West Point, New York (1951), Aldrin
became an air force pilot. He flew 66 combat missions during the Korean
War, where he flew F-86 “Sabre” aircraft as part of the 51st Fighter Wing
in Seoul and shot down two MiG-15 jets. Aldrin later served in West
Germany. In 1963 he wrote a dissertation on orbital mechanics to earn a
Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Later
that year he was chosen as an astronaut.
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<h2>Michael Collins</h2>
<p>
<b>Michael Collins</b>, (born October 31, 1930, Rome Italy—died April 28,
2021, Naples, Florida, U.S.), U.S. astronaut who was the command module
pilot of Apollo 11 the first crewed lunar landing mission. A graduate of
the US Military Academy at West Point, New York, Collins transferred to
the air force, becoming a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base
in California. He joined the space program in 1963.
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