Synthesizing Information about the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

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Which best states how information in Team Moon and the NASA article are the same?

Both give information about the moon landing of the Apollo 11 space mission.

How does the information in the NASA article best add to a reader's understanding of Team Moon?

It gives the reader a more factual overview of the Apollo 11 space flight from start to finish.

How does the information in Team Moon best add to a reader's understanding of the NASA article?

It increases the reader's understanding of the tense atmosphere at mission control during the Apollo 11 mission.

Read the excerpts from Team Moon and the NASA article. And only now—a solid, panic-stricken, gut-wrenching, heart-palpitating ten minutes by clock but feeling like an eternity later—did it sink in for John Coursen, Tom Kelly, and a lot of the other Grumman folks who had poured years of their lives into building the lunar module: Their baby was on the moon. Let the cheering begin! When the lunar module lands at 4:18 p.m. EDT, only 30 seconds of fuel remain. Armstrong radios "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." Mission control erupts in celebration as the tension breaks, and a controller tells the crew "You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue, we're breathing again." How is the information in the excerpts different?

The first excerpt is more emotional than the second excerpt.

Read the excerpt from Team Moon. The trouble with option 2 was that the venting might push the fuel to an unstable condition. Or, another possible outcome of the "burping": what if the landing gear hadn't deployed correctly? Could any movement, or any resulting burst—no matter how small—tip the LM over? Many a voice in the debate thought the safest option was to abort—now! But that opinion was quickly overruled by the Grumman and NASA leadership (who were confident of the landing gear), and the consensus of the leaders was that it would be safe to gently, gently burp the engine. Which detail from the excerpt identifies a solution?

it would be safe to gently, gently burp the engine

Read the excerpt from Team Moon. Absolutely no one expected it to happen. They painstakingly planned so it absolutely wouldn't-couldn't happen. But here they were, less than five hundred feet from the moon, and just about plumb out of fuel. Which detail from the excerpt best identifies the problem?

just about plumb out of fuel

Read the excerpt from Team Moon. The heavier the spacecraft, the harder it is to launch. And fuel is heavy. So it was critical to pinpoint the fuel needed, add a cushion, then take no more than necessary. But now, because the landing was taking far longer than planned, the fuel was almost gone. Mission Control wanted Neil to take as much time as he needed and fly the LM as near empty as possible only because they wanted him to make the landing. But if he ran out of fuel above the surface, in all likelihood the LM would crash onto the moon. So they were trying to time it to the last possible second before calling an abort—calling off the landing. Which detail from the excerpt identifies a solution?

they were trying to time it to the last possible second

Read the excerpt from Team Moon. The heavier the spacecraft, the harder it is to launch. And fuel is heavy. So it was critical to pinpoint the fuel needed, add a cushion, then take no more than necessary. But now, because the landing was taking far longer than planned, the fuel was almost gone. Mission Control wanted Neil to take as much time as he needed and fly the LM as near empty as possible only because they wanted him to make the landing. But if he ran out of fuel above the surface, in all likelihood the LM would crash onto the moon. So they were trying to time it to the last possible second before calling an abort—calling off the landing. Why does the author use a problem-solution text structure in the paragraph?

to help the reader understand the difficult decisions faced by Mission Control

Read the excerpts from Team Moon and the NASA article. Kennedy's decision was triggered by an intense "space race" with the old Soviet Union. The Soviets were first in space (with Sputnik); first too with a man in space. July 1969. It's a little over eight years since the flights of Gagarin and Shepard, followed quickly by President Kennedy's challenge to put a man on the moon before the decade is out. A reader can best combine the information in the excerpts to

understand that President Kennedy's desire to put a man on the moon was inspired by a "space race" with the Soviet Union.