The Future Looks Grim for Big Soda. Sales of soda are tanking, and beverage companies are hoping bottled water -- and hundreds of other products -- will fill the gap.
The objectives of the program, which made six manned flights from 1961 to 1963, were specific: To orbit a manned spacecraft around Earth; To investigate man's ability to function in space; To recover both man and spacecraft safely.
Politics. Some say that the entire Apollo program was the United Statesâ effort to prove superiority to the Soviets in the âSpace Race,â a technological and ideological battle waged from the late 1950s to the middle 1970s. The logo of Nasaâs Apollo Program.