Columbus / First trip to MoonColumbus’s first voyage and the first trip to the moon are similar in many ways and they are alsodifferent too. I am going to compare them five different ways. First, by their preparation; second, by theircourage; third, by their service to civilization; fourth, by their equipment; and last, by the public’s opinion.
First, preparation, Columbus got preparaed for his voyage by first asking the King ofPortugal,who refused, then he asked the King and Queen of Spain. King Ferdanand and Queen Isabella of Spainrefused Columbus for the first six years that he kept asking,but once he was ready to give up, they gave in andgave him the money, supplies, and the ships he needed. He had three ships, the Santa Maria, the largest of thethree, the Pinta, and the Nina. The first trip to the moon needed some preparation, also.
They got preparaed bygetting the funds from NASA and taking many years to prepare a space shuttle, and making it suitable to ride. They had to prepare by testing certain things on the shuttle and training the astronauts. Second,courage, Columbus had to have courage if he could sail for thousands of miles. He hadno idea that he was in a different place than he actually thought he was. He also had to have courage to face theIndians.
The astronauts of Apollo 11, who were the first ones to make it to the moon, definitely had to havecourage to go up in space never knowing if something would go wrong and they would never see their familyagain. Like Columbus, the astronauts had to travel thousands of miles, and had to have courage to facewhatever was there up on the moon. Third, service to civilization, Columbus had served the civilization in Spain by bringing back newthings that they had never seen before. He also became a hero to their civilization when he came back .
Theastronauts on the first trip to the moon also became heroes to the Americans and they had finally beat Russia inthe space race, which made many Americans happy. Fourth, equipment, Columbus’s equipment may not have been as high tech as the Apollo 11mission’s, but he did have some high tech stuff for that time period. He had a compass and had a way of alteringthe distance charts. The astronaut’s equipment was a lot more high tech than that of Columbus’s, they had tohave electricity to work many things, which was not around in Columbus’s time.
Like Columbus, the astronautshad to use a compass to show which direction they were going,Last, public opinion, the public’s opinion of Columbus was that of a hero. They all thought hewas the greatest to sail to another world and bring back many things that they have never seen. Like Columbus ,the astronauts were heroes also , they recieved medals and became three of the most well known people inhistory. As you can see that even though there is a big year difference in between Columbus’s first voyageand the first trip to the moon, they are alike in many ways. They both had fundings from higher authorities andsome of their equipment was similar, and they both came out with well known heroes.
