Moon Essay

The Gemini Program was an early NASA human spaceflight program that helped NASA get ready for the Apollo moon landings. Because of the Geminis purpose it has been nicknamed “The Bridge to the Moon.” Ten crews flew missions on the two-man Gemini spacecraft. The Gemini missions were flown in 1965 and 1966. They flew between the Mercury and Apollo programs. All together there are 12 Gemini missions between April of 1965 and November of 1966. The Gemini program was managed by the Manned Spacecraft…

Jim Lovell did not regret the way Apollo 13 turn out to be. Despite almost landing on the moon and almost lost his life. “We were given the situation” (Chaikin).They were really exercising their skills. He explain that he entire crew came home safely. Fred Hasie had different feelings towards the mission. He was disappointed about the mission…

people as well as the stars. Fascinatingly, they had a lot of knowledge of the science of stars by just observing and had predictions that we can now prove are in some aspects correct through proven research. The Indians knew about the meteorites, sun, moon, and the five planets by tracing the movements of the celestial objects with the only resource they had, their naked eye. This is astounding because they had no telescopes or material to help them come up with such scholarly conclusions or…

Essay 3 On July 29, 1958 The United States established NASA which is funded by the government. Nasa was created simply to beat the soviet union to the moon which was named the space race. Since space exploration became a reality there has been a total of 18 fatalities. This supports the fact that space exploration is dangerous. Feb 1, 2003 was the launch of a space shuttle that failed to launch which resulted to an explosion ( latimes.com par. 1 ) . The launch was live broadcast throughout out…

The connection between my article Mars, the red planet and The Martian by Andy Weir is that Mark Watney uses Mars’s two moons Phobos and Deimos to help him travel to the Pathfinder so he can communicate with NASA for help.When he travels at night he can’t see any of the landmarks like the craters to help him know the direction he is going so he uses Phobos and Deimos to help him travel. “Mars doesn’t have a magnetic field.So I navigate by Phobos. It whips around Mars so fast it actually rises…

tell that we are talking about a robot in space. This is no ordinary robot. It is a special robot that can withstand heat that no human can, and can take a video for all humans to see, but that isn’t why he is so special. This robot has been to the Moon, and more importantly, Mars.The opportunity rover has been on the surface of Mars for more than eight years, but sadly the spirit rover only made it to six years. Opportunity and the Spirit rover are NASA’s twin Mars Rovers. NASA's Spirit rover…

Editor in Chief USA Today Online Columnist and Editor, Rand Simberg Dear Editor: Re: “Challenger lesson still unlearned after 30 years– Running a space airline to orbit, the moon or even Mars isn't the right job for government.” January 26, 2016 USA Today Opinion Column. I wish to provide a different perspective from the military community with regard to a recent editorial about the role government has in the space industry. The author Rand Simberg, expressed his opinion that with…

a geologically dead world. There was an abundance of craters much like the moon. It was also from these spacecraft that we learned that Mars' polar caps were made of Carbon Dioxide ice instead of water ice. In 1971, Mariner 9 flew by Mars and mapped the entire planet down to 1 km. These images brought a wealth of information and it soon become clear that Mars was indeed a complex planet. It was not, in fact, like the moon and merely composed of a crater strewn rocky surface. Mariner 9 revealed…

Mercury's surface is similar in appearance to the appearance of the Moon, showing plains and heavy cratering, indicating that it has been inactive for billions of years. Knowledge of Mercury's geology has been based only on the 1975 Mariner flyby and terrestrial observations, it is the least understood of the terrestrial planets. As data from messenger orbiter is processed, this knowledge will increase. For example, an unusual crater with radiating troughs has been discovered that scientists…

past the redwood trees for my first field trip in fourth grade, the magnificent sight of grand telescopes overwhelmed me once my class arrived at Chabot. At each exhibit, I felt like an explorer in space where I could do anything from walking on the moon to discovering another planet with life. As time flew by, I continued visiting Chabot with my family from time to time, but I decided to finally become a part of the Chabot family in high school. In my freshman-year biology class, I noticed…