Apollo 11

Area 51 is the holy grail of conspiracy theorists, with possibilities like the Pentagon studying flying saucers and keeping alien beings stored in water tanks. legend says that Area 51 connects by tunnel under the soil and possibly locomotives to other classified facilities in the country. Katie Couric spoke on the Today Show in 2001, that a mere 7 percent of Americans don’t believe the moon landing occurred. it’s believed that the whole event was staged somewhere in the desert terrain of Nevada…

Between being the 152nd human to visit space and being the representative for his electoral district for over 5 years, Marc Garneau has had a decorated life. Two dates were extremely important in Marc Garneau’s life: October 5th 1984 and October 19th 2007. The first, the day he went into space onboard of the American space shuttle Challenger and the second, the day he became the official candidate for the Canadian Liberal Party in the district of Westmount—Ville-Marie. Mr. Garneau once stated…

Pluto-the planet, not the dog- has become an overnight sensation. Everyone is talking about Pluto and how much we’re about to learn, thanks to New Horizons. Next week, the spacecraft will be closer than it’s ever been to the ex-planet. Journalist are personifying the planet when captioning photos taken of it and its moons. For example, one photo was captioned “Pluto Poses with Largest Moon in Family Photo”, giving the planet the skills of a model. Space exploration is becoming more and more…

Kennedy thinks that because we Americans discovered a lot of things before anyone else we should be the first ones to go to the moon by the end of the 1960s. While the moon is still there, we could still go. That generation is ready for anything, that they have knowledge, skill, etc. He thinks that we would accomplish more if we go to the moon. They also have a great budget, And to not be in the last place like always he want's to be first. They set a goal to go to the moon this generation to…

“Teamwork coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress. working together is success,” (Henry Ford). The United States has been given the task of creating a lunar colony. With this mission we need to be thoughtful and specific when we pick the people to go on this mission. As the late Ford said we need the right type of people to work together to make the lunar colony a success. To begin the selection process we need to look at different types of citizens and what they can bring…

was so expensive. Scientists talked about their plans to further missions to the moon and eventually Mars. The reason for human exploration of the solar system was because of the Apollo missions. President John F. Kennedy once said, “land a man on the Moon by 1970 and return him safely to Earth”(Mendell, pg 24). Apollo indeed accomplished this goal, because of the desire for human exploration in space. Wendell Mendell was intrigued by lunar science so he began to investigate NASA’s plot for…

Do you know who Neil Armstrong is? Or what he did? And if you do why should we care? Neil Armstrong was the first man too walk on the moon and the pilot too land on the moon. This all happened in 1996 July 20 he was not the first man in space however but that doesn’t matter right now. Why should you care about him? It’s a good chance that you weren't alive or were too young too remember when he landed. He opened up a whole new world too explore and thanks too him we beat russia too the moon.…

advanced space research facilities, but you have no idea. Number Fifteen: Stanley Kubrick. Famed filmmaker Stanley Kubrick was filming Barry Lyndon when he decided to use special lenses commissioned by NASA. The special lenses were designed for the Apollo moon landings, but Kubrick used them to capture scenes lit only by candlelight. Number Fourteen: Inventions Galore. As a whole, NASA has invented many things that we use every day, including invisible braces and scratch resistant lenses.…

Have you ever thought about what happens at NASA, or how it came to be what it is today? Many intelligent people helped in the creation of NASA. President Dwight D. Eisenhower is the one who allowed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) to be possible though. Eisenhower does this by signing the NASA Act on July 29th, 1958. After World War II NASA’s first administrator, T. Keith Glennan had been appointed by Eisenhower. Now, space technology was improving and on the rise of…

Rhetorical Analysis – JFK Moon Speech Dreaming of being on the moon, President John F. Kennedy approached the podium on September 12th, 1962 at Rice University in Houston, Texas to inspire his audience of scientists, researchers and professors, while acknowledging he was talking to America as a whole. Kennedy composed a moving speech to inspire America, in the context of “The decision to go to the moon.” This speech utilized rhetorical strategies such as alliteration, metaphors, and rhetorical…