Apollo 11

Samuel R Delany’s High Weir, is a story published in 1967. The story describes an expedition group that is stationed on Mars and how one of the memebers goes through a mental breakdown and experiences delusions. The story is narrated by the man himself and throughout the story, he himself starts questioning his sanity. High Weir takes the reader on a wild SF rollercoaster. Confusing the reader with the thoughts of the narrator and with the actual events taking place outside the narrators mind.…

For my Essay #3, The Juror’s Reflection, I have chosen to discuss the case of Moon Microsystems, Inc. v. John Zucchini. I have chosen this case as I found John Zucchini sounded very innocent during my first read through of the trial description, but on each successive read through I found he sounded more and more guilty. I believe that Zucchini would have had a hard time justifying any benefits of his chosen domain name outside of the gained popularity through Moon’s customer’s confusion. In…

The Christian theme of the inviolable dignity of the individual human being is present throughout Ridley Scott’s film “The Martian.” In the film, NASA astronaut Mark Watney is on Mars with a team of other astronauts. The team gets caught in a huge storm, and Watney is swept away. His team thinks that he is dead, so they leave. Watney survived being swept away, but then he is stranded on Mars and has to survive. To survive, he applies the scientific method in creative ways. When NASA finds out…

Sitting with my fellow graduates at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center’s Space Camp, I listened intently as Astronaut Story Musgrave spoke briefly about his phenomenal life. Musgrave never graduated from high school, instead he left his family’s dairy farm in Massachusetts to serve his country by joining the United States Marines. Serving as an aircraft electrician, engine mechanic, pilot, and parachutist, he excelled during his tour in Korea. For thirty years, he worked as an astronaut for NASA…

It’s amazing how the same stars we look at today are the same ones, more or less, that all humanity has gazed upon. Plato, Queen Mary, Martin Luther King—the list is endless but these great historical figures have all seen the balls of light and gas that shine in the sky tonight. That’s all they are, floating matter in a vast, unknown space we call “outer space” simply because it resides outside the front door. Space. It envelopes us like an old, soft blanket with moth bites here and stains…

Zero World By Jason M Hough has a lot to offer in the realm of science fiction. The book starts out in a spacecraft with the main character Peter Caswell in space knowing nothing about what he’s signed up for. He’s a for-hire killer, except with one caveat -- his memory is wiped after each mission. This time though, Peter experiences a mission like no other, one of time travel to an alternate world that matches Earth in almost every way. Though almost every aspect of this book is well crafted,…

As the morning comes, as the blue ish sun gazes over the Martian landscape. As the world awoke, it would soon turn into a blaze. Then on the radar in the capitol building, president Miles was shocked about what was about to come next. Hundreds of aircrafts entered the sky, and unleashed a reign of terror as they began to bomb Mars including the cities which has a large civilian population. Venus’s spacecrafts overwhelms Mars’s defenses and Vendayus orders the fleet to start landing the troops,…

On April 11th, 1970, the Apollo 13 was launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center to complete a mission in space. Their mission was to land on the moon and explore a hill called Fra Mauro. They were to gather samples of the moon’s sandy dirt and 4-billion-year-old rocks. It would take a total of four days to get to their destination. It was April 13th, 1970, the three astronauts only needed one more day to get started with their mission. Everything seemed as normal as a baby crying when it’s…

Mars has a very harsh environment not yet suitable for humans. However, compared to other planets in space, Mars is humanity's best chance at attempting to colonize. The colonization of the Red Planet is drawing near due to many different space venturing companies coming together. Furthermore to this topic, large debate is only rising since the opinions of many are strikingly divided. "Mars today, despite its subzero temperatures (on average -63°C), thin non-radiation and savage global dust…

UFO Sighting: Blood sucking alien spotted in Britain British Ufologist John Mooner captures the photograph of ‘blood sucking’ alien on camera that left him terrified in the closest encounter yet. Mooner described the extraterrestrial being as sporting 'classic looking' black eyes and an indefinite shape. According to Mirror, paranormal expert was left terrified after capturing the image of what he believes was a blood-sucking alien that landed in Britain. As per the reports, during the encounter…