Apollo 11

Imagine this, you are watching a rocket launch on tv where SpaceX is launching 6 people to Mars for the first time in history. You hear “10...9...8...7” from the launch control. You can't believe after all these years it's finally happening, everyone has been waiting for it to happen. “5...4...3...2...” The last second before the rocket launches “1.” In that split second you thought the future of space travel could change, but now you see the rocket explode into a fiery blaze. On september 1st,…

The Huygens probe was engineered to fulfill all objectives regarding Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The probe was made to withstand landing and collect as much information as possible. The design enabled the probe to brake while descending into Titan’s atmosphere followed by parachuting the remaining spacecraft equipped with instruments to the moon’s surface. Engineers were uncertain where the landing site would be and enabled the probe with different features making it capable of landing on…

Gravity : Space Mission Gone Wrong Gravity is a movie about an astronaut who survive after a catastrophe destroys her shuttle and leaves her adrift in the orbit. The movie was released in 2013 and it falls under the Sci-Fi and thriller category. It is a tense and visually stunning movie which is directed by Alfonso Cuarón. The main casts of the movie are Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. The movie opened with a shot of the earth and space, and it was absolutely beautiful. The visual effects…

It was the year 3026 when the Musk colony dimmed it fit to send someone to the red planet, a planet that use to be known as Earth. Around the year 2025 when the first musk ship landed on Mars, so many people called them mad, the media said they were never going to survive; Little did they know that Mr Musk, the madman that spearheaded this exploration had his own survival plan, not just for him but for the 250 crew members with him. Now centuries later, that madness; that single act of…

Ancient Greece Reading Challenge: 5.2 Required Reading: Ancient Greece: 1. Explain the importance and development of the Greek city-state and the difference between a citizen and a non-citizen: A city-state have city or town that is surrounded by villages and farmland. The city-states in Greek were very independent and they often quarreled. The citizens were strongly patriotic. Many of them participated in public affairs. Only citizens could own land and participated in the government.…

Andy Warhol's Moonwalk exemplifies how pop art took inspiration from cultural trends and, in this case, from the events of the cold war and the space race. The image envisions a single electrifying moment, when man took his first step on the moon, using a technique known as screen printing to capture the dynamic composition of the image. Andy Warhol, a connoisseur of pop art and expressionism, screen painted his Moonwalk only months before his death in the year 1987. It is currently located in…

In Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey, the two sides, immortal and mortal, place blame on one another for the chaos that unfolds on earth. Human nature entails acting on impulse to serve personal agendas, the gods of Olympus are not exempt from its effect and may be major parts of its existence. Homer depicts the gods as divinities that are similar to humans in that they indulge in the same practices, are subject to the abstract beings of Greek mythology, and are in constant interaction with each…

Homer’s Illiad is an adventure nonfiction piece that was meant to convey the tremendous amount of causalities faced during the time of the war. While reading Homer’s Illiad this epic piece connected with life issue in many ways, and was a piece that was very diverse. Of course, with war comes death, but let not death be in vain. In today’s world soldiers have risk their lives’ and many have died due to the battle of the war. The war that changed this nation’s view is the war in Iraq, which was…

Another famous myth portraying homosexual relations is the myth of Apollo and Hyacinth. In this myth, we appreciate a consensual relation between the god and the mortal, who at his death is transformed into the hyacinth flower by the god. If we compare Apollo’s relation with Hyacinth and Daphne, we are able to see that even though the male lover died, Apollo himself transformed him in order to honor their relationship. In contrast, Apollo also venerated Daphne by wearing a laurel crown, but she…

Introduction: Apollo was one of the most powerful gods in Greek mythology. There was only one other god who was more powerful his name was Zeus. Zeus, otherwise known as “Jupiter” for the Romans, was the supreme ruler of all gods, he was the god of weather (Day, 24). Apollo had a twin sister named Artemis, who was the goddess of the moon and the hunt; they were the children of Zeus and Leto. People do not know whether Apollo was based off of a real person. It is said that he would have…