Apollo 17

My Day at the Kennedy Space Center Huge, looming rockets, each one paving the way to landing on the moon, and higher. Aall gathered into one place. - The Kennedy Space Center. Some of America’s greatest achievements are stored there, in perfect form. And if you can pay the price, all of these history-making rockets are unlocked to you. It was very bright out. And very hot. Even with the air conditioning in the white van, we all were still sweating. That’s because we were in Cape Canaveral,…

What brings out the best in a Nation? What is the outcome of difficulty to the people of the United States? “Kennedy acknowledged the difficulty of Apollo's quest but argued that a challenge brings out the best in the United States ” (Space.com). According to this quote, the reason for the “Moon Speech” given by John F. Kennedy at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas was memorable because of the fact that going to the moon would benefit the country. On September 12, 1962, John F. Kennedy gave a…

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The way we see things is changing. Farther destinations no longer look so far away. Impossibilities are becoming probabilities. And now, the world looks a whole lot smaller. Looking up into the night sky you can see the billions of stars shining down on you. As kids, didn’t all the little boys dream of being astronauts and zooming through space in their rocket, floating in mid-air and talking one large leap for child-kind? Well, now that dream can be made a reality for many people who are still…

It's October of 1957, and Sputnik “each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which was the first satellite to be placed in orbit.” has just launched, and we're at the applied physics lab associated It is Monday morning and all the news just talk about this satellite that’s now orbiting the planet. In the lab there are all of the physics geeks who are thinking that’s thing is incredible. Two of the researchers at the cafeteria table chatting with their colleagues, they…

trumpeted Gagarin's accomplishment. Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space less than a month later. The first cooperative human space flight project between the United States and the Soviet Union took place in 1975. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was designed to test the compatibility of rendezvous and docking systems for American and Soviet spacecraft and to open the way for future joint manned flights.…

In the late 1800’s, Julius Chambers checked herself into a mental asylum undercover as a mental patient and began composing one of the first forms of muckraker journalism, which exposed the abuse inmates were subjected to within these asylums. After Julius Chambers infamous account of the asylums, muckraker journalism spread like wildfire, leading to exposed political corruption and social scandals. Since the muckraker movement, news has become exceedingly relevant in people’s lives to get…

“5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Liftoff!” The message came over the intercom, it was time. I engaged the thrusters and aimed for the NARSS(North American Recreational Space Station). This will be my home for 15 years. You are probably wondering how I got here. Ever since I was five years old, I wanted to travel to space. Due to my good grades in math and science, I was able to enter into a competition to be the first to go to a space station resort and school orbiting earth. The station was constructed in 2050…

Skylab was the first manned mission into space in 1973. The mission lasted a total of 28 days and provided us with more information about space that we had previously not known. This was known as the first Skylab launch, and consisted of a three man crew which included Charles C. Conrad Jr. (commander), Paul J. Weitz (pilot), and Joseph Kerwin (scientist). While up in space they were able to conduct experiments which in total they spent 392 hours on. They were able to accomplish a lot up in…

Imagine living among the stars and other planets. The view of stars and planets would be amazing civilians should travel in space because we could find way more about other planets, stars, and galaxies than from down Here on Earth looking through satellites. NASA has said that we know that there is other life out there we just don't know where.We have found that there is a lot of planets out there with water, that means there could be plankton, which means there could be fish and other aquatic…