Apollo 17

In john F. Kennedy Space Center Merritt Island, Florida, the President will give a speech on about space exploration in the 21st century. In this speech the President is talking to NASA Administrator, congress, and to the audience about the future of space exploration, NASA’s future plans and the importance of space exploration for the U.S. Obama effectively convinces his audience that space exploration should continue to grow, also how important space exploration is through pathos appeals and…

Many people believe in conspiracies and theories that can be true but most likely are not. The face on Mars is one of those conspiracies. Many people believe the face on Mars is a sign of alien life. It is a natural landform and there are many reasons why. There are no actual markings of life, it is similar to a Martian mesa, and our images can never be 100% accurate so illusions or other things are possible. Once the first image was revealed many people said there were no markings due to it…

“Live with no excuses and love with no regrets.”- Montel, and as two tragedies struck on a great morning with high hopes. We can only reflect on the who, what, how, where, and why(s) of yesterday. The Three Mile catastrophe and The Challenger Space Shuttle Launch has forever stained the picture we possess about mistakes in lack of cautionary actions. In addition, two men wrote memos to prevent these tragic outcomes; Dr. Hallman a manager at the TMI power plant in Ohio, about the Three Mile…

At the beginning of the twenty-first episode of CBS’s television series Men into Space, Colonel Edward McCauley, played by actor William Lundigan, presented a powerful but human side to space exploration: "No matter where he travels, one thing will always be the same: man himself. Human nature will not change in the strange outposts of space. There will always be love and hate, courage and fear” (Neufeld 10). Yet, in 1960 when the program first aired, the astronauts were not the ones who…

Howard, the movie Apollo 13 recounts a mission, following the moon landing, where everything went wrong. Tom Hanks starred as Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13. Bill Paxton plays Fred Haise, the lunar module pilot. Kevin Bacon played Jack Swigert, the third member of the crew who was originally on the backup crew. Jack Swigert got moved up thanks to Ken Mattingly, played Gary Sinise, predicted to get the measles. This movie takes place in 1970, close to a year after Apollo 11 landed…

1969 Apollo 11 The purpose of the article on Times newspaper about man landing on the moon, is to inform the readers of the facts and details of the landing. The article contains some inspiring rhetoric and emphasizes human success focusing, on logical information for the readers. The commentary by Rand inspires the audience and promotes patriotism, and reaching men’s highers potential. The article “man takes first step on the moon” uses appeals to both logos and pathos to provide information…

Born on October 31, 1930 in Rome, Italy, Michael Collins is sometimes known as a the “Forgotten Astronaut” of the Apollo 11 mission. As a child, he lived in Oklahoma, New York, Texas, Virginia, and Puerto Rico. Finally, he settled in to attend school in Washingtion D.C. He graduated from Saint Albans School in Washington D.C. and received his Bachelor of Science in 1952 from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He worked for the US Air Force flying F-86 fighter jets…

Long time ago space exploration was only a dream, people saw this as something impossible and far away from reality, but that dream became true. After many failures and mistakes humans were able to travel to space, as it is described by The Aerospace Corporation (n.d.) “Russian Lt. Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth in Vostok 1. His flight lasted 108 minutes, and Gagarin reached an altitude of 327 kilometers.” This first trip opened people eyes and make them believe that there…

World renowned astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins hopped aboard the space shuttle Apollo 11. These three men perused their dreams of becoming the first humans to go to the moon. The United States took a drastic move forward in their expedition to get to space, becoming the first country to successfully land on the moon. In doing so, they…

program. One of the programs that I think contributed the most are the Apollo programs which are also known as project Apollo. It was in fact not the first program to attempt human spaceflight by NASA but the third and accomplished many goals between the 1960’s and 1970’s. There is one Apollo mission though that really catches my eye and makes me believe that this is the mission that made the most contribution, and that is Apollo 11. This mission’s goal was to safely send man to the moon,…