Apollo 17

living history. They also observe that true history is not made up of the noted people but from the unknown masses. During the years between 1960s and 1970s society experienced great loss and pride. The Vietnam War, the Kennedy assassination, and the Apollo 11 Moon landing accurately depict the 1960s as and age of loss and gain. In the 1960s, NASA landed the first man on the moon. Before Americans could successfully travel to space NASA had to build a functioning rocket and find…

Now is the time where I make the distinction between ancient times and modern times. This distinction is marked by two events which took place in the year of 1609. On July 26 of the year Thomas Harriot, a British astronomer and mathematician, among other things, was the first man to look through a "Dutch truncke", or telescope, at the moon and record what he saw. On July 26, 1609 he recorded his first sketch of the moon. Over the next year and a half he drew another seven sketches and two of…

I believe that the landing of the moon was fake because of some very good reason. First, why I think the moon landing was fake because in EVERY video or clip of Neil Armstrong walking on “The Moon” the background or in this case Space it appears to be nothing just a black surface. From a site that supplies facts that are factual it states “You will see the difference. The stars are very faint and get washed out by the bright light of the moon. The reason why no or very little stars can be seen…

Central Connecticut State University may not be the most prestigious college in the world, but it doesn’t matter what the name of the school is, it matters what you do with your education. I attended Central Connecticut State University out of high school. This university had a good engineering program and was very affordable for my family. Money was never an issue with my family, I have just always been very cost efficient. After attending that university and several after to receive my PhD, I…

Whenever tragedy strikes, no matter the significance, a reassuring voice is something that helps immensely to those who lost something irreplaceable. The head of the land of liberty has a responsibility to calm the nation, especially for an event an entire country lacked the ability to ignore. Nixon needed a speech that would assure the public that the two traveler’s trip to the moon was not for loss in the worst case scenario. The speech’s effectiveness mostly comes from the emphasis that…

Soon after Lovell, his crew, and the operations team of the Apollo 13 mission were awarded the Medal of Freedom by the 37 president of the United States of America, Richard Nixon (Orloff, Richard Par. 3). The Apollo 13 mission wasn’t a total failure because many things were learned from this mistake to help prevent similar future disasters (Holmes, Jay Pg. 510). The patch that was used for the mission insignia was a depiction of Apollos chariot soaring through space being pulled by three horses…

be the global leader in every field on Earth, and following the Mercury and Apollo space programs it is was clear that America was at the forefront of that which was outside of Earth as well. Apart from more prestige and scientific knowledge through America’s triumph in the space race, a deeper connection between the individual and the grandeur of the cosmos become evident. Astronauts and spectators of the Mercury and Apollo missions gained a new perspective of their place in the universe and…

The United States was well aware of the dangers its astronauts faced in outer space, but made a decision to continue space exploration. “In event of Moon Disaster” was a speech written by William Safire, for President Nixon to give in case the Apollo 11 mission to the moon went wrong, but was never actually given. The speech starts off by claiming that fate has decided that the two astronauts, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, are to be stranded on the moon, and that this shall be their resting…

According to Bowles and Kaplan, “on October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, a 23-inch-diameter, 183-pound ball containing a radio transmitter, into space” (Bowles and Kaplan, 2012, paragraph 7). The Sputnik I was known as the first artificial satellite. It was involved in the orbit and the Earth. It was also a part of the Soviet Union. The first person reached satellite in 1957. The size of the satellite was not very large. The Sputnik traveled above the Earth’s surface. According…

After World War II was over, the United States and the Soviet Union were at War. This is commonly referred to as the “Cold” War, there was no fighting involved, but it was the idea of the United States to stop communism to spread any more. To solve one of these problems, there was a Space Race going to happen, which later turned out to be a race to land a man on the Moon. Furthermore, I would like to discuss the competition between the Soviet’s and Americans, the basic facts of the mission, and…