Apollo Creed

The Harlem Renaissance was a time of empowerment and cultural growth for African Americans and this is reflected in the literature form that era. In the empowering poem, “Hey Black Child” by Useni Perkins the speaker explores the idea of self-empowerment in order to promote the idea of cultural advancement. Perkins uses repetition to convey the message that if young black children remain hopeful and remember that they matter and they can acquire achievement through dedication and education they…

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…

Everything was done the same they just did not perform the lunar landing, NASA wanted to see if everything could support a mission to the moon. One of his most well known missions was Apollo 16, this mission’s purpose was lunar exploration. Apollo 16 launched on April 16, 1972 and landed on the moon on April 21, this was the fifth mission where people had walked on the moon. On this mission Young was Spacecraft Commander, Ken Mattingly and Charlie Duke were the…

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,…

There are many famous people who you may not know that was a veteran. When you think of veterans you normally think of ordinary people like you and I. Many famous veterans that served for the United States are people who you know as doing something else extraordinary. Extraordinary things veterans have done and you and I know is Neil Armstrong. You probably know him as the first man to walk on the moon. Neil Armstrong was a veteran in the Korean War. The veteran the I will be telling you about…

first plane ride was when he was six. Neil loved planes and wanted to give flying a try. His dad took him to an airshow when he was a kid. After the airshow Neil wanted to be pilot. When Neil was old enough he took flight lessons. What started the apollo 11 mission. The USA wanted to do experiments on moon rocks. The reason we wanted to go the moon was to show the world we could something great and be remembered in history for what we did. The USA challenged Russia to a race to the moon. The…

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,…

be entertaining, but a learning experience as well. Unless if based on a conspiracy theory, then all bets are off. And this is where the film, Moonwalkers, comes in. The premise being that the American Government had a Plan B just in case the 1969 Apollo Eleven mission was not successful landing on the Earth's only natural satellite. Debuted in 2015, and released to the masses in the beginning of 2016, the indie adult comedy 'Moonwalkers' which goes bank in…

The Opportunity Rover and it’s twin the Spirit Rover received their names from a nine year old, Sofi Collis. She won the naming contest that NASA held (with help from Planetary Society and sponsorship from lego) to find a name for the rovers exploring Mars. Sofi Collis got adopted at the age of two. She came to live with her new family in Scottsdale, Arizona. "I used to live in an orphanage," Collis wrote in her winning essay. "It was dark and cold and lonely. At night, I looked up at the…