Buzz Aldrin

When the year of 1969 approached, the turbulence and tumult of the 1960s began to finally subside. Richard Nixon’s presidency slowly started to regain control in America, as protests, violence, and civil unrest all decreased in the time Nixon was president. Nixon’s fresh new ideas abut running the country primarily stemmed from his “apprenticeship” with former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, although many of Nixon’s policies were revolutionary in their own right. The response of the public to…

"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...” Those are the famous words spoken by President John F. Kennedy during his speech at Rice University. Kennedy uttered these words during the height of the Space Race. The Space Race is defined as the time period where the Soviet Union and the United States were fighting to see who could get man up into space first. Both nations also had their…

The moon is the brightest object in the night sky. On some nights, the moon looks like a shining circle of light. On others, it looks like a thin, silver fingernail. The moon does not make its own light. The light we see comes from the sun and bounces off the moon. If the moon and Earth were side by side, the moon would look like a tennis ball next to a basketball. It looks bigger than the stars and as large as the sun because it is closer to Earth than any other natural object in space. But…

The U.S. sent over 3,500 men over to Vietnam for the Vietnam War in 1960 and continued to do so until the end of the war in 1975. In 1960, NASA sent the first weather satellite, TIROS-1, to space and nine years later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to arrive on the moon. Democrat John f. Kennedy wins the presidential election over Republican Richard Nixon and unfortunately, President Kennedy was assassinated three years later by Lee Harvey Oswald. In that same year, Civil…

achievement is one which was for so long thought impossible, one only ever achieved by 11 other people, and one that brought worldwide fame and recognition? Within months of returning to earth from the moon in the famous Apollo 11 flight Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin descended in a very deep depression. His marriage of 21 years soon broke up, he remarried hastily and was divorced again within two years. His military career ended rapidly and in failure and just eight years after his fame and fortune he was…

was putting on a face to the publicity, basically saying that everything is going great, and we are very prepared. Meanwhile, the astronauts felt unprepared, and the mission process was behind. In the book, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin make it to the moon successfully and return to Earth safely. The end of the book reflects on the importance of the mission and how Apollo 11 paved the way for future technology and science. It also fueled people’s imagination and gave the…

which just like the Space Race, was a race to see who could make it to the moon first. Former President John F. Kennedy started this race in 1962 with his famous moon speech. Before the end of the decade on June 20th, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the surface of the moon. Unfortunately, JFK was assassinated in 1963 so he was unable to see…

THE CONTEXT The most important events that defined the years of Richard Nixon’s mandate and that also affected the future of the U.S. were: o The Cold War o The War in Vietnam o The Space Race o The Women’s Movement o The 1973 Oil Crisis THE COLD WAR ~ DETENTE -The tension between The Soviet Union and The U.S. began to cool down, only to return at its initial state in the late 70s’. -The fright of a possible nuclear war became almost routine-like for both nations, especially after the Cuban…

In the play American Century by Murphy Guyer, we find a woman waiting on her husband Tom to return from war. Upon his return while they’re reuniting, they are interrupted by a stranger, Tommy, who claims to be their son. Although at first Tom doesn’t believe him and thinks it’s a scam, the woman name Margaret knew the entire time because of motherly instincts. He goes on to tell them about the future and how he got back by taking drugs because he is a schizophrenic. He then continues to describe…

In this essay I will argue that Kevin Rudd is correct in criticising the neoliberal attitudes. To quote David McKnight “In effect, Kevin Rudd sees the financial crisis as the Berlin Wall of the free-market, marking the end of an era”. (McKinight, 2009) “The current crisis is the culmination of a 30-year domination of economic policy by a free-market ideology that has been variously called neo-liberalism, economic liberalism, economic fundamentalism, Thatcherism or the Washington consensus.”…