Gemini

After World War II, Many powerful nations started to decline. Germany was defeated, France and Britain were in an economic decline and needed to start rebuilding. The United States and the Soviet Union both emerged as the world 's superpowers after World War II. Due to the fact that these nations dominated world politics at this time, they began to have conflicting ideas. After World War II both Soviet Union and the United States had mutual distrust leading to the cold war, which was a state of…

Aquarius: Lately things have been changing and you’re not sure how to deal with it. Your Facebook feed is filled with a new wave of memes you don’t get and the use of big words you don’t know. The solution here is crucial: isolation. It worked for the Ming Dynasty and it can work for you, too. Pisces: So no one told you life was gonna be this way/ Your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D.O.A./ It's like you're always stuck in second gear/ When it hasn't been your day, your week, your…

In April of 1959 Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. was selected to be one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury (NASA). According to the NASA website, the astronauts immediately began training for their mission at Langley (NASA). Their training “included a "little of everything" ranging from a graduate-level course in introductory space science to simulator training and scuba-diving” (NASA). While all the astronauts were given different jobs, Cooper’s was to deal with the Redstone rocket,…

Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. He was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio on August 5, 1930 (Nasa Administrator). In 1947 Armstrong received the USA scholarship navy and he entered the Purdue University to study aeronautical engineering study. After a year, the U.S. Navy called him to active duty and he became a Navy pilot (Neil Armstrong Biography). In 1950 he was sent to the Korean War. (Neil Armstrong Biography). Neil was the youngest pilot aboard the USS Essex. Neil…

person to walk on the moon” He’s a hero to many of us who have followed the world of Apollo. Michael Collins, attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York and afterward began his career in the sky. His first spaceflight was the Gemini 10 mission, where he performed a spacewalk. His second was Apollo 11 the first lunar landing in history. Also the first person to orbit the moon in a Command Module all alone with no communication. His courage and bravery helped us get where…

They had all flown in previous missions to explore. Each of them had flown in one of the Gemini explorations. Neil Armstrong flew on the Gemini 8 mission as the command pilot (Biography.com “Neil”). Buzz Aldrin flew in Gemini 12. Aldrin also was backup crew for the Apollo 8 mission (Biography.com “Buzz”). Michael Collins wasn’t left out of flying on a Gemini mission; he flew in the Gemini 10 mission. During this mission, he performed a spacewalk and proved that he was a great explorer (Biography…

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, has been around for fifty-eight years now! NASA is a United States government agency that is responsible for air and space travel. It has accomplished several different things pertaining to air and space travel. The biggest accomplishes are: human space flight, first human landing on the Moon, they also have humans living on the ISS (International Space Station), They have sent space probes to every single one of the planets in…

The tragedy of the Apollo 1 fire is the biggest counterpoint to one the United States’ most awesome achievements, the Apollo program. This program’s roots extend back into the 1800’s but truly became possible with the beginning of the Space Race. After the race for the Moon began with President Kennedy’s historic speech, America began heading for both victory and tragedy in the rush to be first to the Moon. In the sprint of the Apollo program, NASA overlooked the technical risks of the command…

reveal clues about Jupiter-y planets and their creation and planetary siblings. At a distance of 96 light years from Earth, the planet which is known as 51 Eribani b, was photographed by the Gemini Planet Imager, which, according to the Wikipedia, is a high contrast imaging instrument that was built for the Gemini South Telescope in Chile. The 51 Eribani b planet is twice the size of Jupiter, but still is one of the smallest planets out of our solar system to be imaged by astronomers since…

The Devil in the White City is a nonfiction book that is divided into four different parts. The last part takes the reader into two perspectives. One perspective is of Daniel Burnham who was the architect that built the 1893 Chicago’s World Fair. The book describes of the obstacles that Daniel and his partner John Root had to overcome. These obstacles include the two of them having to figure out an attraction more spectacular than the Eiffel Tower. Also, Daniel was left building the fair by…