Keith Moon

Before the Prime Meridian Conference of 1884, almost every country in the world had some method of time recognition and a local prime meridian, which was in operation. Most people calculated time based upon the sun. Some communities used instruments to observe the suns zenith at noon. And with the development of the pendulum clock, in the 17th century, the observance of time was sufficiently accurate and was used at sea to determine longitudes in the 18th century. As travel improved, and forms…

How does the moon affect Earth’s tides? The is not the only thing that affects the tides the sun also affects the tides. To understand how it works you need some basic information. So the first thing you should know is that as the Earth spins the water around the Earth stays at a steady level. This is because Earth’s gravity pulls inward and the centrifugal force pushing outward that is how the water stays in place but the Moon’s gravity is strong enough to disrupt the steady ocean levels by…

helping our growth. America has given my generation(young teens)a lot, like for example, amazing technology to use for education, jobs, entertainment, and 40 to 50 years ago we used something like the first model computers to launch a rocket to the moon! Back then just getting to circle the Earth once was a huge accomplishment, there are, and probably in 50 years, gonna be over half the countries in the world not able to fly up past one of the oxygen layers closer to Earth. And that shows what…

Have you ever wondered if there was debris in space just like there is on earth? The answer is yes, debris in space causes many problems just like it does on earth. Even though debris on earth causes many problems, sometimes if you think about what space debris causes it can be worse. Are you thinking about why and how there is debris in space? First, astronauts sometimes will drop something out into space. In the text,”Space Junk” it says,”On March 11, 2001, astronaut James Voss had dropped…

The 1900’s was humanity's first step towards a more advanced push towards space exploration. A space race, fueled by the cold war in the mid 1900’s, could not have been made possible without the core principles founded by Isaac Newton. Newton’s work makes it possible for humanity to explore further and beyond their own world. Space exploration is made possible because of the work of Newton. Newton’s discovery of gravity and its laws and published work has enabled humanity to venture deeper into…

Humans have always looked at the heavens and wondered about the nature of the objects seen in the night sky. With the development of rockets and the advances in electronics and other technologies in the 20th century, it became possible to send machines and animals and then people above Earth’s atmosphere into outer space. Well before technology made these achievements possible, however, space exploration had already captured the minds of many people, not only aircraft pilots and scientists but…

Paragraph 2: What are sun and moon dogs? A moon dog is a relatively rare bright circular spot on a lunar halo caused by the refraction of moonlight. A sundog is also known as mock suns or “parhelia”, are a pair of brightly colored spots, one on either side of the sun. Sun dogs form as sunlight is refracted by hexagonal- plate like ice crystals with diameters larger than 30 micrometer and their flat faces horizontally oriented. By day, with the sun, one of these phenomena (fa-nom-a-nin) is called…

that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth." He told America that if they were to reach the moon that they would have to work together. It was from that point on that the U.S. really started pulling forward in the Space Race. NASA realized that before they could send a man to the moon they would have to have a filler mission in which a group of three astronauts were sent into orbit in the…

Donald Slayton had developed a love for curiosity and exploring at a very young age. The National Aviation Hall of Fame states that when Donald was a young child, he would always explore the world around him; so much that his mother tied him to a clothesline to keep him from exploring too much. But his love for exploring never stopped there. When Donald was in high school, his love for flying sparked. And since then on, he was known for his love of flying. His motto, "Keep 'em flying" was even…

Mars, a beautiful planet far away from Earth. People on Earth are planning to live on it, to explore new things and find ways to survive, but is it really worth it? Going to Mars is bongers and unsafe. It is dangerous and most unlikely that people will not live on Mars until few hundred years later. By then we might have already come to extinction. The colonist have made some progress but did they make enough for the years to come? I mean the colonist already found froze toxic water but they…