Lance Armstrong

Have you ever been going 25,000 mph, fourteen times the speed of a bullet? Apollo 13 was just any old Apollo mission a least to the American people. Apollo 13 was a little mission that was to go to the moon and collect rocks that were fourteen billion years old. The oxygen tank exploded two days into their mission. It exploded because of faulty wiring that is why their mission was a fail. One reason that their mission was a fail was they couldn’t even compete their job. Their job was to…

Louis Armstrong is the father of jazz. Personally, I am not a music aficionado by any means but even I know who Louis Armstrong is. For him to collaborate with Earl Hines meant a lot to the development of jazz. The reason for this they were two of the most talented jazz musicians ever. What really made this important however is their different skill sets. Louis Armstrong was a wizard at the trumpet while Earl Hines was a magician at the keys. This collaboration showed how you can seamlessly…

The Gemini Program was an early NASA human spaceflight program that helped NASA get ready for the Apollo moon landings. Because of the Geminis purpose it has been nicknamed “The Bridge to the Moon.” Ten crews flew missions on the two-man Gemini spacecraft. The Gemini missions were flown in 1965 and 1966. They flew between the Mercury and Apollo programs. All together there are 12 Gemini missions between April of 1965 and November of 1966. The Gemini program was managed by the Manned Spacecraft…

In 1947 a USAF surveillance balloon crash-landed near a Ranch in Roswell, New Mexico but military covered it up with a false story saying that they found an alien spaceship wreckage. What are they hiding from us? In 1947 an event known as the Roswell incident, it was an event when a USAF surveillance balloon crash-land near a Ranch in Roswell, New Mexico but military covered it up so that they won’t have to reveal the true nature of what the surveillance balloon is really for. But soon after the…

“It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.” This means that he does not feel safe in space when the government pays the least for safety equipment. Alan Shepard was an important figure in the field of aviation, because he walked on the moon and was 1 of 7 first astronauts. He was born on November 18, 1923, he was born in New Hampshire, East Derry, his parents are Renza Shepherd and Alan B.…

place in the world for a long time. Countries like the U.S and Russia had a long, huge interest of exploring this fascinating place. I believe that the moon has some mysteries yet to be solved. “Houston, the Eagle has landed” is a quote from Neil Armstrong. Were the American moon landings successful or were they just a hoax in American history? For a long time, people have been wondering if American astronauts have ever gone to the moon. Many conspiracy theories have been indicated saying that…

Gioia, Ted. History of Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc. 1997. Print. The book tells history about how Jazz became its own type of genre in music. Jazz ascends smooth beats in the ecstatic sounds that changed Jazz in 1950, which is modern day Jazz. The book contains great detail, giving us information by writers and veteran artist on their perception of Jazz. Ted Gioia covers the historical events of Jazz up to the year of 1995. Publisher from Oxford tell the exciting stories of how…

During the documentary, we could watch the influences through some musicians in the 50´s. Those musicians had been inspired mostly by the times that the world was living. For example, segregation, and Vietnam world. They used Jazz as a kind of expression, as a political believes. The most notable musicians in these time were Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, and Dave Brubek. All of them moved the Jazz to another level. A new kind of Jazz became, some improvisation, no guides, new…

The differences between these two kinds of Jazz mentioned in the test seems to have more to do with “the five-year gap between them,” a lot can happen in five years especially with the introduction of record players and the radio (Starr & Waterman, 88). The suggestion that “the ODJB’s recordings are rooted in the past,” being more similar to ragtime than The Creole Jazz Bands style of Jazz, which “points toward the future of jazz” makes a valid point (Starr & Waterman, 88). ODJBs were playing…

Don't say that he's hypocritical, Say rather that he's apolitical. Tom Lehrer – “Wernher von Braun” July 20, 1969, 10:56 p.m. Eastern Standard Time: Half a billion people watched with pride as an American airman from Ohio took the first step onto the moon. He and his two compatriots had traveled almost 400,000 kilometers through space––the culmination of two decades of research and 150 billion dollars. The American flag planted on the Moon proved a capstone moment in the space race. This…