Lost Moon

In the beginning, the Earth was bare, devoid of any plants. The lands and oceans were untouched, sitting without a purpose. There were no humans or animals, everything was blank. Even the sky was empty: no sun, moon, or stars. The only scenery on Earth that could be seen were the clouds, which is where the Sky World could be found. Where human-like creatures inhabited this world. There were lush green trees and roses that always seemed to carry water droplets upon them. The beings who inhabited…

The Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 marked an entire generation of manmade success. The following texts focus on the Apollo 11 moon landing and contain different perspectives on the matter. The Times article is very analytical, the speech by Safire focuses mostly on the emotional half of the moon landing, Rand’s article portrays the launch as very positive and figurative, Hemlocks cartoon criticizes the negative attention the space launch gets. Each of the passages uses important rhetorical…

appropriate that I chose to write my report over the red blood/super moon/solar eclipse that took place last night. My paper will discuss that the three most basic questions I had about the unique moon, how I found the answers, and my overall final thoughts. Although it is a rare occurrence, that is not the only main reason for why I chose this APOD. After reading chapter 3 from the Horizon’s textbook, I thought the section covering moon cycles was the most intriguing. However, as helpful as…

genetically inferior status as an In-Valid precludes him from achieving his dream of joining the space program Gattaca. Determined to pursue space travel, he assumes the genetic identity of Jerome Morrow, a genetically superior Valid and star swimmer who lost the use of his legs after a car accident. Vincent successfully joins Gattaca as Jerome, where he prepares to travel to Titan while courting his coworker Irene Cassini. All is going well until the week before Vincent’s launch,…

In Marvels newest television show, Inhumans, There is a group of people that have are the same as humans but are genetically wired to have certain powers. This population of Inhumans lived on earth but started to live on the moon under a dome in a city named Attilan because of the humans growing curiosity of regular humans. The people of Attilan are stuck in a caste system that isn’t lenient which angers some of the people of Attilan. The main characters who are a part of the royal family are…

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…

trailing the Soviet Union in space developments so the president made the mission to the moon. Well the spacecraft was orbiting space the astronauts had to postpone a sleep period because they had to plan for desent. On July 16, 1969 Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Neil Armstrong was the first person to land on the moon and he left a lunar laser ranging retroreflector array to find the distance from the Earth to the moon very precisely. One great spinoff this mission made is memory foam which is…

born on February 8, 1828 in France during the Victorian Era. This part of history saw many great writers, although Verne was a prominent one. Of his many intriguing intellectual ideas, quite a few are real today. In his book From The Earth To The Moon, he imagined solar powered space ships, today we have NASA solar sails. He also had the idea of advertising in the sky, similar to modern day skywriting. Even in…

for they had landed on Earth’s rotating moon. The Nasa Space program must continue and receive even more funding, and the opportunities created by the use and research of NASA resources, and the opposing point against NASA spending. The Nasa Space program has been a success for a long time, but had some bumps of failure through the time. In only ten years of creation of the space program, for they had become to first program to put a man on the moon. The program has created many technologies…

The connection between my article Mars, the red planet and The Martian by Andy Weir is that Mark Watney uses Mars’s two moons Phobos and Deimos to help him travel to the Pathfinder so he can communicate with NASA for help.When he travels at night he can’t see any of the landmarks like the craters to help him know the direction he is going so he uses Phobos and Deimos to help him travel. “Mars doesn’t have a magnetic field.So I navigate by Phobos. It whips around Mars so fast it actually rises…