Moon River

Giant Impact Theory The moons formation isn't clear to this day, although it does have many theories on its formation. The moons biggest theory is the Giant Impact Theory, which states that a mars sized object strikes earth breaking pieces off, and the gravitational force combines the broken pieces of earth into one, which is known as the Earths moon. The Earths and moons mantle are exactly identical, supporting the impact theory ("Origin of the Moon"). The moon doesn't have any identical…

The Dawn Mission created an image of the Solar System completed by learning both distinct bodies with the same tools on the same spacecraft. In order for the Dawn to carry three science instruments data that will be used in combination to characterize the bodies. The data information that returned from the spacecraft could offer chances for information in our knowledge of how the Solar System shaped. The instruments that are involved are a visible camera, a visible and electromagnetic mapping…

In a recent NASA blog post, Kelsi Singer, a researcher at Southwest Research Institute working on NASA’s New Horizons, goes over an interesting discovery made about Pluto: It seems to have a near infinite supply of nitrogen. Pluto is Gassy The most recent images returned by New Horizons shows that Pluto’s surface is mostly composed of nitrogen, just like Earth’s. There is; however, about a 20 percent difference in composition; Earth’s atmosphere is around ~78 percent nitrogen while Pluto’s is…

After watching Cosmos: When Knowledge Conquers Fear, tons of informative information were shown, which included history about two well-known astronomers / scientists. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, introduced us to comets and gravity, the work of Edmund Halley and Isaac Newton. Learning about the Halley comet on its 76-year trip around the Sun, getting a closer look of Isaac Newton and Edmond Halley’s friendship and how they changed the understanding of the world. While watching, I could understand some…

Dorothy Johnson Vaughan was born september 20,1910 in her hometown Kansas City, Missouri. She was hired by NACA which later became (NASA) December of 1943. Dorothy made important contributions to the early years of the U.S. space program and was the first African American manager at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. As a group of African American female mathematicians who were considered “human computers” performing complex computations and getting data for aerospace engineers.…

teamwork, prioritizing, communicating and lastly assessing and planning for risk. At first I wasn’t sure that the movie was a “successful failure” but towards the end of the movie it was said that it was such. There was a failure of never reaching the moon, yet it was a success with teamwork both on and off the ship. I would have never thought that it could be possible to have such great teamwork in a failing situation. I felt as if making mid-course corrections went along with the concept of…

The date is 11 Oct 3301 and I started my voyage from the Gentle Hub at Gunnovale to the Pleiades System. I figured that since this star system is widely known (maybe) in real life I would go there first to test the waters. I ran my pre-flight checklist, snacks...check, lemon ice tea...check...fuel scooper...check, spare space suit....check. I set four pips to engines two pips to systems, turned off shields and shield boosters and other non-essential modules and left on the good stuff. I had the…

In 1969 America sent 6 manned space missions to land on the moon. But some people think that these missions were really faked and were filmed in a studio. JFK was the president of America by that time. He started a race between US and Soviet Union based on which country would put a man on the moon first. And apparently US was losing the race. From my perspective and from what I know I say that the moon landings were actually real. Also from what NASA and the government showed us it makes me…

Apollo 13 1. ANGLE ON -- Marilyn. Medium eye level shot. Inside NASA building. A TV is playing, Marilyn lovell turns the volume up on the controller. She chews her lips with her hands folded tightly. Her eyes are fixed on the television. She looks calm with a straight face. 1. ANGLE -- Marilyn. Eye-line match/POV shot of the television Jim comes on the television screen. Camera watches for a few seconds. Jim stands tall and looks confident and calm. [Diegetic sound of Jim talking in the…

We should be looking for extraterrestrial life elsewhere in the universe for. First of all, if we don’t continue searching, we will be wasting all the money and the hard work we have already done. Also, if aliens were to find Earth than they could bring new and better technology. With that technology, we can discover even more than just life in space. In “Top 5 Reasons why Space Exploration is Important for the World” stated that The Apollo missions inspired a whole generation of kids who…