Moon

Did NASA’s men land on the moon in 1969? This is a question which has been debated by conspiracy theorists for decades. “It was a hoax, it was filmed in a studio” These are just some of the comments which have been said by conspiracy theorists as they attempt to pick at every detail from the photos and film provided by NASA. Then turn them into something that isn’t there. Unlike most other conspiracies around the world, the ones surrounding the NASA landings, just aren’t well thought out. To the…

Lost moon : the perilous voyage of Apollo 13 was written by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. It was published by Houghton Mifflin, in 1994 and tells the story of the Apollo 13 mission that almost resulted in a catastrophe. In April of 1970, Navy Captain Jim Lovell and two other astronauts were sent by NASA on America 's fifth mission to the moon. Fifty-five hours into the flight of Apollo 13 due to an electrical fault, one of the oxygen tanks exploded, causing its oxygen and power to begin to…

In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech Mrs. Partridge leave messages on Phoebe Winterbottom’s doorstep. These messages shine throughout the novel on how the characters view each other, and what they can do to become a better person. The first message left on Phoebe Winterbottom states “Don’t judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins” , and it relates to the character Phoebe in many ways. First Pheobe’s neighbor Margret Cadaver is said to be peculiar because of some of…

There are many aspects as to what is human, ranging from what you look like to what you act like. These aspects of humanity are blown up into major themes in both Philip K. Dick’s book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Duncan Jones’ movie Moon. One of the most influential themes in these works questions the true humanity of emotion and one’s own thoughts. At first, it seems as though Dick and Jones are arguing that emotion is not a human quality; however, in many cases of the androids and…

NASA’s greatest success is most usually attributed to the moon landings, however the accomplishments of the government space program go far beyond just that. Created by President Eisenhower in 1958, NASA’s mission was to provide America with research into outer space flight, and was created during the Space race and Cold War with the Soviet Union, which was a power struggle and race for arms and was caused by the distrust between America and the USSR, and the tension that was caused by the…

Moon phases affect on tide, tides affect on fishing In order to understand how tides work and how tides affect fishing, the relationship between the motion of the Earth in respect to the Sun and the Moon must first be understood. Newton’s law of gravitation explains that both the proximity and mass of two relative objects increases the attraction present within them. "The Ocean's Tides Explained” article states that on Earth’s axis, the level of the ocean is centered by the centrifugal…

1. How is the Moon dependent on the Sun? The Moon is dependent on the Sun for its different lunar phases. Although these phases may not be essential to the existence of the Moon, they would not occur without the Sun. Neither a lunar nor a solar eclipses would be possible without the Sun, again. Also, although this is not a direct dependence upon the Sun, if the Sun did not give the Earth an object to orbit, the Moon may never have fallen into orbit with the Earth. 2. How are seasons created?…

A feature identifiable through my telescope is the Mare Tranquillitatis or The Sea of Tranquility. Once thought to be an ocean on the Moon. According to NASA, its equatorial position and smooth fields of basaltic lavas was ideal for the first manned lunar landing. Mare Tranquillitatis has a diameter of proximally 873km. When view from Earth, it appears dark this is because the crater has been flooded with mare basalts. Mare Crisium (the sea of Crises), a “nectarine basin (about 3.9 billion…

These moons all show the same face toward their planet! Now wait a second. If the Moon has gravity, which causes tides, and is the root cause behind all these shenanigans, what about the Sun? It’s even bigger than the Moon! Tides depends on the gravity from an object, and your distance from it. The Sun is far more massive than the Moon, but much farther away. These two effects largely cancel each other out, and when you…

July 16, 1969 and landed July 24, 1969. Apollo 11 was the first space flight to land humans on the moon. The aircraft carried three people, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin. The objective of the mission was to land on the moon and then return to earth. This spaceflight was seeking exploration and that is exactly what America did. There were many complications involved to landing on the moon, but that did not stop the desire to explore. Although many artifacts can be found from…