Moon

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…

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…

The moon has been seen as far back as 1610. The moon is a third of Earth and has no proven life on it. The moon is also the only other place beyond Earth where people have step foot on. The moon is thought to have formed after a mars size planet hit Earth. Size and Distance The moon is less than a third of the Earth. The radius of the moon is 1,079.6 miles. The moon is farther away from the Earth than people think. It is an average of 238,855 miles away. An example is 30 Earths could fit…

Morgan Salone US History Mr.Robinson May 17, 2015 The Moon Landing “10…9…8…7…6…5...4…3…2...1…0 All engines running and lift off,”(Armstrong) said by the announcer of the 1969 liftoff of APOLLO 11. In July of 1969, America sent the first humans to walk on the moon. Three Astronauts Edwin Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins were on the mission named Apollo 11. The Saturn 5 rocket was the launch vehicle they used and it was and…

The moon phases are caused by the sun illuminating or lighting up one side of the moon. The sun is always illuminating one-half of the moon, depending on what place you are on Earth. That also affects what moon phase you see in The Lunar Cycle. The Lunar Cycle start with the New moon and then goes along to Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, then the Full moon. The cycle still continues on for Waning Gibbous Waning Crescent till it comes back to a New moon. This cycle continues about every 29 days…

said this as he took the first steps on the moon. This moment was an immense one for humans. We had finally reached the moon, something scientists had always dreamed of. Although, what if it was fake? What if everything we learned about this great moment was not the truth? The moon landing conspiracy theory is one that is greatly followed and believed by many. It states that the moon landing was, in fact, fake. This conspiracy theory claims the moon landing was filmed on a space-like movie set…

America chose "to go to the moon in this decade, ... not because [it was] easy, but because [it was] hard." Was this really true? Some believe that there was never much thought put into the decision, and this explanation by President Kennedy was really a cop out that showed that his administration did not place any real thought into deciding whether or not to go to the moon. However, many explanations for the attempt to go to the moon are very compelling. One explanation was that America had to…

Moon Inquiry Reflection I have a fairly clear understanding of the lunar phases and orbit. I know that, as the moon travels around the Earth, it is illuminated by the sun at different angles. The different angles of illumination are what cause the eight phases that we observe from Earth. I also know that the moon takes about thirty days to rotate the Earth and the rising and falling of the moon on the horizon follows a pattern. The moon activities impacted my learning in that I was more…

this class, I had no clue what to accept and how to analyze the information that I was presented to me. I chose the topic of the Moon Landing, because it enabled me to take a second look at the conspiracy theory through a new lens of experience. To understand where this idea of a hoax originates, we need to understand what was going on before the Apollo 11 moon landing. Starting in the 1950s, America was in a cold war with Soviet Russia, which was less of a physical battle and more of a…

Two Sides of the Moon The book titled “Two Sides of the Moon: Our story of the Cold War in Space” is the result of a collaboration between an Astronaut and a Cosmonaut. It is a fascinating account of two men from two opposite sides of the space race. In this book, the American astronaut David Randalph Scott’s (Dave Scott) account of the space race is intertwined with the account of Russian Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov. The reader learns through the book that Alexei Leonov was actually the first…