Neil Armstrong

Rockets just don't get to the moon by themselves. No, it takes men! Men to build them, men to fly them, men to plot their complicated trajectories! White men! Or so the thinking went back in 1961, back when America's Mercury space program was just getting off the ground. Yes, there were people other than men at NASA working too mission is to explore space and aeronautics, or flight research. There are quite a few women working in the space program. Some of those women work at Langley's West…

Why We May Have Not Landed on The Moon and Why We May Have December 1968 was a glorious time for the world. Apollo 8 was the first manned mission to enter orbit of the moon. In the following years many other moon missions have occurred. Various groups and individuals have made claims since the mid-1970s, that NASA knowingly misled the public into believing lunar landings have occurred, by manufacturing, tampering with, or destroying evidence including photos, telemetry tapes, radio and TV…

At 12:33am EST on 7 December 1972, the final manned lunar mission, Apollo 17, launched from launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center using a Saturn V rocket. Being a J-Series Apollo mission, it lasted 12 days, 13 hours, 51 minutes and 59 seconds with Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt. The landing site Taurus-Littrow highlands and valley area was chosen due to the suspected presence of rocks both older and newer (due to…

According to Facebook and Twitter on August twenty seventh, Mars will be seen as large as the moon in the sky, but this is a complete and utter lie. In the article “No, Mars will not be as big as the Moon in the sky”, Phil Plait exposes the truth about the recent and phony social media post that has suddenly gone viral. This post describes how at a specific date and time you will see two “moons” in the sky, but the author reveals how scientifically this is impossible given the distance and the…

On July 20, 1969, NASA successfully sent three men, Neil Armstrong, “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins, to the Moon for its Apollo 11 mission, one of the many missions in the Apollo program. About seven years after the landings, in 1976, a man named Bill Kaysing released a book title We Never Went to the Moon: America’s Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle, in which he claimed that the entire landing was simply a hoax. Since then, many people have read this book (or similar books) or heard about the…

We have sent a man to the moon, we can get to somewhere miles away in minutes, and we can communicate with someone from across the globe almost instantaneously. These are just a few examples of the fantastic technology that we have developed that allows us to do things that our ancestors could never have even dreamed of. Surely, civilization as we know it is far superior to the pre-neolithic people. Well, according to John Lanchester’s article, “A Case Against Civilization,” our perceived…

Usman Hameed Ullah Mr. Ko, Paul Social and Cultural Anthropology HSP3U7 October 19th, 2017 Culture Shock: A personal account My first encounter with culture shock occurred when I immigrated to Canada. This was back in August of 2014 and I was just under thirteen years of age. When my plane finally landed in Toronto, I was completely over the moon with everything. This concept of a ‘whole new world’ had revolved in my mind for at least seven months now. Full of adrenaline, I took in the fact…

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…

From gargantuan clams, to gatherings of giant squids, to attacks by savages, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea is packed with adventure and peril. The excitement starts in the first few chapters, and continues through the entirety of the book. As the characters of Professor Aronnax, his servant by the name of Conseil, Ned Land the harpooner, and Captain Nemo traverse the seas, the book may appear childish, not something with deeper meaning or of literary merit. The fact is, the author, Jules Verne…

The NASA Space program and the whole science division must stay afloat, and continue their exploration of space. The space program has been going on since 1959, and after only ten years of creation, 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…