Neil Flynn

In Ayn Rand’s novel Anthem, the world she describes has each freedom taken from the characters and all they have is hardship and hard work for all their fellow brothers in the cities. Forced to follow the world council's rules, Equality 7-2521 tries to fit in with his fellow brothers, but when finding a tunnel from the unmentionable times he fails to follow the rules of his brother men and creates a great gift to man before getting run out of the city to the uncharted and unexplored forest. A…

“We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever.” On page 19 of Anthem, Ayn Rand informs the readers of a chant or saying that the people of this time have to read to themselves whenever they feel tempted. In the society within the story, the forbidden word was “I”. Nobody was allowed to speak in the first person, they had to refer to themselves as We. The main character, Equality 7-2521, was a little different than the others. He had “a…

tests and Apollo 9 would test the lunar module while in Earth’s orbit. All these missions lead up the history mission of Apollo 11; man’s first step into the future. On July 16, 1969 Apollo 11 launched from Kennedy Space Center sending astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins towards their journey to the moon. Three days later they entered the lunar orbit and the next day Armstrong and Aldrin set out in the lunar module Eagle towards the moon surface. At 4:17 pm Armstrong…

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…

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 exploration,…

Coraline, an unhappy girl, moves to the Pink Palace Apartments with her mother and father. Since Coraline is left to her own devices, she befriends her new neighbors and a boy who lives further down the lane. Later, she discovers an alternate world—one where everything is exactly the same but seems so perfect—so perfect that she would rather live there. However, things aren’t always as they seem. Coraline has to rescue herself and her parents from impending doom. Coraline Jones was voiced by…

“An Eagle flying in outer space” “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win” (Kennedy, John). July 20th 1969, the day history was shaped and a path laid for the future.…

“mourn” several times because that’s what the people will do after the loss of “heroes”. If the President mentions it, it is because he is respected and can convince anybody to mourn the deaths of what would have come of a space disaster and deaths of Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin. In the speech, it also states, “These two men are laying down their lives in mankind’s most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding.” This is showing people that these two men should be recognized for…

Ready for Blastoff Curiosity constantly leads me to new adventures and memories, and combined with my passions, it eventually led me to Chabot Space and Science Center. Driving up the windy hills and past the redwood trees for my first field trip in fourth grade, the magnificent sight of grand telescopes overwhelmed me once my class arrived at Chabot. At each exhibit, I felt like an explorer in space where I could do anything from walking on the moon to discovering another planet with life. As…