New Moon

got into orbit around the Earth first and technically won, the US decided that they should go again to see who could get farther, because getting into orbit was just an elementary achievement. After the United States were the first to land on the moon, there was a full blown space war going on, with an everlasting list of firsts being achieved by either: the first woman, the first spacewalk,…

On April 11th, 1970, the Apollo 13 was launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center to complete a mission in space. Their mission was to land on the moon and explore a hill called Fra Mauro. They were to gather samples of the moon’s sandy dirt and 4-billion-year-old rocks. It would take a total of four days to get to their destination. It was April 13th, 1970, the three astronauts only needed one more day to get started with their mission. Everything seemed as normal as a baby crying when it’s…

emotions. The personification of the moon in line 12 could also be a symbol when the moon offers some light into the darkness, but it doesn’t cure his depression, saying the moon “proclaims” the time is “neither wrong nor right” which doesn’t satisfy something the speaker is searching for. The moon is also a symbol for the speaker’s loneliness, because of its “unearthly” distance; the image of the moon is created to be sad and isolated like the speaker. Yet the moon proffers this luminary…

Its called a dwarf planet because it is very small. Pluto in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. Pluto might become a planet again. We have no real explanation for what a planet is so that is why it might become a planet again. Pluto’s moons: Pluto despite being very small has 5 moons. They are all very small but one is thought to be bigger than Pluto, its name is Charon. The other four names are Hydra, Nix, Kerberos, and Styx. Pluto’s orbit: It takes 248 Earth years for Pluto to complete one…

Apollo 13 Maria Awad Mr. Estes American History II, D-block 16 March 2016 On April 11, 1970, the spacecraft, Apollo 13 was launched to go to the moon. Its journey lasted about five days, 22 hours, 54 minutes and 41 seconds and traveled 622,268 miles. It landed April 17, 1970 in the Pacific Ocean (Chaikin, Kohl, and Bean 56). The spacecraft’s crew consisted of: James A. Lovell Jr. as the Commander, Fred W. Haise Jr. as the Lunar Module Pilot, and John L. Swigert Jr. as the Command Module…

The story is the predictably simple one of an in-valid Vincent (Hawke) bucking the system to fulfil his romantic dream of space travel. Gattaca (pronounced gat-a-ka), is the name of the corporation that can put him on a rocket to Titan, Saturn's 14th moon. The twist: in order to escape the system Vincent must first fool it by posing as Jerome (Law), genetically perfect but crippled by an accident, so now bitter and willing to sell his bodily fluid, and tissue samples to allow Vincent to pass the…

Chuqiao Sun 1335349 Sunc8@uw.edu Writing Project Space craft finally approaching Jupiter. With NEXT, which is NASA’s new propulsion system using xenon propellant with blistering speed of up to 90,000 miles per hour, the crew traveled to Europa in about 200 days. NEXT provide same amount of energy with 860 kg of xenon propellant compare to 10,000 kg propellant in old technology and have five and a half years life time. To save food, water, energy, and space for long distance space travel, all…

cultures thought were important. The sun, the moon, and the stars were all sources that Ancient Civilizations used to determine seasons, months and years. They used all these methods because it was the only resources they had at hand to use. “Ice age hunters scratched lines and holes in the ground.” (Source 1) An example from the text how different hunters used different techniques. Most would rely on the moon to tell the time of the year. Since the moon is always out, this was especially…

July 20, 1969, millions of people were waiting for the first man to walk on the moon. Finally, at 10:56 P.M. (eastern daylight time) Neil Armstrong descended the ladder, walked on the moon, and said, “That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” This mission to moon would not have existed if it wasn’t for John F Kennedy’s contribution to the space program, one of his many achievements while president. John F Kennedy was known for improving domestic policy, expanding the space…

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…