New Moon

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…

objects such as MakeMake, Pluto along these new discoveries have been defined as dwarf planets. They are categorized as dwarf planets because they are smaller compared to the other planets and with their size, are not able to clear other objects out of its path. Since the discovery of Eris, the largest known dwarf planet, the number of planets in our solar system has been cut down to eight. Other than there being one less planet, another discovery was the new category known as Dwarf planets,…

One of the very important scientific breakthroughs in history was landing on the moon, or the mission known as Apollo 11. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the two of the three people on this mission it took three days from lift off to landing on the moon. It was the first mission that put a man on the moon but was not the last. There has been twelve people who have landed on the moon including Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. All astronauts who have been on a lunar landing mission have been…

the Moon that manages to unify the play as a whole. A common symbol of fertility, the Moon shows up repeatedly, but its effect on the play is variant and evolves as the play continues, which is Shakespeare’s take on the physical properties of the Moon. In a physical sense, the Moon is always present around Earth but has a different emotional effect depending on its phase, especially the full moon. Similarly, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Moon is…

Haise, the lunar module pilot, were supposed to walk on the moon while Swigert, the command module pilot, stayed in the spacecraft in orbit, but an event on April 13th changed that plan. The thing that makes the Apollo 13 mission so famous and different from the other missions is how…

The moon in Astrology waxes and wanes, representing all of the many different things we as humans feel, in a constant, never ending cycle of New Moon to Full Moon and back again. The Moon represents our empathy, emotions, introspection, and reflection. The Moon represents your subconscious mind, just as the Sun represents your conscious mind. The Moon’s glyph is the alchemy symbol for silver, but obviously it’s something more familiar, which is a crescent moon. It represents the spirit and the…

“We choose to go to the moon” Analysis Our speech that we chose to analyze will be the “We choose to go to the moon” speech. The speech is about us going to the moon and competing with the soviet union to get to the moon first. He also wants the U.S. to go to the moon to find out more things about space and the rest of the universe. He said going to the moon will lead to more advances than there were before going to the moon. He hopes for more knowledge, and peace by this decision. He knows…

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…

nerve racking moment. Two... Families of Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and their crew hold their breath. One... Blast off. Cheers ring all across the country, “to the moon!” Rather to a deserted area that could serves as a good representation to the moon. There is an abundance of evidence supporting the theory that the very first moon landing, in 1969, was a hoax. The American flag quivered as if bothered by the wind and stars refused to glisten in any footage or pictures; lights, cables, and…

Russia was the most important in getting a man to the moon. In 1967, a fire exploded in the cabin, killing Lieut. Colonel Virgil Grissom, Lieut. Colonel Edward White, and Lieut. Commander Roger Chaffee, it raised a new question. Is the conquest of space really worth the cost? Even though the vehicle was built to reach the moon 239,000 miles away, it exploded 218 ft. above the launch pad at Cape Kennedy. This was a setback in landing a man on the moon. Grissom said “If we die, we want people to…