Owl Moon

Past Hollywood, the Space Race influenced other forms of popular culture in the 50s and 60s, ranging from music to cartoons to architectural design and fashion. Directly created from the Space Age was the introduction of Space Age Pop, also known as Bachelor Pad Music . Rather than fear and mistrust present during this era, Space Age Pop communicated a more optimist point-of-view of the time period, using the post-war economic and technologic boom and humanity’s ventures into space as fuel to…

The way we see things is changing. Farther destinations no longer look so far away. Impossibilities are becoming probabilities. And now, the world looks a whole lot smaller. Looking up into the night sky you can see the billions of stars shining down on you. As kids, didn’t all the little boys dream of being astronauts and zooming through space in their rocket, floating in mid-air and talking one large leap for child-kind? Well, now that dream can be made a reality for many people who are still…

light-years from Earth. The system contains three Earth-like exoplanets; these planets are named Kepler-37b, Kepler-37c, and Kepler 37d. Kepler-37b is the smallest planet of the three, being slightly larger than our moon. It was the most difficult planet to detect because of its small size. This moon-sized planet and its two companion planets found by NASA’s Kepler mission were detected while research scientists embarked on the discovery of a planets with “habitable zones” near a star similar to…

It's October of 1957, and Sputnik “each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which was the first satellite to be placed in orbit.” has just launched, and we're at the applied physics lab associated It is Monday morning and all the news just talk about this satellite that’s now orbiting the planet. In the lab there are all of the physics geeks who are thinking that’s thing is incredible. Two of the researchers at the cafeteria table chatting with their colleagues, they…

April 12 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the launch of the first shuttle mission. On that day in 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (left, on the way to the launch pad) became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. Newspapers like The Huntsville Times (right) trumpeted Gagarin's accomplishment. Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space less than a month later. The first cooperative human…

In the late 1800’s, Julius Chambers checked herself into a mental asylum undercover as a mental patient and began composing one of the first forms of muckraker journalism, which exposed the abuse inmates were subjected to within these asylums. After Julius Chambers infamous account of the asylums, muckraker journalism spread like wildfire, leading to exposed political corruption and social scandals. Since the muckraker movement, news has become exceedingly relevant in people’s lives to get…

“5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Liftoff!” The message came over the intercom, it was time. I engaged the thrusters and aimed for the NARSS(North American Recreational Space Station). This will be my home for 15 years. You are probably wondering how I got here. Ever since I was five years old, I wanted to travel to space. Due to my good grades in math and science, I was able to enter into a competition to be the first to go to a space station resort and school orbiting earth. The station was constructed in 2050…

NASA “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Those where famous astronaut Neil Armstrong’s words when he stepped foot on the moon. However, that was only the first step in space exploration. There is no telling what the limits out there are beyond earth. Who sends people to outer space and the moon you might ask? Well, NASA does, they are experts in studying beyond earth. People at NASA are hard working men and women just like everyone else. All that needs to be done, is…

The Moon mass is 1/81 of the Earth's mass and the Earth's gravity is 1/6 of gravity on the Earth's surface, meaning that if you weigh 60 kg on Earth, your weight on the Moon will be 10 kg. If you can easily carry a 30-kilogram bag on the ground, you can easily carry a 180-kilogram bag on the moon. If you can easily jump on the surface of the earth to a height of half a meter, you can climb as high as 3 meters. Also, if you have a pendulum clock that vibrates on the ground 60 times a minute, it…

It was dawn when Luna, a 15 year old girl, was awoken by what sounded like a gun. At first, Luna was scared, but intrigued by the commotion. Luna was only thinking about “ What was going on ?” When Luna woke up from her bed she went straight into her parents room.When Luna walked into her parents room she could see the protesters banging on their windows and chanting louder each minute. But, the unusual thing about the protesters is that they were all men. Luna knew why the protesters were men…