Owl Moon

session of Congress on May 25, 1961, President Kennedy unveiled perhaps the boldest challenge ever issued by an American leader: “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth” (Kennedy, Special Message to the Congress). According to John Jordan of Michigan State University, Kennedy was one of the first U.S. presidents to effectively harness the emerging broadcast medium of…

beneficial to people on Earth. This is an incredibly powerful statement in vying for public support given that a major reason public interest waned after Apollo was the belief there was nothing to be gained from going to space aside from a couple of moon rocks and footprints…

Why is Apollo 13 Considered a Successful Failure? "Houston, we've had a problem..." Apollo 13 was to land on the moon. An explosion on Apollo 13 forced it to have to circle the moon without landing. Around five and a half minutes after Apollo 13 took off, John Swigert, Fred Haise and James Lovell felt a vibration. Then the center engine shut down. This caused the remaining four engines to burn longer than what they had planned. The S-IVB third stage had to burn longer to put Apollo 13 into…

recounts a mission, following the moon landing, where everything went wrong. Tom Hanks starred as Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13. Bill Paxton plays Fred Haise, the lunar module pilot. Kevin Bacon played Jack Swigert, the third member of the crew who was originally on the backup crew. Jack Swigert got moved up thanks to Ken Mattingly, played Gary Sinise, predicted to get the measles. This movie takes place in 1970, close to a year after Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Thanks to Apollo…

Times newspaper about man landing on the moon, is to inform the readers of the facts and details of the landing. The article contains some inspiring rhetoric and emphasizes human success focusing, on logical information for the readers. The commentary by Rand inspires the audience and promotes patriotism, and reaching men’s highers potential. The article “man takes first step on the moon” uses appeals to both logos and pathos to provide information about the moon landed success for the audience.…

In Graph JM2-17, the cosine curve for both is very similar. Both months/graphs start out at a very minimal percent illumination of the moon, reaching peak illumination around the 12th and 13th day of the months. They also both reach the point of no illumination on the exact same day of the month, the 28th. These patterns follow that of the lunar month. The differences are that the month of March takes about one day longer to reach 100% than that of January, which is still in line with the…

Long time ago space exploration was only a dream, people saw this as something impossible and far away from reality, but that dream became true. After many failures and mistakes humans were able to travel to space, as it is described by The Aerospace Corporation (n.d.) “Russian Lt. Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth in Vostok 1. His flight lasted 108 minutes, and Gagarin reached an altitude of 327 kilometers.” This first trip opened people eyes and make them believe that there…

What if I told you that we never went to the moon? Do you think our country would be like it is today if we could not say that we were first to go to the moon? That the moon landing took place in a movie studio rather than on the actual moon? That the people seen on television that July morning were merely actors in costume. The account that we have not been to the moon has not only brought up controversy for decades but also has been labeled as a conspiracy. Between the late 40’s and the early…

At least part of the transit, which only happens about 13 times every century, will be visible across the Americas, Europe, Africa and large portions of Asia. If you're hoping to watch it, eye protection is key. NASA stresses that "viewing this event safely requires a telescope or high-powered binoculars fitted with solar filters made of specially-coated glass or Mylar." You won't be able to see the tiny dot of Mercury on its celestial crawl without magnification, NASA says. Another option:…

The movie, The Martian, is a science fiction film based on a novel of the same name, published by Andy Weir. The feature film is focused around the planet Mars. Primarily, the Acidalia Planitia, a plain on the red planet. In the movie, this plain is the landing site for the NASA space crew, Ares III. Beginning on sol (day) 18 of their 31 sol mission, Ares III is shown inspecting the differences in soil of various areas when a severe emergency warning pops up on the computer in the HAB, or the…