Space exploration

Rebekah Anne Lay The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy By: Douglas Adams Comedy- Science fiction FICTION Plot Summary- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is about an alien named “ Ford Prefect” that is posing on Earth as an out of work actor to do research to make the book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and when the world is about to be destroyed he tells his friend “Arthur Dent” that he is an alien and that he has been posing on Earth to make a book and only minutes from the planet…

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad." - C.S. Lewis Metamorphosis, they say is the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two distinct stages. Let us take by precedence the case of a caterpillar. As children, many of us learn about the wondrous process…

Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, states, “Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand” (“Brainy Quote”). John F. Kennedy was one of the most beloved presidents. The public loved and is very interested in him and his family. However, the public is even more interested in his murder and what really happened on November 22, 1963. The mystery behind John F. Kennedy’s assassination can be summed up in two theories: Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone…

Human beings have always dreamed about going to space. Actions were taken early as the 16 century to achieve this dream, when a Chinese official had tried to shoot himself to the moon by attaching forty-seven rockets to a chair and lighting them all at once. Even though some do not believe the story to be true, the dream about travelling to the moon was achieved when Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. Ever since, traveling to Mars has become the next goal. In order to send humans to…

Statement of purpose -Nishita Vegi Ever since the fire, flight has been the most intriguing thing that evaded the grasp of man for decades at once. Soaring like a bald eagle on a bright summer’s day seemed to be the stuff dreams were made of, until a few decades back. Now, all of mankind dreams about living on stars. When you say flight, I think of birds. When you say birds, I think of their wings. When you say wings, I think of an aircraft. When you say aircraft, I think of the birds flying.…

Were the Moon Landings real or faked? Were the “Moon Landings” real or were they fictional? Let’s find out, this issue is creating controversy between many Americans nowadays. I’m talking about the “Moon Landings” of 1969, you know that day when all the Americans turned on their televisions to watch this amazing accomplishment. These so called “Moon Landings” were during the time of the Vietnam War.People want to know if this important moment in time was reality or just a lie.…

full blown space war going on, with an everlasting list of firsts being achieved by either: the first woman, the first spacewalk,…

Garret Torre Dr. Cunningham BIO-101-107 April 17, 2017 Deep Impact Film Review Deep Impact is about a comet that is hurtling towards Earth and could possibly destroy the earth. The U.S. government tries to keep it a secret until a reporter by the name of Jenny Lerner discovers what is really happening forcing the president to announce his plan. An astronaut Spurgeon “Fish” Tanner and his team will land on the comet and plant explosives, hopefully changing the route of the deadly comet. The…

Every Soul a Star is one of the great works written by Wendy Mass, published by Little, Brown and Company. It is entitled, Every Soul a Star because it talks about how the cosmos may change the lives of three different teenagers forever. The title fits the contents of the book because the setting was made under the stars and the main characters were stargazing in the story. There was this total eclipse of the sun, which were waited by thousands of people who love astronomy. Every Soul a Star…

On March 1st NASA had picked me to go on a mission.The mission as to take photos of Venus, Jupiter, and pluto. I left planet Earth to go to Venus on March 5. It took a while to get past the atmosphere and because of everything that was in my ship.I had fuel,oxygen,freezed dried food,plants,water, and medical supplies.After about 43 days, I had got to Venus. when I got to Venus I had taken pictures of it and studied the pictures to see if there was any form of life or anything not normal.When I…