Space Race

This story starts with the birth of a strange creature in the Matoma world, this world is 2000 years to earth as a consequence humans aren’t able to land here or maybe that’s what they think… We are in the year 3205 and Matoma is a very peaceful and sunny place where people can happily live, however this was about to change. The birth of Mack was a very significant one to Matoma’s society even though no one knows what was happening, he was a very strange type of creature named AtellaGali which…

author, Austin Carr, is writing about the rivalries between the businesses of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and the aerospace firm Blue Origin. Carr discusses their contributions to spaceflight, competition between the companies to recruit best engineers and to make history, and the construction of reusable rockets. Carr concludes his article by telling his readers who he thinks is winning the modern space race. Carr does an excellent job writing about the rivalries between the two…

"Martian Chronicles" - a series of stories by Ray Bradbury, related to a single theme and dedicated to expeditions to Mars, the first contact with extraterrestrial civilizations and the development of the alluring red planet, in which people find their shelter and new home. "Martian chronicles" consist of separate stories with often unrelated plots. At first they did not think as continuing each other, Bradbury collected them in one book only on the advice of the publisher after most of them…

University in Houston, Texas. The occasion of the speech was to address to the American people the importance of returning to space and being the first nation to place a man on the surface of the moon. Kennedy chose this time to deliver his speech because we were currently at the height of the cold war and the United States was beginning to lose the space and technological race against the Russian nation. Therefore Kennedy appeared at Rice University where he delivered his speech to a crowd that…

Space Exploration & Why We Should Fund It Space exploration is a really expensive endeavor to the common civilian, it costs billions to operate a mission to space, billions to build the shuttles to get up there. The U.S.A space program NASA has seen less funding each year since 1966 where it peaked at 4.5% of the federal budget down to 1% in 1975 and it still loses funding each year even today! How is NASA staying afloat and it is effecting how long it will take us to achieve reasonable and…

been wasting a bunch of money on the space program (NASA).Although there are a few pros to investing in NASA there are a whole lot more cons that take over those pros. In the human society the average salary for the average human in the U.S. is about 50,000 dollars, now with that being said the government really believes in the space program the out of the average salary they have decided to withdraw thirty-two dollars from their income tax and add it into the space programs account .So every…

in America through a seemingly outrageous analogy of aliens requiring all African Americans to be taken from the country in exchange for prosperity. Evidently, the Space Trader 's offer of gold, fuel, and chemicals to restore the county 's suffering environment in exchange for all the Black Americans is absurd. and impossible. The Space Traders are similar to Columbus and the Spaniards who forced natives in Hispaniola into slavery. The story illustrates a largely racist America, with Washington…

Oppression I joined this class to learn about social identities and how they shape our experiences. I believed being in a space where people from a variety of backgrounds could share their experiences would make me more understand other people. My fear entering this class was that sharing my experiences because I am a guarded person. The class exceeded my expectations. It was a space where I experienced validation in a way I could not have anticipated. I did not expect to address my own…

In 2011, Elijah Anderson went out into various regions of Philadelphia in order to draw conclusions about modern race relations in an urban environment. He set out to confirm the existence of cosmopolitan canopies, “settings that offer a respite from the lingering tensions of urban life and an opportunity for diverse peoples to come together” (Anderson xiv). While his experience of Philadelphia as a black man is different than mine as a white woman, I believe cosmopolitan canopies can be…

The selected reading, “Space Traders” is a troubling story about race relations, greed, status and reckless political power. The story begins on the first day of the year 2000 in the United States of America. For the first time ever, visitors from a star in outer space were to visit earth; in fact, they had announced their visit via radio broadcasts weeks in advance. Millions of people were prepared to witness this historic event. The visitors from the far star arrived in a grand fashion,…