Spacecraft

On page 10, when Clarisse asks Montag “Are you happy?” it makes him begin to wonder, is he happy? In order to truly understand this maybe we need to know what is happiness? According to dictionary.com, the definition of happy is “characterized by or indicative of pleasure, contentment, or joy”. Their society looks for this contentment in materialistic things. There are numerous thing that they use to try to find this contentment including the parlor. They use their parlors as a means of…

Take a look around the room and at all the items that surround you. What do you see? Probably some chairs, or maybe even some books or probably even a television. Engineers have shaped our world as we know it. An engineer helped make all of these everyday items. Engineers solve practical problems by applying mathematical and scientific knowledge. The word engineer comes from a Latin word meaning ‘cleverness’. The actual definition of an engineer is “A term applied to the profession in which a…

help save the U.S. so much money today. The U.S. military has also received better technology due to the space race. After the Soviets launched Sputnik, many Americans feared the U.S.S.R. would someday launch nuclear weapons at America from the spacecraft (Woudhuysen). To address the nation’s fears,…

My favourite chapter in Mark Haddon’s “the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time” is Chapter 179, because it comprises all the dominant themes and motifs in the novel. In the beginning paragraphs, one can recognize both the literacy (as in literal) and descriptiveness in Christopher’s tone of voice. This is a predominant theme in the story because the entirety of Christopher’s actions and reactions, and how Christopher perceives the world around him are based solely upon being literal…

This again was a to spec model of the landing craft and all surrounding equipment and moon surfaces. The myth goes that a picture of Armstrong was taken with a no flash camera while he was in the shadow of the spacecraft. Controversy has been brought up regarding the picture because Armstrong is still easily seen with the presence of an unknown light source. Another representative light source must have been present to make him visible in photo. Once again, the…

Lost moon : the perilous voyage of Apollo 13 was written by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. It was published by Houghton Mifflin, in 1994 and tells the story of the Apollo 13 mission that almost resulted in a catastrophe. In April of 1970, Navy Captain Jim Lovell and two other astronauts were sent by NASA on America 's fifth mission to the moon. Fifty-five hours into the flight of Apollo 13 due to an electrical fault, one of the oxygen tanks exploded, causing its oxygen and power to begin to…

Humans are inquisitive creatures who have reached beyond the stars to satisfy their curiosity. In particular, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a government agency that oversees U.S. aeronautics and aerospace programs and research, wants to “reach for new heights and reveal the unknown for the benefit of humankind” (Wilson). NASA has been a national icon for space exploration for nearly 60 years (Simpson). In the 20th century, the U.S. engaged in the space race, a…

moon, scientists believe that there is a possibility animals can live here. NASA is trying to create more space crafts to launch to other planets, to see if they are livable for creatures. Even though Cassini was the spacecraft that went to Saturn, it was a robotic spacecraft so, no humans or animals were used or inside. All we know right now is that Cassini provided clear evidence that Enceladus shows signs of hydrothermal activity…

Rhea, Tethys and Dione. In addition to those groundbreaking discoveries he also found out there was a narrow gap in Saturn’s ring system, which would go on to be named after the astronomer who came across it in his observations. There is also a spacecraft named in the honor of his finding, which is actually…

The first women in space was valentina tereshkova. She went in space 1963. She spent almost 3 days in space in orbit earth 48 times. That was her only trip in space. She later toured around the world to promote soviet science and became involved in soviet politics. Tereshkova was born on march 6, 1937,in Maslennikova, a village near the Volga river about 170 miles northeast of Moscow. Her father was a tractor driver and her mother work in a cotton mill.. Tereshkova father was killed during world…