Spaceflight

In 1999, actor Jim Carrey starred in the biographical film ‘Man on the Moon’ playing the real-life American entertainer, Andy Kaufman. Whilst on-set, Carrey would remain in character almost the entire day. To document this, there is film footage of Carrey behind the scenes, which was made into a Netflix Original documentary called ‘Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond’. Carrey received great reviews for his portrayal of Kaufman and even won a Golden Globe. In this documentary we not only see the behind…

The Moon Landing and Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon are forever going to be commemorated as one of the greatest days in the United States’ history. The presence of man on the moon gave America great power during the Cold War and set them up as leaders in science. But with the increasing rise in robotic technology, the question of whether the continuation of humans in space exploration is necessary or even important, or if it would be smarter, safer, and overall more cost-efficient and…

Valerian: Luc Besson’s hero drives a Lexus A younger generation raised after Star Wars might think, when looking at Valerian, the film, that it borrowed many ideas from George Lucas blockbuster, but the reality is different: Valerian inspired Star Wars. Valerian, the film, picks the comic series from 1967 and mixes it with a promise of the future: the Skyjet vehicle designed by Lexus for a world set 700 years in the future. The first trailer from Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,…

In this report, I will be discussing two different children’s books. The first book, Goodnight Spaceman, was published in 2016 by Penguin Books Ltd, written by Michelle Robinson, and illustrated by Nick East. Goodnight Spaceman is a bedtime story based on traveling to outer space. The two little boys in the book have a father who is a British ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut. They imagine the experience of spending time with their dad in outer space. The second book, Round is a Tortilla: A…

In “What We Believe Ourselves to Be”, Derek Parfit describes a dilemma of identity cause by using a tele transporter to travel. In this story a man uses steps into a tele-transporter to go from earth to Mars (Parfit). It removes his molecules in sequential order, and the teletransporter makes an exact copy of the molecules on Mars using matter from Mar as opposed to earth. Even though the person has the same memories and an identical physical state to his body on earth, other than in matter,…

The leaps we have taken to learn what is found in space is quite remarkable, we started out just looking with our naked eye wondering what we were even looking at, to now-a-days where we are trying to answer the question of should we live in space. Scientist, Head NASA officials, and so many more have expressed their personal opinions on what is going to happen next, and one bit of common ground that they can all come to is that money is going to be a main issue. With the International Space…

World War II brought upon humanity countless atrocities; especially those committed by the Third Reich. During the Holocaust many Nazi scientists were allowed to conduct unspeakable and awful experiments on subjects that in most cases, did not volunteer. A notorious example of these is experiments are the “cold experiments”, conducted to see how the human body reacted to hypothermia conditions (Lagnado). These experiments and tests did reap results and data that proved to be useful. Dr.…

The United States Space program is so expensive that to fund , every citizen would have to give the government $54 yearly . That’s an average of 20 billion dollars since 1964. Our Space program should be ended permanently. Our national debt is already high in our imperfect country and at a time like this, space seems to be less important than our countries problems. Our space program budget is astronomical. While we are debating on ending welfare, we just spent millions of dollars for a…

In a period of incredible social turmoil and change, the United States space program was a project that brought Americans together under the same moon, same stars, same sky. However, right from the beginning, it was clear that the space program did not fully represent America. While white men were at the forefront of space exploration, women and people of color were originally overlooked. As these groups made more and more progress and had a greater and greater presence, they continued to…

Capstone Essay Man has longed pondered about our spot in the cosmos; wishing for a chance to explore the heavens, they have built fantastic machines capable of launching the lucky few whose wish had been granted. Some of the lucky few explored our closest cosmic neighbor the moon, while the others never made it out of earth’s orbit. To some, the fact that the United States went to the moon in the late 1960’s and never returned after their scheduled missions was a strip-tease of almighty…