Spaceflight

Colonizing Mars Living on Mars will be hard and will have its ups and downs, many humans won’t be able to survive on Mars. Mars is about two hundred and fifty million miles away NASA is hoping to launch in 2024 and land in 2025. The first person ever to step on Mars will be around nine years from now. Mars should not be colonized, the trip will be expensive and everybody needs food and water also, everybody will need to wear a spacesuit at all times. If NASA colonizes Mars, everybody…

Neil Armstrong began his career at NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) as well as NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) in Ohio. He first joined NACA in 1955, and was first assigned to be in Cleveland to work with the NACA Lewis Research Center (now NASA Glenn Research Center). When he was driving from Cleveland to southern California, he stopped by northern Wisconsin, where he asked Shearon to marry him and go with him to California. In January 1956, Neil and Janet…

Expository Essay for Life as We Knew It One event changed their life forever. The novel Life as We Knew It by author Susan Beth Pfeffer is a realistic-fiction novel about survival. In the novel, the protagonist Miranda and her family want to survive the disasters caused by the protagonist, the asteroid that hit the moon. The lack of water, food, and electricity was keeping them from being successful. The severe climate changes, such as droughts and major temperature changes, along with…

Superbird Brian Tomlinson Superbird is the story about aliens who come to Earth with a vessel called Superbird. Mary Mount was the only one of the five who had survived. Mary tells her story to a reporter of the Daily Star. They told the reporter on the tragic landing where two of the crew were killed and a badly injured. Mary and Sam ran away, but Sam was shot. Mary ran to a house where she was taken care of. They made friends with people and learned to speak their language. They helped the…

Running head: NEIL ARMSTRONG 1 Neil Armstrong Michael Roembke EN144: English Composition Jayme Cook June 30th, 2016 Brookline College NEIL ARMSTRONG 2 Neil Armstrong Born August 5th, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio, Neil Armstrong to this day is one of our most known historical figures (Dunbar, n.d.). Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon; he took that step on July 20th, 1969 (history.com staff, 2010). On that day one of the most famous quotes were spoken, “That’s one small step for…

Lovell, J. L. (1994). Lost Moon: The Perlious Voyage of Apollo 13. New York: Houghton Mifflin. Jim Lovell was the Commander of Apollo 13. He participated in three previous space missions for NASA, to include Apollo 8 and the Apollo 1 fire investigation board. With Jeffery Kruger, he provides a first hand account of the events and a detailed look into experiences of the crew. Lovell, a Navy test Pilot, was selected to the NASA Astronaught Group Two in 1962. At the time of launch, Jim Lovell…

The movie I watched was called The Core and was directed by Jon Amiel. Some of the main actors in this movie are, Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart), scientists Dr. Serge Leveque (Tchéky Karyo), Dr. Conrad Zimsky (Stanley Tucci), Dr. Ed Brazzelton (Delroy Lindo) and Rebecca (Hilary Swank). The main focus of this movie was to show what it would be like to travel to the core on a life saving mission. In this movie Dr. Josh Keyes notices that the Earth's inner core has stopped rotating. So Dr. Keyes…

In the old days, many believe that we are the only living things on our galaxy or even in the whole universe. No one even bothers to look beyond our planet and explore the space for that matter. Though in Ancient Egypt, Babylonians use to study the Sun, Moon and stars just to generate a calendar for farming and religious rites but it never extended that far. Then in early 1900's people started to explore space and study matters beyond our planet. Edwin Hubble was the first person who introduced…

Humanity’s voyage into the great beyond made its debut with the vertical launch of the V-2 rocket in 1944, which was the first rocket to pass through the boundary of space. This was the catalyst to a large string of events that would eventually lead to many world renowned space programs to come into fruition. An often overlooked benefit to the space program is the myriad of new and improved technologies that seamlessly integrate into society. Many inventions, such as polarized lenses and…

The search for viable planets and moons for NASA to colonize may be narrowed to one. The Jupiter moon Europa may be next on the mission list for NASA astronauts. Leaving Mars out in the cold. Recent research from NASA scientists could have found the life sustaining evidence they need on Europa. Or at least under its icy surface. The study is encouraging, now that scientists believe that the Jupiter moon ocean has enough energy to support life. If so, will NASA astronauts find aliens on the…