Amy Shira Teitel's Breaking The Chains Of Gravity

In the “Seven Minutes of Terror, Eight Years of Ingenuity” by ReadWorks discusses about the idea of traveling to space and the scientist working together to make this possible. ReadWorks discuss the people, ideas of getting to space, and reason why there was a to getting to people off earth. It demonstrates how these people worked, especially together day in and day out.

During the peak of Space exploration interest in America, two well known men came together and publicized information about space travel to homes around the country. Wernher von Braun and Disney collaborated for years and by as early as 1955 they had aired their first movie, “Man in Space.” They later went on to publish two more films prompting members of the US government to later approach Disney with an interest in the information that was included in the show. Wernher von Braun’s exploration of space led to the collaboration between Walt Disney and himself and due to the impressive content of the show, led to authorization from Eisenhower to launch a small scale, earth cycling satellite into space.

Have you ever wanted to soar? Fly? Glide through the skies of the earth or even the great unknown called the universe? Well thanks to todays’ technology and the company founded on July 29 1958, NASA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), we can now undertake that dream; you can finally take to the air.

Thinking about death is scary. Humans tend to avoid thinking about these topics as it gives them complex negative feelings and thoughts about afterlife. Many people on their death beds are asked, “What would you do differently if you were a teenager again?” In response, many victims of this natural but frightening process say, “I wish I had a bit more time to care about myself, and didn’t let people’s ideas and thoughts about me, and my appearance affect me.” The novel Gravity Journal, is written by Gail Sidonie Sobat who is a Canadian writer, educator, and singer that works as a teacher with kids who have eating disorders. Gail wrote the novel by her experiences at the school of anorexic victims over the course of four years. In this novel, a lot of characters play a critical role in developing the plot and the universal theme of the story. These characters include, Anise the protagonist of the story, Marcel, Anise’s brother, Boyd, her boyfriend, Morgan, Anise’s therapist, and Dr.Z, Anise’s doctor. The story takes place in Eliza Petraclark Memorial Hospital, also known as the 4Phsych-O located in Edmonton, Canada. Anise Jasmine Luther is diagnosed by Anorexia, an eating disorder that makes the victim obsessed with losing weight. Anise finds it difficult dealing with everything, her brother Marcel, her parents, and the hospital. Thoughts and plans of committing suicide wonders her head, night and day. Cutting herself is the only escape plan. Anise

America’s space program is undoubtedly one of its greatest modern achievements. Few people cannot recall the famous quote “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” or do not know where it came from. The story leading up to the moment a man walked on the moon, as well as everything that came after, is just as interesting and important as the moment itself. The significance of the history of America’s aeronautics programs cannot possibly be overestimated, and their story is one that is incredibly important to the modern world of today. It would not be the nation that it is, with the technology it possesses, without its crucial involvement in the “space race”. If the technology that sent a man to the moon did not exist, our daily lives would be impacted and basic tools would be missing. Beginning with America’s first official aeronautics organization, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (or NACA) and continuing through to the present day and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (or NASA), the story of America’s aerospace programs is interesting and extremely important. It is a story that spans many years and giant leaps in technology, and involves important locations like Wallops Flight Facility and Kennedy Space Center. From the early beginnings of NACA and Wallops, and continuing on to the rise and success of NASA and Kennedy Space Center, aeronautics

The NASA Space Program is one of the most, if not, the most known space program that is currently active. One of the most successful projects was the “Space Race”. In this essay I will discuss what happened on the political side, the economical side, and the social/public side of this event and race to beat and get ahead of Russia and their launch of Sputnik 1.

The space race begun in 1957 with the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union. In addition, the United States aerospace innovation was considerably prompted by the government’s steady upward ratcheting of requirements for the acceleration, efficiency, and performance based on speedily evolving project requirements. “Fifteen thousand workers had arrived on the outskirts on (the city of) Sacramento” (pg.55) in California due to the rising aerospace industry. David Beers

The Space Race was a time of great exploration, and created many new techniques in the studies of science and technology. Many new techniques of engineering and technological advances resulted as positives of the Space Race. The cause of this great exploration and learning was fueled by rivalry and competitiveness of two governments, the Soviet Union and The United States. The Soviet Union and the United States were in a race to see which could reach space supremacy first. This rivalry unfolded in front of millions of spectators, and instilled a sense of competiveness into the viewers. During the mid nineteen-sixties, the achievements of the United States space program caused them to leap ahead of the Soviet Union space program, which was very unexpected. The achievements by the United States during the Space Race in the nineteen-sixties created a gap in space exploration between the Soviet Union space program and the United States space program because the United States was able extremely motivated by government forces and was able to achieve great technological advances in their space crafts.

During the what is considered to be the most heated section of the Space Race during 1960s, it was a NASA Administrator named James Webb who held fast, determined and calling upon all his skills, he went on to push the U.S. rocket program past seemingly never ending political barriers, far beyond the outstretched hands of jealous rivals, and forward on to success. James Edwin Webb was only the second administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, established semi-recently in 1958. NASA was created with the idea that the United States could develop a state-of-the-art space exploration program that would go on to outdo, and unravel the Soviet Union's program. The U.S. was quickly sinking into the swamp that was the Cold

In 1965, NASA’s annual budget was $5.2 billion; this money was spent to heat up the Space Race (“Project Apollo”). The Space Race and its competitive nature is best illustrated in this passage from John F. Kennedy’s Address at Rice University on the nation's space effort, “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too” (“John F. Kennedy”). The launch of the Soviet satellite, Sputnik 1, was the event that began the Space Race (The First 13). It was launched on October 4, 1957 (Taylor, Roberts, and Bullock 2451; “The Space Race”). This metallic sphere created the panic of the Sputnik Crisis and the missile gap (Commager 628; Taylor, Roberts, and Bullock 2451; The First 13). Two products of the Sputnik Crisis were the National Defense Education Act and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (“A Brief;” Apollo to the moon 19-20; The First 25). From that point on, the race was on. Although the Soviet Union had a head start in the Space Race, the United States caught up with and surpassed them because of their advanced education system, the German engineers, technology from the Second World War, and their different types of government and economic systems.

Paragraph 1: The space race was a key factor to the development of spaceflight capability. This competition between the United States and the USSR for supremacy in spaceflight efficiency began on August 2, 1955. When the United States said that they would launch artificial satellites in the future, the Soviet Union acted quickly by beating the U.S. with the the October 4, 1957 “Sputnik,” that orbited the Earth every 98 minutes with its elliptical path. The U.S. was impacted dramatically, science became a priority in schools and universities

The Russians now had the power to launch missiles along with the U.S and Europe. About a month later, they launched Sputnik 2 with a dog inside named Laika(The Great Space Race).They wanted to send a dog up there because they wanted to send a living thing to space. They didn’t use a human because they felt it was too dangerous, and they were right. It was launched successfully but the air grew too hot and she died from overheating. It was kept from the people, but she became a hero appearing on postal stamps and cigarette packages. In the U.S, the Navy tried to send a rocket into space, but failed. Now Von Braun had his chance to send another rocket named Jupiter C. In 1958, Von Braun sent it up in a storm but his team did not get any signal from it and Von Braun began to despair since he thought he failed again. Then, they heard from the rocket, they now had a second satellite in orbit. Soon after this, President Eisenhower established NASA and had a project named Mercury. The goal was to put a man into space(The Great Space Race). Both countries then went looking for a person to send into space. The U.S.A. picked seven men, and they became celebrities overnight. On April 9, 1959, the seven men voted on a man named Alan Shepard to be the first man in

The book, The Shattering Sky, by Erin Hunter, is a very good book. It is about how foreign cats from outside of the forest that are brutal and destroyed Skyclan, and old cat clan, came over to the Forest clans. Their Leader, DarkTail, was a very smart individual. He knew how to fight cats and how to teach them. Some new information I learned today was that DarkTail, a treacherous cat, is actually OneStar's son. Onestar was a very good and respected leader of WindClan. Onestar was even known to all the clans that he was brave and strong. In the text, Alder Paw says, “Onestar was the most respected and bravest leader of all time” ( Erin 158). Even a cat from another clan was saying that Onestar was a good cat. Onestar basically disowned Darktail

In conclusion, the book Last Flight, by Amelia Earhart, portrayed a critical moment in American History; traditional viewpoints were challenged, aviation became ingrained in the American culture, and women became major players in the ‘American Dream.’ Amelia Earhart’s accomplishments have jarring similarities to Valentina Tereshkova –the first woman in space, orbiting the earth forty-eight times. She put the previous four American astronauts – all male – to shame with their combined total of thirty-six. These

It was in the midst of the Cold War that the race for the conquest of outer space began. After the launch of soviet satellite Sputnik in 1957, events moved rapidly for the development of The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in hopes of the United States gaining ground in this race. About 5 decades after NASA’s doors opened, it has become one of the world’s leading agent in the exploration of space. An important part of this exploration was The Space Shuttle Program. These shuttles were to provide transport for satellites to orbit earth and a lab for scientific experiments. After 30 years of shuttle flight, the program was shut down on July 21, 2011 with the safe landing of the shuttle Atlantis. During these years 135 shuttle missions took place, flying about 600 astronauts into outer space. These space shuttles that weighed around 78,100 pounds when empty consisted of two solid rocket