Personal Narrative: The International Space Rocket

Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut is a memoir written by Astronaut Mike Mullane. Throughout his memoir, Mullane takes readers on a journey spanning the majority of his life – adventuring across southwest America with his parents and siblings, camping out under the stars and making homemade rockets, attending West Point and serving in the United States Airforce – all the way up to his retirement from the United States Air Force and The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). However, from the minutia of desk life to the thrill of his three Space Shuttle missions, it is his detailed and unique insight during his time as a NASA astronaut that composes the majority of his story and is especially intriguing.

When I joined my high school's Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps in my freshman year, the model rocketry team was near the bottom of the list of extracurricular activities I was interested in. Instead, I was interested in the cool military-like activities, like drill or marksmanship. As I spent more time in the JROTC, however, I found that the team that I was the least interested in were the ones that suited me the best. The team had simple goals that turned out to be interestingly complicated as I became better at their activities.

That fear stems from the natural fight or flight reaction our body has to protect us from serious harm. The fear I'm talking about is the fear that we learned as children. It's the fear we learned from society and the situations we had to go through. It's the fear that brainwashes our minds and tells us we aren't worth that risk, that we will fail. This is an unnatural fear and whether we know it or not, it rules our lives in many

One day my 6th grade class took a field trip to NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and saw many prodigious spacecrafts but the only one I rejoice in Atlas V rocket. This particular rocket is the fastest rocket and feels very pleasant to use. So I sat in it and took a close look of the rocket, took selfies and all the gears. Suddenly the teacher called me.

Fear is an unpleasant feeling which is caused by the awareness of danger according to me. It is something that everyone has to manage no matter what; fear will be fear. Our lives are significantly formed by fears. We cannot escape from the experience of fear and pain. Everyone has their own fears but no matter how people look at it, they all overcome their apprehensions. People have different types of phobias. They are afraid of water, spiders, ghosts, etc. Even I am scared about such things. You know how there’s always that one kid who’s always terrified of something? Always jumping at the next unsuspecting sound? He is even afraid of his own shadow? Well, I was one of those kids. When I was 10 I had a nightmare. I saw that something was

Fear is an unusual feeling that you get in your stomach it's something that everyone has, I have a fear of failing. Failing is like falling into a really deep hole with nothing but pitch black. Sometime when I get a failing grade I beat myself up I think that all the compliment and rewards that people gave to me are wasted because I fail. Often I try to analyze the situation and the thing that I did to deserve this grade, sometime I study past my bedtime for upcoming test. My brother said” with all that studying you should get great grades.” thinking and laugh in my empty mind saying “ I try so hard but it's does really matter.”

In my life I have never seen so much untrustworthiness in my life. Until I came back to school to get my degree in aviation management. I will be jumping around a little as I go and I apologize. I have a very big discomfort with some of the pilots I have met. First, I will discuss my feelings about the school I currently attend. Second, I will address the maintenance scare in the industry. Lastly, I will discuss the pilot scares that have arose.

Sometimes fear takes control, but to learn how to understand why can be the scariest part. I had nightmares of skydiving or falling from the sky without a parachute, I will wake up, and it would be difficult to sleep again. I learn the only way to win is to nip it and I went on my first airplane ride for 15-hours.

Conceivably, everyone experiences some degree of fear at some point in their life. For instance, whether it is flying for the first time or taking their drivers test, the list can go on and on as to what people fear. On the other hand, however, when clinicians are noticing fear or anxiety occurring the majority of the time regardless of the situation and preventing someone from participating in family activities, job related tasks or interferes with other activities

Fear is a barrier that stands in the way of success. Fear beats down on people and convinces them that reaching their dreams and accomplishing their goals is impossible and will only lead to failure and embarrassment. If left unchecked fear causes people to live their whole lives shut in, never going out in the world or accomplishing anything. According to Brian Tracy, a motivational speaker and self- development author, “The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.” (Tracy) Unfortunately, too many people in this world let the focus on fear take over and never accomplish anything. Fear only serves as an obstacle to success, there is no benefit to it. Fear is not what keeps people from leaping off of buildings, or diving into fires. Common sense is what tells people not to do these reckless and dangerous things. Fear is what keeps people from asking for the raise, or starting their business, or picking the major for the profession that they truly love. Fear is the nagging voice in people’s heads telling them they can never succeed and are better off doing nothing; successful people are the ones who are able to ignore this voice and continue on despite it.

Fear is something that large amounts of people have encountered at least once at some point in their lives. It has been said to have caused a variety of outcomes, many of them being largely negative. Therefore, it is a common human response to react to fear by counteracting it with positivity and/or success. The idea people have of what fear is depends on the person. In the article “How Fear Works”, for example, fear is defined as a “chain reaction in the brain that starts with a stressful stimulus and ends with the release of chemicals” (Layton 1). The website “Psychology Today” defines fear another way, calling it “a vital response to physical and emotional danger” ("Fear Paranoia”). There are several other definitions people have on the

There have been many instances in my life where the fear monster has stared me down or hides in the dark corner of my mind, menacing me every chance it gets. It tells me things like, you will never be good enough or something bad will happen if you take a chance. Every time I try to plant some seeds of courage, by telling myself everything is going to be ok and you can do this, fear swoops in and washes them all away. Fear has been the negative force in my life, effecting a lot of important decisions I 've had to make. There was a moment in my life where I was able to gather the courage to forge through the fear and decided to go back to college.

In the dictionary, the term fear is defined by an unpleasant often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger. The issue faced by many, though, is the fact that being afraid of exploring the unknown is often brought upon the possibility of failure. We first began our journey at Perry Central feeling nervous, anxious, or scared by not knowing the other students who would occupy the same hallways and classrooms as we would. We, as individuals, walked into the doors of PC facing students from Beaumont, Runnelstown, and New Augusta. As a result, we all had the tendency to be shy the first day of high school, but as the hours and days continued, however, we quickly realized just how loud we truly are; or how loud Taylor and Xena truly

Fear is a constant temptation in this life. Fear is a feeling or emotion that we must address and confront on a regular basis. Fear travels the globe and ensnares human minds at times like a slowly spreading flame that can grow into a powerful and destructive wildfire. Fear can emotionally paralyze humans, cloud judgement and divert the best plans of mankind. Fear can also be life saving when it stops those scared of heights from plummeting off the edge of the Grand Canyon. Fear of failure can propel students forward into success on their projects and studies for school. Fear appears in many different forms, however, fear is a word that unites humanity as we all feel it and are familiar with it.

For instance someone getting arrested their fear would be how long they’re going to be arrested for. Perhaps a student was misbehaving and the teacher calls home. That student who wasn’t fearful while misbehaving now has the fear of knowing his/her parent is going to put them on punishment. Sometimes we don’t even know we fear something until we see the end results. I believe that happens most individuals we show no signs of worry until the very end. For instance we could do a survey on how many individuals would fear what’s going to happen a couple years from now. Most would probably say oh I don’t fear such and such happening because if it never happened before why would if happen then. While others would perhaps say they’ll fear what’s going to happen because life has a lot of surprises.