The Discovery Of The Moon

The Apollo 11 mission of 1969 marks the biggest leap in technological advancements for humanity. Neil Armstrong is seen taking the first steps on the moon forever making his mark in humanity. However, theories surrounding the moon landing have come to light. Conspiracy theorists say NASA, the National Aeronautics Space Administration, have faked the Apollo 11 moon landing. Yet, present evidence can support the authenticity of the moon landing. Evidence such as photos, rock samples, technology, and computer monitoring support the moon landing. The moon landing of 1969 did happen.

The Space Race was between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US). The race to space began in 1955. Apollo 11 successfully put the first man on the Moon. The end of the Space Race was in 1975. The Space Race is considered very important because it would show which nation had the best science, technology, and economic system.

Outcroppings of Pine and Birch shifted in the unrelenting wind as if they were the scales on the bodies of primordial dragons attempting to settle their massive forms into the damp ground beneath them. An endless horizon of white edged waves bit at the tails of one another in a crashing cacophony until they foamed, frothed and broke against the shore.

The night crawled quickly as the sun sank from the horizon. But there was hardly any sign of the star’s presence, only a shadowed moon, struggling for supremacy over the dark heavy clouds that rolled over the top.

Explorer 1 was America’s first satellite. It was under the direction of Dr. William H. Pickering but designed and built by Dr. James Van Allen. It was launched on January 31, 1958. Explorer 1 was launched on Cape Canaveral by the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. It was launched atop of Juno 1 which was a modified Jupiter-C booster. Explorer 1 was much smaller than the Sputniks, only 30.66 pounds, but It made the first important discovery about the space environment. It discovered an existence of a belt of charged particles which is called the Van Allen Belts. Explorer 1’s external skin of instrument section was painted in alternate strips of white and dark green because it would provide passive temperature control of the

I chose to research the Apollo mission. NASA didn't want just to go to the moon and come back. They had goals that would help others through this mission. Nasa wanted to establish technology to meet other national interests in space. They wanted to know more about the space and not just about the moon. Through these missions NASA has learned more than all the missions done in the past.Another goal that NASA had was to achieve preeminence in space for the United States. The United States set a standard for space exploration. Another goal was to carry out a program of scientific exploration of the Moon. It means that they are doing this program to learn more about the Moon and about what there is on it. I am so glad to study what NASA has done

I chose to do the Apollo missions. The Apollo missions we all named the same but with different numbers. Like Apollo 7 or Apollo 16. But there was no real number. The missions to the moon weren't all the same. Some of the missions that went up to the moon were caring people on board and some of the missions were just to get a unmanned aircraft into space to mostly deliver supplies that they might need on the moon. The Apollo 8 was the one that landed successfully onto the moon. These missions wouldn’t have happened without a lot of people. A lot of people just look at the people that went into space and think “wow they did something really cool” but it also takes a lot of work coming from the people that are down below. The people that are

Awe. Light is not beautiful without darkness. My Dad and I stepped outside the cabin into the wee hours of a crisp autumn morning. We were to prepare for a fishing derby that would begin at sunrise and walked down a dark gravel road toward the docks. Already tired to begin with, the freezing mountain air made me even more tired which made be even more cold. The wind blew the terrible odor of a dumpster our way which made the walk even more unbearable. Then, something caught my eye. Through the almost bear trees above me, I saw a canopy filled with stars glimmering through. I found myself face to face with the universe in a cosmic desert, each star a grain of sand.

A bird flies wildly about, twisting and diving. It is panicked, trying to escape the boy on the ground below, who hurls small, painful missiles at it from a slingshot. The creature of the air is a splendid sight; the wings are as if covered in jade paint and the tips dipped in a ferocious scarlet. The breast is a majestic solid blue, its throat a sulphur yellow. And the head and the tail both are a livid, dark purple: beautiful.

On the First Day of the Fifth Moon, denizens all around the castle were startled when the usually calm home was disrupted by loud noises and various colors of light within the sky. The sudden commotion caused people to depart what activities they had been doing to travel where the disturbance was the loudest. Inside the Gate Courtyard, denizens and the Royal Army stood, watching and waiting for something to reveal itself as the reason behind the disquietude of the sky. Just as they were to move for an exit, green and purple lights zoomed through the sky and landed in the courtyard with a boom.

20% of the world are convinced that the Apollo 11 moon-landing in July 20, 1969 was faked. For the past several decades, a small group of NASA-watching sleuths has repeatedly tried to pawn off the incredulous idea that the Apollo Moon program really was an elaborate, $30 billion hoax filmed in a movie studio. This group believes the United States needed to cement its world leadership during the Cold War by pretending to pull off what really was a technologically impossible stunt (Villard, 2004). If actor Orson Welles was able to convince over one million Americans that martians were invading Earth, there’s no doubt the more-powerful government could persuade U.S. citizens and keep the entire moon landing hoax a secret.

1. "Apollo Moon Rocks." Curators Chioce. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. 15 Oct. 2007 http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/cchoice/moonrocks/moonrocks3.htm.

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My face is pressed up against the cool glass. Beads of sweat collect on the back of my neck and on the palms of my hands, from excitement and nervousness. I stare out at the billions of stars in the galaxy, but I'm only looking for one. A heavy sigh, escapes from my lips. I can vividly remember the forbidden photos, of the mysterious planet. The greens and blues are what I remember the most. There was white and brown too. Others of the photos showed the land, green and blue, pink, and purple. The photos are so very precise, you could see the droplets of water on the leafs of trees, and yellow, brown sap trickling down the body of a tree or the slight flutter of a butterfly wing. The colors are bright, the flowers are glistening, everything

From prehistoric times to the present, ships have held a significant importance for humankind. They serve as a means of travel and exploration that would be otherwise unavailable to us, and much can be learned about how they were constructed by past cultures to fit their needs. The Skuldelev ships are a group of five Viking ships that were excavated in the Roskilde Fjord from 1957 to1962. The discovery of the remains gives us a look at what had once been complex sailing ships, serving different working purposes, and representing a variety of social goals. The ships, had been filled with stones and sunk, possibly to block a sea channel from invaders. These ships display a revolutionary approach to shipbuilding as well as extensive specialization. Early in the excavation process, the idea was to build full-scale reconstructions of the finds: “...by building a faithful copy, using the correct tools and materials, it would be possible to delve into the techniques of shipbuilding in the past. The replica could be sailed to test it for seaworthiness and other sailing qualities” (Olsen and Crumlin-Pedersen 1969:103). Experimental archaeology is an important component of this research. Numerous replicas of Skuldelev ships contributed enormously to our understanding of both the technical aspects of these ships as well as the navigation methods. Why was this approach so important to this site?