July 13

The Martian The Martian is arguably one of my favorite books because of the fantastic tone and character development. The Martian follows Mark Watney, a scientist who majored in botany and mechanical science. He get stranded on mars after a dust storm knocks out communications with NASA and the rest of his crew leaves when they believe he is dead from shrapnel in the storm. I really love this book for several reasons. He then needs to find a way to survive almost 4 years on Mars with little to no

The movie “Gravity” starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney was about a medical engineer Dr.Ryan Stone(Sandra Bullock) on her first shuttle mission with her commander Matt Kowalsky(George Clooney) and it is his last flight to space before his retirement. During the journey, disaster strikes leaving Ryan and Matt stranded in space with absolutely no connection to Earth. There shuttle is destroyed and the other astronauts died, leaving Matt and Ryan the only two that survive. Until only one of them

Another issue society could have perceived as ‘frightening’ about Kubrick’s HAL is the way that the futuristic technological advancements allow him to be programmed. Every comment, remark and conversation that the crew make is registered and interpreted by HAL. He is being programmed subconsciously, simply by what happens in his environment. Our initial impressions of HAL would lead us to the conclusion that he has picked up only positive emotional traits, like happiness, respect, sympathy and a

On a late afternoon on July 1st, the MARTI and Space Academy members joined together to listen to a speech given by NASA Administrator, Charles Bolden at the Ohio University down in Athens, Ohio. Charles Bolden is a retired Major General from the USMC, and had a 34 year career as a naval aviator in the USMC. He also spent 14 years as a NASA Astronaut. His flights into space included the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope and the first joint U.S.-Russian shuttle mission, which featured a cosmonaut

The movie “Apollo 13” is a great example of the different styles of leadership and conflict management presented by the main characters like Gene Kranz, Jim Lovell, Frank Borman, Ken Mattingly, and Jack Swigert. The first scene there Gene Kranz, the main commander of the Houston Control Center is informed by the medical staff member that three of the Apollo 13 crew members removed their biomedical sensors from their body being tired of western world, represents “Laissez- Faire” leadership

Apollo 13 begins in 1969. Astronaut Jim Lovell thinks of how close he came to the moon when he was orbiting it on Apollo 8, and thinks about one day setting foot on the moon for himself. His wife is thinking about the opposite, She fears for her husband's safety. Months later the astronauts of Apollo 13 received news that due to an ear-infection by one of the Apollo 13 crew members, he and his crew members have been bumped up to complete the mission. Jim and his crew members attend a small press

Apollo 13 was supposed to be the third space mission to the moon. However, an explosion in two of the oxygen tanks made landing on the moon safely, impossible. That oxygen tank was previously installed on Apollo 10 but removed because it was damaged. It was fixed, tested then installed on the Apollo 13 spacecraft. Before the spacecraft took off multiple tests were performed on both oxygen tanks. To do this the oxygen tanks are emptied to half full the first oxygen tank preformed normally but the

It all started on April 11,1970 when the Apollo 13 crew took off for the third lunar landing mission. This mission was obviously a successful take off at Cape canaveral florida carrying three astronauts by the names James A. Lovell, John L Swigert, and Fred W.Haise. These men were supposed to be the fifth and sixth men to walk on the moon. After being several miles away from earth one of the oxygen tanks blew which caused tragedy for the space crew. The supply of oxygen that is now gone was their

Today, when flying spacecraft no pilot desires to be interrupted unless of an absolute emergency, however on Apollo 8, the pilots was disturbed for a plethora of silly reasons besides emergencies. Myriad astronauts from America have died going into space, thus, Boardman, who would pilot Apollo 8 into space was slightly nervous. Moreover, Apollo 8 would be launched from its plant in Downey California, where the newer versions of the ship type were being crafted. Boardman was offered to get launched

Leanne Sarah Holland born 1st October 1978 was a 12-year-old girl from Goodna, Queensland, found murdered. Her body was discovered on Thursday, 26th September 1991 at 1.42 pm down a dirt track. The track was 8.9 kilometres from her Goodna home in nearby Redbank Plains. Holland lived with her dad Terry, older sister Melissa and sisters de-facto partner Graham.Graham Stuart Stafford was a 28 year old sheet metal worker from Goodna, Queensland. On 25th March 1992, he was sentenced to 15 years to life