Moon River

World Moon Project-Essay #1 For the World Moon Project we were supposed to observe the moon on certain key dates. Each moon observation is in chronological order with the date and is recorded in military time. We observed the moon and recorded our Big 5 data. Our first key date was September 22nd. I recorded my Big 5 data at 1837 or 6:37 pm. The shape that I seen was a banana. It was on the right side from about 1 o'clock to about 5 o'clock. The direction that the moon was located at that time

Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders began the first manned journey from the earth to the moon on the Apollo 8. They orbited the moon and returned safely. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon. Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon, and said the iconic words "that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" and placed the American flag on the moon. The Soviet union canceled their lunar program, and the space race was over. The space race is

In 1971 Richard M. Nixon was president at the time. He was elected as President in 1968, won re-election in 1972, and resigned in 1974 after the Watergate scandal. In 1971 a normal house costed about $25,250.00. During this year people drove mustangs, Buggies by volkswagen, and Chevy pickups. Michael Strahan played football in the NFL and he was born in 1971 along with Mark Wahlberg famous actor and Jeff Gordon the famous racecar driver, and Lance Armstrong the philanthropist. On April 19, 1971

I will talk about the Proxima Centauri star and how it was discovered.And why they call it the Earth-like planet.And have any spacecraft’s ever made it there and lots more thing about The Proxima Centauri star. And i will try to answer some of the questions about the Proxima Centauri.So that is what i will be talking about in this paragraph about the Proxima Centauri. The Proxima Centauri was discovered in 1915 by union observatory in johannesburg,South Africa.How was the Proxima discovered it

The Martian is a great science fiction novel written by Andy Wier. The story is set on Mars, where the main character uses technology and his knowledge in science to escape death. The main character of the story is Mark Watney, an astronaut with his team on a mission to Mars to recover samples for reasearch for NASA. When they are taking samples, a storm hits and injures Mark, leaving him unconcious. This makes his team belive that he is dead and left him behind. Mark eventually wakes up, finds a

feeling of warmth like some sort of heat signature is appearing off of the painting itself. The painting gives off a an allusion of a near three dimensional form with its overlapping of the line and color on the astronaut the flag and the surface of the moon. The second painting that attracted my attention at the museum was a painting called “ Barbe du Prevaricatuer [The Beard of the Corrupt

(USSR) becomes the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon, but was closely followed by the soft landing from the Surveyor 1 of the U.S. Lunar Orbiter 1 (U.S.) enters orbit around the Moon and takes the first picture of the Earth from that distance. Gemini 12, the last flight of the Gemini Program, launches in November 1966. The Venera 4 (USSR) transmitted data about the atmosphere of Venus, which led to the USSR launching the Zond 5 around the Moon and returning to Earth six days later. In January of

For many years, Pluto was considered the ninth planet in the Solar System. Unfortunately, Pluto is now labeled as a dwarf planet. Pluto was discovered on February 18, 1930. This planet was named after the Roman god of the Underworld. Pluto was given some nicknames which are Xena and Dwarf Planet. This planet was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh on February 18, 1930. “ In January 2006 NASA launched the first mission to Pluto named New Horizons,” New Horizons reached Pluto in July 2015. People can live

line, Mars. Mars: · Mars rotates once every 24.6 hours. · Mars has two small moons called Phobos and Deimos Moving onto Jupiter Jupiter: · Jupiter is the biggest planet in the Solar System · Jupiter is mostly made up of Hydrogen and Helium which makes up 99% of the atmosphere. Next, Saturn. Saturn: · Saturn has many rings surrounding the planet which were discovered in 1610 · Saturn has 53 known moons with a possible 9 other

first manned missions to the moon. There were a few different motivations in the purpose of these missions. A few of those purposes were to beat others to the moon, establish technology to advance other space interests, carry out exploration of the moon, and develop man’s ability to work in a lunar environment. All together there were 12 missions launched with 6 being successful in reaching the moon. There wasn’t really one particular question they had in going to the moon. There was so much to be discovered