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Duck Soup was a movie that came out on November 17, 1933. This was approximately three years into the American Great Depression, with a broken economy and unemployment rate at its highest of 25 percent. This was a time when America was at its all-time low. Duck Soup is a movie made as a direct representation of America during the Great Depression. The writers purposely made it a comedy because the audience would get the joke. In Duck Soup, Rufus T. Firefly becomes the president of the country…

The movie Apollo 13 is based upon a true story and tells the story of one of the most famous NASA space missions. It features the Apollo 13 mission to the moon commanded by astronauts James Lovell and his two other crew members, John Swigert and Fred Haise. The movie depicts the mission of the Apollo 13, while also including the accounts and events that took place. The movie follows closely to the story and differs from the real event in only a few ways. Some of these include Ken Mattingly’s…

At 12:33am EST on 7 December 1972, the final manned lunar mission, Apollo 17, launched from launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center using a Saturn V rocket. Being a J-Series Apollo mission, it lasted 12 days, 13 hours, 51 minutes and 59 seconds with Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt. The landing site Taurus-Littrow highlands and valley area was chosen due to the suspected presence of rocks both older and newer (due to…

Shifting its weight from side to side, the sugar-covered Northern gannet holds its short wings aloft, preparing to jump from a rugged boulder. After a careful scope of the diamond-crusted sea below, the white adventurer tenses before leaping from the mossy cliff. Briefly the gannet plunges--flapping its wings determinately until the stiff breeze lifts its stout form above the salty ocean spray. Swiftly rising through the clear air, the Northern gannet angles its broad, unmoving wings like a…

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Apollo 13 Maria Awad Mr. Estes American History II, D-block 16 March 2016 On April 11, 1970, the spacecraft, Apollo 13 was launched to go to the moon. Its journey lasted about five days, 22 hours, 54 minutes and 41 seconds and traveled 622,268 miles. It landed April 17, 1970 in the Pacific Ocean (Chaikin, Kohl, and Bean 56). The spacecraft’s crew consisted of: James A. Lovell Jr. as the Commander, Fred W. Haise Jr. as the Lunar Module Pilot, and John L. Swigert Jr. as the Command Module…

Exploration and the Apollo missions. One of the big things in space exploration is trying to find a way to sustain life on another planet. To begin this process they will start on the moon. All the astronauts will land on the moon, they will not leave one in the shuttle. They will begin with 7-day missions until the moon is habitable then will start 180-day missions to get ready for Mars. It will take 1 year in just travel to get to Mars and back to Earth. They are working on 18-month missions…

“The year is 2193. In Kalo, Miditar, a human by the name of Adam Sampson MacGyver had discovered a machine of immeasurable power, developed by Miditaran John Allistur Smith, hidden away in a warehouse. The incident happened only seven solar days after Mr. Smith began scientific rivalries with MacGyver, and, days later, was harmed by the machine after using it as additional household machinery, and attempted to sue John in the Interplanetary Alliance Court. As of right now the Interplanetary…

“I could have been the last person to walk on the moon” He’s a hero to many of us who have followed the world of Apollo. Michael Collins, attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York and afterward began his career in the sky. His first spaceflight was the Gemini 10 mission, where he performed a spacewalk. His second was Apollo 11 the first lunar landing in history. Also the first person to orbit the moon in a Command Module all alone with no communication. His courage and…

It seems like there's always some new mission announcement or groundbreaking discovery on space exploration, but many times we never seem to hear anything more about it. usually it's because planning for and executing missions in outer space takes a huge amount of preparation, it's not uncommon to hear about a proposed mission 5, 10, even 20 years in advance, that being said, we do have some fascinating and exciting space missions lined up over the next few years and decades. let's take a look…