countdown to splashdown‚ Apollo 11 ’s mission was filled with some surprising twists and turns. It took a combination of luck‚ determination and guts for the crew of Michael Collins‚ Buzz Aldrin‚ and Neil Armstrong to get the Eagle to the surface of the moon with only 30 seconds of fuel remaining! Experience the moments leading up to the lunar landing with me. On the morning of July 16‚ 1969 a 60-ton Saturn 5 rocket was given a thorough inspection on launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center. On board
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the Apollo moon landing‚ but is that true? First of all‚ what is NASA? The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation’s civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research. One of NASA program was “Apollo”. The Apollo program was the spaceflight effort carried out by the United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)‚ that landed the first humans on Earth’s Moon. Conceived
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we have to recall the moon. The moon is the symbol of the Mid-Autumn festival. The people celebrate the Mid-Autumn festival by doing every thing about the moon. For one thing is to eat the traditional food-moon cakes. The moon cakes were classified into different taste‚ for instance the fruit moon cakes‚ red beans moon cakes and egg yolk moon cakes. It is a traditional custom for people buy moon cakes for each others. For another thing is that‚ people always appreciate the moon‚ when they are drinking
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looked like to be four stars near the bright disk of Jupiter. Galileo quickly realized that these “stars” were actually moons that orbited Jupiter. This discovery was not only important for Jupiter as a planet‚ but this revelation also provided important evidence in support of the Copernican model of the solar system. The four moons that Galileo observed are now called the Galilean moons of Jupiter: Callisto‚ Ganymede‚ Europa‚ and Io. The next big discovery to happen to Jupiter was in the 1660s. Through
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produced by the gravitational attraction of the moon and the sun. Winds and currents move the surface of the water causing waves. The gravitational attraction of the moon causes the oceans to bulge in the direction of the moon. Another bulge occurs on the opposite side because the Earth is also being pulled toward the moon and away from the water on the far side. Ocean levels fluctuate daily as the sun‚ the moon‚ and the earth interact. As the moon travels around the earth and as they‚ together
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The orbit of the Moon around the sun The Moon orbits around the Earth every 27.3 days. The Moon’s orbit around the Earth is not a circular orbit but more of an eclipse and the orientation or the orbit is not fixed but differs in time. The Earth and the Moon are both actually orbiting the sun (the Moon at a much faster rate) but in the process of that orbit the Moon orbits Earth. This process is the main cause of tide formations‚ the neap and spring tides and the phases of the moon. The orbit of
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anxiousness‚ worrisome‚ jittery‚ dizzy‚ shaky‚ irritable‚ lethargic‚ exhausted‚ have short term memory problems and heart palpitations‚ feel nauseous‚ queasy‚ and to have prolonged head pressure and headaches There are two reasons why the Moon (like other moons‚ and Mercury) has so many craters‚ and both are related to its lack of an atmosphere. 1) There is no atmosphere to prevent small-to-medium meteors from striking the surface. On Earth‚ only the largest and densest meteors can make it to
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Moon Cake Festival: A Mid-Autumn Festival (Chung Chiu)‚ the third major festival of the Chinese calendar‚ is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month. This festival corresponds to harvest festival s observed by Western cultures (in Hong Kong‚ it is held in conjunction with the annual Lantern Festival). Contrary to what most people believe‚ this festival probably has less to do with harvest festivities than with the philosophically minded chinese of old. The union of man’s spirit with nature
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In Calvino’s Cosmicomics he manages to merge both the cosmic and comical world throughout his stories‚ especially “The Distance of the Moon.” Referring to his childhood adventures on the moon‚ protagonist Qfwfq says‚ “How well I know!...the rest of you cannot remember‚ but I can. We had her on top of us all the time‚ that enormous Moon; when she was full‚ it looked as if she were going to crush us; when she was new‚ she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella by the wind.” Qfwfq’s story is one
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The Giant Impact Theory is the most recent precise theory for the formation of the moon so far. The Giant Impact Theory says that the moon was created when debris flew into earths orbiting disk from collisions of a small planet with the earth‚ in result the moon formed.(NASA Lunar Scientists Develop New Theory on Earth and Moon Formation). Plus when these objects collided heated materials came out into space from their outermost layers. This theory is proven because when the two bodies collided this
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