A Visit to the Saturn V Rocket

In the fifties and sixties, television programs were full of the idea of going to space. On December 6, 1957 the Vanguard rocket, which America was waiting for to salve the national pride, was fired. It began to rise and then was sinking back down to Cape Canaveral. It was an erupting into a huge fireball, the pathetic crash was filmed on live television. People began to lose hope; the Russians were heading towards the heavens while they were still on the ground (Document

The second artwork I chose to evaluate is Romare Bearden's Rocket to the Moon. This collage uses black and white as well as color. Bearden used warm colors throughout the collage and unified everything very nicely. Throughout this artwork a square pattern is visible making everything well balanced. You can see the pattern on the windows, bricks on the walls, and the actual buildings themselves. There is some implied motion also visible in the small rocket at the very top of this collage. It is as if the rocket is taking off to the moon on the upper right hand side. The moon implies that this scene possibly takes place at night but, it seems to be a very well lit day. A lot seems to be going on in this scene but, the focal point are the people

On July 16, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins began their journey towards the moon’s surface in the Apollo 11 operation. By July 19, the men entered the lunar orbit. July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin descended towards the moon on the lunar module, the Eagle, while Collins remained in the command module (“The Space Race”). On this day, Armstrong “became the first man to walk on the moon’s surface; he famously called the moment ‘one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’” (“The Space Race”). After docking and rejoining Collins, Apollo 11 successfully returned home. Russia was unable to match this feat, as they failed four lunar landing attempts between the years 1969 and 1972 (“The Space Race”). The U.S. had officially won the space race.

For this assignment, I chose to write about the Apollo missions that took place in the late 1960s. My father was in the United States Air Force and, for years, he was stationed at Patrick Air Force Base. PAFB is less than 25 miles south of Cape Canaveral, also known as Cape Kennedy. We lived in a one-story duplex in military housing for enlisted personnel. With my siblings and other kids in the neighborhood, we climbed on top of our home and watched the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo manned missions as they climbed high into the Florida sky. As I write this, my arms are covered with goose bumps as I realize that I was witnessing history. It was not until years after watching these launches that I came to appreciate that my father was a part

The autobiography Rocket Boys tells the true-to-life story of Homer ‘Sonny’ Hickam Jr., a young boy with a love of books, freedom, and rocket science who is living in Coalwood, West Virginia, a small mining town during the mid-20th century. Unlike his football-playing brother Jim, Sonny has no chance of a sports scholarship, yet he desperately does not want to end up stuck in Coalwood like his father, the Coalwood mining company foreman. After almost giving up on a scholarship, Sonny watches the Russian satellite ‘Sputnik’ fly into orbit on television and stays up all night waiting to see it in the sky, inspiring him to send something into the heavens himself. After being inspired by ‘Sputnik,’ Sonny, with the help of a group of boys called

Living in Tennessee we are very close to Huntsville, Alabama where the rockets were developed for the space program. There is a huge museum in Huntsville where there is a Saturn 5 rocket standing up, and in a building, next to it there is one disassembled laying on its side. These are both large man made vehicles that allowed men to go to the moon. In the museum, there is a space capsule that has return from space all burned and scorched from reentry of Apollo 16.

Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut is a memoir written by Astronaut Mike Mullane. Throughout his memoir, Mullane takes readers on a journey spanning the majority of his life – adventuring across southwest America with his parents and siblings, camping out under the stars and making homemade rockets, attending West Point and serving in the United States Airforce – all the way up to his retirement from the United States Air Force and The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). However, from the minutia of desk life to the thrill of his three Space Shuttle missions, it is his detailed and unique insight during his time as a NASA astronaut that composes the majority of his story and is especially intriguing.

At the beginning of our party we would launch these rockets that one of my friend’s grandpa would always make. Most of the time he tried making rockets as tall as he was. These rockets were white and had a red nose, it always reminded me of the real life big rockets that we would send into space with. He would make plenty of other smaller rockets with an assortment of different shapes, size, and color. The ones that would always go the furthest, I would always remember that.

Multifaceted and interfacial, it is neither an analogy nor a metaphor, it does not accommodate so much symbolic theaters as rituals which produce a machinic unconscious through noncommunicative, asignifying particles “waiting for the right connections to be set up, to be switched on . . . modified, precisely, deliberately by bombing that was never hostile,” (520) as envisioned by Enzian, the leader of the Schwarzkommando in his futile quest for the holy Text initially taken for the V-2 Rocket. Put differently, there are no opposite sides to agree upon a plan or a priori intentions of transcending agencies over actions, which does not eliminate the act of planning but uproots and connects it to autonomous expressions and contents with their

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, Four and half tons of fuel, and a spider-shaped spaceship covered with gold and silver foil.

Saturn’s Titan: Voyage to the Mystery Moon goes over NASA’s mission to Saturn and its moon, Titan. The mission’s goal: look for clues to the origins of life. The film was a great overview of the mission to Saturn and Titan, and watching it was very informative.

Rockets made its face around 100 B.C. Sir Isaac Newton made a foundation for modern space during 1642 to 1727. He came up with three scientific laws to understand the physical motions. The laws he came up shows how rockets work and how they are capable to work in the outer space. Scientist in Germany and Russia started to work with rockets and they were so powerful that exhaust flames bored deep in the ground before takeoff. Then 19th century rockets were known as weapons of war. A Russian scientist, Konstantin T, had an idea to explore space. He thought by using liquid propellants for rockets that it would give the rocket great range. Unfortunately, Konstantin passed before seeing if his idea could happen but in early 20th century, an American scientist named, Robert H. Goddard, conducted an experiment to use rockets. Goddard try out both solid and liquid propellant rocket to see which one was better. He that liquid propelled better. The V-2 rocket was developed by Verein fur Raumschiffahrt, which was use against London in World War 2. The United States and the Soviet Union concerned potential rocketry as a military weapon. One of Goddard idea was used in a program to see the high altitude sounding of

Robert Goddard is known as the first rocket scientist to successfully propel a rocket using liquid fuel. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 5, 1882. Through Goddard’s childhood, he was interested in science. “Interested in science as a child, Goddard became intrigued by space after reading H. G. Wells' science fiction novel, "The War of the Worlds."” (American Father of Rocketry). Goddard’s parents had also encouraged him in the subject of science. “Robert was the son of a traveling salesman who also dabbled at inventing, and both parents encouraged their son's interest in science.” (The Father of Modern Rocketry) Goddard went to Worcester Polytechnic Institute for his degree in science. “Goddard enrolled as a student at Worcester

As humanity prepares to move from the earth to other planets it must do it safely. A manned mission to Mars is the next step in the human exploration of space. The major hurdles to accomplish this feat are vast and varying in type. You must define and insure the architecture for your launch, spacecraft, travel to and from Mars, and of course astronaut safety. An effective mission architecture must provide a particular kind of balance between accomplishing the critical parameters and being prepared. This paper will cover how the architecture is designed for success towards transporting humans through space, landing them on Mars, and returning them safely home.

Gunpowder-propelled military rockets appeared in Europe sometime in the 13th century, and in the 19th century British engineers made several important advances in early rocket science. In 1903, an obscure Russian inventor named Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky published a treatise on the theoretical problems of using rocket engines in space, but it was not until Robert Goddard’s work in the 1920s that anyone began to build the modern, liquid-fueled type of rocket that by the early 1960s would be launching humans into