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Prof. 6


For many years there has been an age old debate as to weather Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin really walked on the moon. The story started in the early 1960's when currant president John F. Kennedy challenged Americans by saying that we would place a man on the moon by the time the decade was out. When Richard Nixon was president the decade was in its last few months and the Soviet Union was already planning ways to get to the moon. People wondered if Americans were actually going to make there goal or beat the Soviets. When man landed on the moon in July of 1969 people were thrilled that Americans had kept JFKs promise yet they wondered if the White house had set up a fake moon set just to keep Americans hopes high. Since then there have been a lot of things found that may state that the famous moon landing of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin was a fake.

Some massive findings that people have found have included that in the video of man landing on the moon the American flag that is set into the ground is waving in the wind. There is only one problem, on the moon there is no wind. People have also noticed that in the photos of the moon landing there are no stars in the background. The Astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission claimed that they didn’t see any stars so that may not affect the conspiracy but I have a hard time believing that you couldn't have seen stars from the moon being stars in space are quite hard to miss. One last thing that NASA did to help disprove the theories just made the conspiracy more interesting. There are tons and tons of photos of Neil and Buzz on the moon. How could 121 photos be taken if there were only three people actually there on the moon to take the photos. That raises the thought that there may have been producers taking numerous photos of the set.

There are only a handful of people in the world that actually know what happened on that famous day. With a conspiracy as big as this one there is always going to be people proving there cases in favor of one way or another. Although we may never know the truth it is always great to think of if man actually did ever walk on the moon.










Bibliography

• "Moon landing conspiracy theories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.





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Prof 3.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
9:07 AM
    Orion the Hunter = Orian the Hunter has a club in the right hand ready to strike and a shield in the left hand ready to protect from danger. A sword hangs from his belt that is marked with three bright stars that are located on the celestial equator. In mythology Orion was the son of poseidon, the god of the sea. Orion was also known to go hunting with his two dogs (canis major and canis minor). Their constellations are best known as the great dog (the constellation with only 2 stars) and the little dog. As for scientific findings that have been found in Orian something called the great nebula  was found under orians belt. It is a vast star that has been explored by the Hubble space telescope. There is also a nebula inside orian called the horse head being it looks like a horse head.
    Scorpios = Legend says that Orion told the goddess Artemis that he would kill all living animals on Earth. Even though Artemis enjoyed hunting she offered for protection of all animals. Artemis latter sent scorpious to go kill Orion which he latter did.
    Leo the lion = Leo the lion is believed to be a replica of the body of the sphinx from Ancient Egypt. Leo was the lion that fought with Hercules and latter was sent to the moon where the legend says that he lived in a cave and waited to capture his prey. From an astrology standpoint the sun passes through Leo between  August 10th to September 16th.
    Hercules = This constellation can be seen in the Northern hemisphere in the spring. Hercules was a great Warrior in Greek Mythology. He was best know for two things. Not only was Hercules the son of Zeus, his defining moment was when he was famously attacked by two snakes ordered to kill him by Zeus's wife Hera and was able to fend them both off. Following his victory he became a well liked warrior by the gods.
    My own constellation  (The Mr. Roehl Bangy Thing)With constellations many people predict many different theories of what Greek mythology stories may have occurred over time yet I do not think all predictions are correct. The way I see it is that when Airtimes told Scorpios to kill Orian with his mighty tale he was instead telling him to I get the bill for Ryan's purchases of the mighty wale. There was one reason in particular why Scorpios misheard  her request and it was because of the Constellation The Mr. Roehl Bangy Thing. You see in ancient times Greek god Mrstious. Reohlious was traveling through space and once he had passed past Artemes in this crucial time in history he was again banging his bangy thingy therefore there will always be the bangy thing constellation in space to show the real story.
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Asimov, Isaac. Our Milky Way and other galaxies . A Gareth Stevens children's books ed. Milwaukee: G. Stevens Pub., 1988. Print.


  • bursts, eliminating the local neutron star explanation for gamma-ray. "Andromeda Project." Welcome to Space Radiation Lab, Caltech. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2011. <http://www.srl.caltech.edu/andromeda























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Technology Advancements timeline

Friday, February 04, 2011
8:58 AM

1900 In the time period around 1900 a Russian high school teacher named Konstantin Tsiolkovsky invents the first ever rocket and says ''The Earth is a cradle of mankind but one does not have to live in a cradle forever.'' Although his rockets did not shoot far he proved that there may be a way to someday enter space.

1945 Towards the end of World war two the Germans invented a rocket called the V-2 that had the ability to carry explosives. Following the V-2 the Americans hired 127 of the best German rocket scientist to work for them.

1957 In 1957 the first object was sent into space when the satellite sputnik 1, a soviet satellite that was about the size of a basketball orbited the Earth for 57 days until burning up in the Earths atmosphere. Two months later Sputnik 2 carried a dog named Laika into space making Laika the first living thing to enter space.

1958 Following the tension, the Soviet Union and the Americans entered the cold war that marked a so called competition between the Soviets and Americans to see who would prevail the most in space technology. The Americans in 1958 were able to launch a satellite of their own into space but it still was after the Soviets had.

1961 In April of 1961 the first man to ever orbit Earth was a soviet named Yuri Gagarin who had a space flight that lasted 108 minutes. Then in May of that year John F. Kennedy states that ''We will have a man on the moon by the time the decade is out''.

1962 John Glen Became the first American to orbit space but his feat still stated that the Soviets were ahead in the race.

1969 Finally after almost a decade of failures the Americans thought that they may not be able to prevail in president Kennedy's promise but at last they did. On July 20th 1969 Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first Americans to set foot on the moon and also proved that the Americans were back on top in the race.

1981 After winning the space race the Americans had no reason to continue space travel but that did not stop NASA. On April 12th of 1981 on the 20th anniversary of the first man entering space NASA launched the Columbia which was the first space shuttle. Since then NASA has completed 100 successful missions.

1998 The construction began on the international space station began. The station will be able to hold multiple astronauts at a time and will allow them to explore space like never before.


Reflection= As you can see Space technology has increased substantially since the first rocket was built. Space achievements have included some of the most historic moments in American and World history. Whether there may be a conspiracy or disadvantage that some mission may have had in the end the missions that the world has had have truly been great ones.

Future? = There is no way of telling what accomplishments will occur next but there is one large prediction that I have. One is that being we now have the international space station we will be able to send more and more people into space and since we can do that we may be able to see if humans will be able to possibly live on Mars. It has been for a long time a debate as to whether water or aliens may have once lived on Mars and there have been things that have proved that that could be true or untrue. Even if there is a question as to whether it is true or not I think it is worth a shot to find out. Therefore my prediction would be that in about 30 years or so from now we may have people not only entering space but finding places to live in space to escape a planet that may become to populated.



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Holt science & technology: Astronomy.. Austin: Holt, Rinehart And Winston, 2005. Print.



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