Essays on Moon Landing

The Cold War: Space Race

Introduction The final frontier in the exploration of man during the 20th century was space. For decades, the man had been intrigued by the vastness and the boundlessness of his surroundings. The untapped cradle that formed the home to the planet remained a mystery to man. It was this fascination that created the basis for space exploration even as the man struggled to understand not only his surroundings but also his existence. The desire to understand space created the much needed scientific and technological advancement of humanity. In an effort to understand and conquer space, the man helped advance ...

Going through the book “Curious reader” I have come across very interesting issues I had no or less idea about. Among the articles I come across were:

Hodgman, Ann. “No wonder they call me a bitch“ The Curious Reader. (2009)

This is an informative article on various kinds of dog food. It’s a commentary essay on low nutritional and bad taste in the dog food quality. She describes and compares the bad taste of food with play Doh. She vividly ridiculous all the promotion advertisement slogans and tactics linked with dogs foods. Mainly she opposes all the strategies ...

- Introduction The Apollo missions were a series of space flights planned and implemented in the 1960’s and early 1970’s by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to achieve circumlunar flight and ultimately a moon landing. The vehicles used to achieve these goals comprised a Saturn V rocket as the launch vehicle, carrying atop the initially-combined Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM).

- The Obstacles The first and important obstacle was obtaining the necessary funding for the program. NASA’s budget estimate was originally circa $20 billion needed from government funding. ...

The Cold War was an era of rapid change the world over. The Soviet Union emerged from World War II victorious but weakened by war, needing to find a new path of industrialization and to maintain control of the myriad of satellite states it had collected as spoils; the United States emerged as the leading Western power, largely unaffected by the war, which was not fought on their own territory, and largely complacent with its position at first. Europe aligned itself between the capitalist and communist powers, and became divided by what Winston Churchill famously termed the “Iron Curtain”. The ...