Chang-Diaz was the first Costa Rican hispanic to go into space Chang was born on April 5, 1950, in San José, Costa Rica. He graduated ilartford High School in llartford, Connecticut, in 1969 and later attended Colegio De La Salle in San Jose. Costa Rica and graduated in 1967. Chang later received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Connecticut in 1973 While attending the University of Connecticut, he also worked as a research assistant in the Physics Department and participated in the design and construction of high-energy atomic collision experiments. Following graduation in 1973, he entered graduate school at MIT. becoming heavily involved in the United States' controlled fusion program and doing
Jarrod J. Rein is an eighteen-year-old with dark brown hair and brown eyes to match the brown arid dirt of Piedmont, Oklahoma. His skin is a smooth warm tan glow that opposes his white smile making his teeth look like snow. Standing a great height of six foot exactly, his structure resembles a bear. He is attending Piedmont high school where he in his last year of high school (senior year). He is studying to be a forensics anthropologist. Also he is studying early in the field of anatomy to be successful in his profession. While not always on the rise for knowledge Jarrod’s swimming for his high school. In a sense it’s like you see double.
Zuzana Gruenberger was born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia on March 3, 1933. She was the youngest of three children and her most used nickname was Zuzi. Zuzana’s father's occupation was a tailor, and he worked where they lived. When the first Hungarian troops marched into Kosice, Zuzana was five years old. Soon after their arrival the Hungarian troops began to enforce anti-Jewish laws; these laws were said to be welcomed by the Hungarian government.
After his parents' divorce, Carlos moved in with his grandmother and joined the Marine Corps. On his seventeenth birthday his mother signed the waiver allowing him to join the Marines. May 20th, 1959, he took a plane ride to boot camp in San Diego and began the first day of service in an organization that to him became more a family than a career. Later, Carlos flew to Hawaii to be educated b y Lt. E.J. Land. Carlos described the schooling there as a "one-week school, with no field tactics or anything." However in Vietnam, Carlos ...
In 2002 John Bennett Herrington made history as the first member of a federally recognized Native American tribe to reach outer space. Herrington- an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma- as a special tribute to his Native American heritage carried six eagle feathers, a braid of sweet grass, arrowheads, sacred ground and the Chickasaw Nation flag into orbit.
Daniel J. Schneider was born on the 14th January 1966 in Memphis, Tennessee USA. He is an American actor and writer, better known under the short name as Dan Schneider. Throughout the career he has created several TV shows that became a major success, such as “iCarly” (2007-2012), “Zoey 101” (2005-2008), “Victorious” (2010-2013) and others.
Texas in early 1836, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and his main force of at least 5000 men followed an inland route toward San Antonio. At the same time, Mexican General Jose Urrea with some 900 troops, left Matamoros and followed a coastal route into Texas.
Dionisio “Dennis” Chavez was born on April 8, 1888. Dennis worked driving a grocery wagon when he
What a strange place Europe is when men like this are reduced to waiting patiently in the anteroom of a young American of no importance
Victor Chang was one of the greatest heart surgeons of all time and saved many lives with his many great surgical skills.
First Canadian astronaut into space was Marc Garneau during 1984 with about 10 experiments in hand
Dr. Sally Kristen Ride was born in Encino, California on May 26th, 1951. Growing up, Sally was considered a tomboy. She spent most of her time playing football and baseball with the neighborhood boys. As Sally grew older, she found a love for tennis and science fiction novels. In high school, she studied chemistry, physics, trigonometry, and calculus. Sally started her first year of college at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and then transferred to Stanford University in California. At Stanford, Sally’s main studies were english and physics. After graduation Sally entered Stanford’s Master’s program specializing in astrophysics. It was during this that Sally heard that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) were looking for young scientists to become mission specialists. She noticed that NASA was encouraging women to apply. Sally applied and seemed to fit all of the requirements. She was asked to report to ...
Creighton University. Located in Omaha, Nebraska it is a private, coeducational, Jesuit Roman Catholic university. Sitting on a 132-acre campus, the university enrolls about 9,000 undergraduate students a year. It was founded through a gift from Mary Lucretia Creighton, who provided the funding to establish Creighton University in memory of her husband, Edward Creighton, a prominent Omaha Businessman.
Even in the late 19th century, few people believed such a feat was possible, and yet, a mere half a century later, the first man was launched into space (Irvine 5). How did the human race go from just dreaming about space to actually launching human beings into space in such a short time? Surprisingly, the United States’ space program started with the Cold War. The Cold War pushed the United States and the Soviet Union into a space race in which both nations rapidly developed space programs and tried to best each other in space exploration (Cold War 1). The Kennedy Space Center was built in Florida as a control center which handled many of the shuttle launches into space (NASA 1).
Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Butcher of Rostov, was convicted of 52 murders in 1992. Chikatilo’s killing spree lasted 12 years. Andrei repeated the pattern of raping, strangling, mutilating, and cannibalizing children and prostitutes. Andrei would confess in 1990, admitting to the sexual motivation behind the murders. Andrei was impotent and was unable to maintain a healthy relationship because of it. Andrei’s childhood was plagued by famine and war. His brother reportedly being kidnapped and cannibalized by neighbors during a mass famine. His father was imprisoned during World War II and his mother was raped during Nazi occupation of Ukraine. Andrei became a schoolteacher and after many years would resign due to the numerous accounts of molestation.