Earthrise
a. Identify the material including a copy of the lyrics, dust cover, poem etc.
b. Identify the source of the material
Earthrise William Anders 1968
This photograph was taken during the Apollo 8 mission in December 1968, seven months before the first lunar landing.
c. Summarise the material
This image is Earthrise, one of the most famous photographs of all time. William Anders, an Apollo astronaut, took it in 1968.This photo was taken during the Apollo 8 mission and was the first photo of the entire earth from space. It is said to have launched the environmental movement by making people realize how beautiful and precious our planet is. The Apollo 8 mission was the first mission to put men in orbit of the moon entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1968 That evening, the astronauts-Commander Frank Bormann, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders took the first ever image of the world in its entirety. The Apollo moon missions resulted in a group of thousands of images, both of scientific and documentary value. But after 30 years most of them are just another image from history. However there is one image that is still relevant today an image so
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"We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth,” Three days after the launch, during a Christmas eve broadcast Lovell noted the difference between the lunar surface and the view of the distant world, "The vast loneliness up here of the moon is awe-inspiring," he said, "It makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth. The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space." these quotes just show the importance of the picture. It took a picture from space for humans to really appreciate life on earth and the very miracle of its
...ause it was the mission that NASA was able to put the first man up onto the moon. Neil Armstrong was the pilot of the Apollo 11 flight. There was a special shuttle that was attached to the spaceship; it was called the Eagle. The Eagle was designed to transport some crew members down to the moon. Armstrong was responsible for driving and landing the shuttle safely down to the moon. While on his way down to the moon, Armstrong realized that he was starting to run out of fuel. Thankfully, Armstrong did have enough to land on the moon and make it back up to the spaceship. When the Eagle was leaving the spaceship for the first time up in space, it wasn't completely depressurized so there was something like a gas bubble come from the shuttle as it was on its way to the moon. The gas bubble moved the shuttle off course and the Eagle actually landed four miles off course.
As a result of the successful mission that landed the first men on the moon, called the Apollo 11 mission, many people were inspired to provide commentary on this landing. Although these texts describe unique individual purposes about this landing, they all effectively support their purposes through the use of several rhetorical devices.
The following four texts apart of the Culminating Activity were all related to the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, which had first put a man on the moon. The first article was from the Times of London, and served to describe the events of the moon landing from the astronaut's point of view. The article used anecdotal evidence to describe Aldrin and Armstrong's experience in order to inform the audience of what had occurred, as well as the reactions in several different countries.. The speaker is a from a reputable news source, The Times, and is informing the European audience - as this event was apart of America’s space program, NASA - of the landing as a great success. Although
On July 16, 1969 the space ship Apollo 11 left from Kennedy Space Center en route to the moon. The crew consisted of Neil A. Armstrong, the commander; Edwin E. Aldrin, the jr. lunar module pilot; and Michael Collins, the commander module pilot...
Neil Alden Armstrong was an astronaut and the first man ever to walk on the Moon.
It changed the way people viewed the Earth. Neil Armstrong said, “It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn 't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.” And while only astronauts could truly observe Earth as it looked 230,000 miles away, Apollo 11’s television broadcast gave people their own view so that “anyone following the mission could share, in some measure, that unprecedented leap in perspective.” (Chaikin 54) This “unprecedented leap in perspective” gave people on Earth a sense of community that surpassed societal issues and cultural bias as people recognized how alone humans are in the vast expanse of the universe.
The speaker of the special 5am edition “Man Takes the First Steps on the Moon,” article is the Times of London. The Times of London describes the Apollo 11 mission that took place in 1969 by Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin. The purpose of the article of the Times of London is to analyze and summarize the precautionary steps and importance of the 1969 Apollo 11 space mission. The Times conveys a benevolent tone in order to keep the interests of the audience high, which is all of humanity all over the world, and also to show how significant and astonishing the mission was. The mission marked a consign to oblivion for all of humanity. The Times automatically establishes ethos since they are the newspaper for London. The Times also establishes
Little did anyone know or expect this would be the most rewarding mission since 1961. Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins left from the Kennedy Space Center on the east coast of Florida on July 16,1969. Michael Collins was the command module pilot, Neil Armstrong was the mission commander, and Buzz Aldrin was the lunar module pilot. The Apollo 11 crew traveled 240,000 miles in just 72 hours, Apollo 11 entered into a lunar orbit on July 19,1696. Collins detached for the lunar module The mission was already ahead of schedule with Americans waiting to see what was going to happen next for their country. At 10:39 p.m., Armstrong, being televised, opened the hatch of the lunar module, and three minutes later Armstrong made history by putting his left foot of the moon’s powdery surface. When Armstrong stepped down from the last step from the spacecraft, all of America jumped for excitement and joy. Aldrin soon joined Armstrong 19 minutes later, and together they took photographs, then planted the United States flag. President Nixon was so very blessed and honored that he was able to witness America make history on July 24, 1969 along with all of the other Americans. Returning back to Earth
I can talk a lot about the scale of the film, "A Trip to the Moon;" it's no wonder many of the descriptions of the film start with the words "one of the first." There are a variety of decorations and costumes, a lot of special effects, and a complete story line. We, who saw on the screen the most incredible things, can hardly imagine what impression this film created among its contemporaries. However, even now it is difficult not to experience genuine joy and delight while watching this amazing film.
Anyone who was old enough to remember the time can probably remember exactly where he or she was and what he or she was doing when he first walked on the moon. Along with the inscription on the plaque placed at the point of the landing ("we came in peace for all mankind"), Armstrong's words are often enough to bring tears to the eyes of nearly every American and indeed much of the world. As great an accomplishment as man's landing on the moon is, however, there are other momentous events that often seem forgotten in the glare of celebrity afforded to the space program's manned missions. How many people can remember where they were when the first man-made object left the bounds of our solar system? How many people can even remember what that object was?
In 1959, Luna 2, a Soviet space probe, became the first probe to hit the moon. In 1961, Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first person to orbit Earth. He achieved this in a capsule-like spacecraft called the Vostok 1. The USA’s effort to send a human into space was called Project Mercury. The NASA scientists had created a different design of spacecraft for the trip, one with a smaller, more cone-shaped capsule that was lighter than the Vostok 1. On May 5th, 1961, Alan Shepard went into space, earning the title of first American in space. He, unlike Yuri Gagarin, did not orbit Earth. The first American to orbit the earth was John Glenn, who did this in February 1962. President Kennedy stated later that May that the US would land a man on the moon before the end of the...
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~"The 1969 Moon Landing: First Humans to Walk on Another World." Science and Its Times. Ed. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer. Vol. 7. Detroit: Gale, 2001. U.S. History in Context. Web. 13 Feb. 2014.
In 1958 a group known as The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was founded. The first probe to escape Earth's gravity was the Soviet LUNA 1, launched on Jan. 2, 1959. It passed the Moon and continued into interplanetary space. The U.S. probe Pioneer 4, launched two months later, followed the same path. Later Soviet probes either hit the Moon or passed it and took photographs of the hidden far side, relaying them back to Earth.