President Ronald Reagan in his mournful, yet inspiring speech, “Explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger Address to the Nation”, addresses the horrific tragedy of the Challenger Seven, while also motivating the future generations of America to take part in the ever growing space program. Reagan adopts a solemn tone in order to mourn the loss of the astronauts with his American viewers. Through the use of various rhetorical strategies, Reagan not only provides his condolences for the astronaut’s
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Emalee Foote Professor Francis Eng 105 09 February 16 Ronald Reagan and the Shuttle Challenger Crash On January 28, 1986, Ronald Reagan delivered a speech on the topic of the shuttle Challenger crash from the oval office in Washington D.C. In his speech, he discusses the events that took place and speaks to many about the tragedy. He addresses the children who watched it happen live, NASA workers, the families of the victims, and everyone else in the United States. He discusses what we will do next
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assignment I chose to learn more about the Apollo Missions. I have always been very interested in this subject. It blows my mind that someone was smart enough to figure out how to get man on the moon and bring them home safely. The whole point of the Apollo Missions were to safely land man on the moon and bring them home. There were many tests before they actually landed Apollo 11 on the moon. Apollo 7 and 9 were Earth orbiting missions to test the modules. Apollo 8 and 10 tested large amounts of components
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In 1969, a year of a historical event for those who were apart of it. The day of which the first humans landed on the moon, through mission Apollo 11. There are several texts and an image related to the Apollo 11 mission, that demonstrate how it relates to the rhetoric concepts of ethos, pathos and logos. As well as in how it is effectively used to prove throughout these pieces of texts the subject and writing to the rhetoric concepts mentioned. Neil Armstrong, the man to take the first walks on
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Apollo 13 Social student fair Right in the beginning of space programs to the Moon, Apollo 13 was the third American Apollo space program that had intended to land on the moon. Although it was the seventh manned mission. Real goal of that mission was to examine a region of the moon, a region that is difficult to get to. The astronauts survived the flight, but it was close. As in the bible says ( Psalm 8:3-4 ESV / When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which
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“The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero, “Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison in their 1959 paper ‘Searching for Interstellar Communications’ supports the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. This prediction was one of the first of its kind and it opened up nonbeliever’s eyes to real possibility of space exploration. Cocconi knew even back in 1959 that the expedition to space would be arduous but had the United States not tried
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All of the articles that I selected relate in that they are all ground breaking events that ultimately had a great impact on our history. They were the first of their time and in the majorify of situations, not in a positive way. To begin on a postive note, we begin with the first man to walk on the moon. Mr. Neal Armstrong was the first man to land on the moon on July 20, 1969. Millions of people were positioned in front of their televisions at home eagerly watching as Mr. Armsrong bounced along
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The reasons why Kennedy wanted to send Americans to the moon because the soviet union had a lot of satellites and 40 of them were by Americans and the soviet were far more sophisticated and supplied and far more knowledge.There nations own scientific manpower that is doubling every 12 years in a rate of growth. Kennedy wanted the first man in the United States to make it in the moon because in this text it refers that ¨Man in his quest for knowledge and progress,is determined and cannot be deterred¨
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missions that NASA sent out have achieved their goals but also some missions have failed. Apollo 11, Hubble Telescope, and Spirit and Opportunity were sent into outer space, had spinoffs, and also helped us gain information on the planets and the universe. Apollo 11 is the only Apollo mission that succeeded. Apollo 11 was launched on July 16, 1969. Apollo 11 was sent by Former President John F. Kennedy. He sent Apollo 11 because it was a “ space race” against the Soviet
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Three, two, one… The sky roared into a fiery red as the rocket shot into the sky, calming the surrounding atmosphere into a sudden silence. This was the launch of the Apollo 13 mission. Three astronauts, Lovell, Swigart, and Haise, were sent on this mission to explore a hilly section on the moon. So far, the mission was going as planned and very well, at least for now. No one knew of the catastrophe that was soon coming. When Swigart was instructed to “turn on the fans inside the oxygen tanks
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