incredible moment in history has been certainly on the internet, which has then been followed by many conspiracy theories, the Apollo moon landings are doubtlessly one of those moments. On July 21, 1969, two astronauts set foot on the lunar surface, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Since then, NASA has been accused of staging the landing at a soundstage in Hollywood despite all of the compelling evidence to the contrary. The iconic photograph of Buzz Aldrin going down the ladder of the lunar module Eagle
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given by Louie Armstrong, his most acclaimed student. In fact, Armstrong's first cornet was entrusted to him by Oliver himself.
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At exactly 7:50 am on the chilling day of December 21, 1968; the first successful spacecraft of Apollo 8 was launched in the depths of the unknown. The first manmade mission that successfully managed to orbit the the small astronomical body that already orbits us. Within the Apollo 8 space mission included the three crewmen of Frank Borman, William A. Anders, and James A. Lovell. These three brave men were taking the bigger step to complete a task that to everyone else was nearly impossible. These
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Lance Armstrong is not just a party animal and father with incredible cycling ability. As you read in part one of this article there's more fun facts to know about him. Now you can learn the remaining facts in part two! Number Eight: His Friend Testified Against Him Former friend of Lance and cyclist Frankie Andreu testified against Armstrong out of retaliation. Apparently Lance called Frankie's wife fat, so Andreu couple testified against him in 1996, telling doctors he doped with growth hormone
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Squidoo – Squidoo has an interesting blog post on why this author believes that the 1969 moon walk was a hoax. With many reasons to back up this argument, this writer uses many scientific and image-proven facts to get this point across. The article is broken down into the following categories, and is able to give evidence for each topic: 1960’s Technology, Time Frame, Photographic evidence analysis, Astronauts on wires, footage we weren’t meant to see, and so on. If you like reading articles that
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Dr. Will Project 1 Final Lance Armstrong is a world famous cyclist that has won many races including seven of the famous Tour de France (one of the worlds’ famous cycling races). He has been through many obstacles in his life including having to go through the process of overcoming testicular cancer that had spread to a lot of different parts of his body. He is one of the many lucky people in the world that was able to survive testicular cancer. Armstrong has been a true inspiration to many
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Louis Armstrong American Jazz Icon Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) one of the renown fathers of American jazz music. One cannot think of American jazz and not think of the huge smile and the puffy cheeks of the one affectionately called “Satchmo”. Few can hear the songs “Hello Dolly!” (Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart – 20th Century fox 1964) and “What a Wonderful World” (Geroge Weiss & Bob Theile 1968) not hear the deep raspy voice of this beloved icon. With his incredible energy and joy for life
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Settlers on Mars Mars the red planet. A distant planet not so far from Earth was the next great step in mankind’s evolution. As the great Neil Armstrong once said “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. Being the first settlers on mars for a three year course, my life was now a roller coaster ride. I had the fear of the cart derailing at any moment before the end of the track surging within me. How will our first days go? What problems will we face in the months to come? Will
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Is the Hoax a Bunch of Jokes? Since the amazing Apollo 11 landing on the moon, no one questioned whether it might have been a hoax, until February 15th 2001 when Fox released a documentary called “Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?”. Here, “hoax believers” argue that NASA faked the landing to prove that U.S. technology was greater than that of the Soviets, by not only meeting the standards of the Russians in space travel, but surpassing it, marking a bit of territory on another planet
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| Greg Van Lieu HIST101-1502B-02 Professor Gleason May 25, 2015 THE SPACE RACE During the cold war a competition between the United States and Russia started as each country competed in seeing who would make it to space first. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was formed, it replaces the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) in October 1, 1958. On September 12, 1962 the race was defined by President John F Kennedy’s speech at Rice University and thus
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