From the first telescope to the first steps on the moon, NASA has so much to be proud of. It all started in early 1958, when NASA launched the first American craft to orbit moon. After they had their first accomplishment, they started to launch crafts that were aimed at the moon. In December 1958, NASA started working on a project that would send men to space known as Project Mercury. In the beginning of Project Mercury, NASA launched 13 spacecrafts into space. 6 failed due to trouble in the rockets
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| Leader / Event | Crossing the Delaware River | George Washington | Gettysburg Address | Abraham Lincoln: “Four score and seven years ago...” | Apollo 13 Space Mission | “Failure is not an option.” | First Person To Walk On Moon | Neil Armstrong: “One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.” | Kennedy Presidential Speech | John Kennedy: “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”
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Through the art music, bebop created a way for people to innovate beyond the norms and to look past that. This would help what was coming later in the jazz era. The third reason was individualism, up until this point there was soloist artists. Louis Armstrong attempted it, but the idea didn’t come through until Bebop came along. The vocabulary that was created was new to the Bebop movement. It is said that when Bebop came along it made the swing vocabulary outdated. Most of the words that were created
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Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, often called the grandfather of jazz, pioneered the artform and to this day is considered one of the most influential musicians of all time. When asked to describe jazz, he famously responded “If you have to ask, you’ll never know”. Many have criticised this reply for its vague nature and for not directly answering the question, but I believe this quote describes jazz and its purpose perfectly. What Armstrong was trying to say was that jazz is meant to be felt rather than
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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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basically Armstrong and Charlie and not being friends anymore with your best friends and having to fight and not talk to each other. Basically they say “were not best friends anymore”. In this historical fiction Armstrong and Charlie, Steven B. Frank captures how people can not be friends anymore for awhile and how they became friends again in a very interesting way. Armstrong and Charlie are two middle schoolers. The middle schoolers from Los Angeles gets very heated,crazy. Armstrong and Charlie
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faked it to prove we were the best. I know we didn't have the technology to probably fake it but i believe that we did. If you believe all that bologne then keep reading and i will show you that it was a big bowl of fake flakes. We believe that neil armstrong was the first man to walk
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an event took place, or that it sums up certain political and social values. One picture in particular whose truth has been frequently questioned is the iconic image of the first man on the moon. Ever since the day this image was taken of Neil Armstrong on July 20, 1969 people have been creating conspiracies and theories about the validity of the event. Some believe that NASA faked man actually being able to walk on the moon once they discovered they could not exit the spacecraft in safety, and
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Duke Ellington,a very prominent jazz composer and musician, performed in many nightclubs and was the leader of a 10 person ensemble called the Kentucky Club Orchestra, later known as the Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra in 1927. Louis Armstrong seen as a “founding father of jazz” performed over 300 concerts every year and was a great jazz musician and composer as well. He was born in a very impoverished area of New Orleans called “the battlefield”. He later joined King Oliver’s Creole
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Clark Expedition took place in the U.S during 1803, while man on the moon took place during the 1969-1972. Lewis and Clark went to go explore the west because Thomas Jefferson assigned them to do this after the Louisiana Purchase. The U.S sent Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin to win the space race against the U.S.S.R. The two adventures had a lot in common and many differences. The Lewis and Clark Expedition and Man on the Moon have many similarities. Both of the adventures took place in unknown territories
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