The Martian by Andy Weir is a newly published novel that has recently been adapted into a movie. I was introduced to this novel through Audible. It was one of my suggested reads and it sounded interesting. I’m really into science fiction and technology‚ which brought me to reading this book. The Martian takes place a majority of the time on Mars. The fourth planet from the sun doesn’t provide great hospitality as we see in this novel. Mark Watney‚ a botanist on a mission on Mars‚ is lost and left
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October 5‚ 1957; this is the day that went down in history as the day the Space Race between the United States and the USSR began. On this day the USSR successfully launched the Sputnik satellite into orbit around the planet. Close to a month later the USSR launched the Sputnik 2 which held the first living organism to orbit the planet; Laika the dog. The series of events that followed brought change to the Cold War and to the world that could not have been foreseen in terms of international relations
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The Martian by Andy Weir The book follows the stranded NASA astronaut Mark Watney on Mars‚ as he channels his inner Crusoe and tries to survive and get rescued. Weir uses logbook entries to convey Watney´s thoughts‚ which makes the book a bit more unique since the events of the book are told after they have happened. However Weir still makes sure there is enough suspense to go around for everyone. Humor Watney is all alone on Mars with only limited resources‚ no companions and no escape. To make
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The Space Race was the closets the United States has come to losing it superpower title to other nations. The Space race was a twelve-year competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to explore the Solar System. This race began on October 4‚ 1957 when the Soviet Union deployed an artificial satellite called‚ Sputnik to orbit in space. Sputnik created a sense of fear in the United States that the Soviet Union had “reached the heavens” with the use of technological advancements. The
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President Kennedy’s Inaugural Address America was at its tipping point when President Kennedy was in power in the early 1960s. Kennedy’s brilliant inaugural speech is one of America’s important speeches that has tremendously impacted the nation at the time. His speech gave Americans citizens high spirits and reassurance that their president could create their homeland great again. In his speech‚ John F. Kennedy attempted to affectedly construct a better America‚ as well as giving its citizens a
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Since the beginning of time‚ science has never failed to alter our beliefs. From finding out that our planet is round‚ to sending the first person to the moon‚ we continue to grow a better understanding about the world around us. Many organizations such as NASA have helped to shape our perception today. But‚ It was years before that scientists helped to build NASA’s views and fundamental understandings of anatomy‚ and astronomy. The Renaissance helped to change people’s views of the earth surrounding
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Robert H. Goddard: Robert H. Goddard is the creator the first liquid-fueled rocket that has changed the usage and abilities of modern day spacecrafts. Although‚ he wasn’t respected during his engineering process‚ Goddard still strived to follow his dream of one day taking a rocket to the moon. ("Robert Goddard"‚ 2008). Robert H. Goddard invented the first liquid-fueled rocket‚ improving upon the previous basic space crafts‚ despite the extremely negative thoughts society had on his ideas as he started
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John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States. He was president in the years of 1961 to 1963. John was the youngest president of the United States at the age of forty-four. His presidential term was cut short when he was assassinated at the age of forty-six. John was born on May 23‚ 1917‚ to a very power political family. While he was president he is mostly known for the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs invasion. The effect of John F. Kennedy’s death caused America to come together
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Jacob had went to mars on a rocket when jacob gets their in 2020 he starts hearing these weird noises and balloons start flying he tries leaving but when he turns on his rocket it suddenly breaks down on a bunch of mops and brooms.When he gets out of the rocket jacob starts seeing a unicorn fly by him and he starts to cry.Jacob finally s starts to suck it up and goes looking for food while jacob finds food he bumps into these two other people named Nathan and Zeze and they offer jacob some food and
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The Incident at Roswell There are many weird things that occur on planet earth that cannot be explained or are hard to explain. One of these occurrences is the incident at Roswell. When strange debris was found near Roswell‚ New Mexico‚ people started believing it was from an extraterrestrial space craft. There are many questions left unanswered and many theories of what really happened started developing. Theories that stated that the debris was just from a weather balloon‚ or was part of a project
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