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Carlos Corraliza

Space: The Moon, A Closer Look

From the beginning of spaceflight, the Moon was a prime target, but this chapter in space exploration is too long to be covered here in any detail. The first spacecraft to reach the Moon were Luna 1, 2 and 3 of the Soviet Union, in 1959. Of these, Luna 3 rounded the Moon, took photographs of the far side which is not seen from Earth, and later scanned and transmitted those images (on the right); unfortunately, their quality was poor. In the decade that followed, 19 other Soviet missions were aimed at the Moon. In 1970 a Soviet spacecraft landed and returned a rock sample, and later that year a remotely controlled "Lunokhod" vehicle was landed, exploring its surroundings for nearly a year.

Other sample returns and Lunokhods followed, the series ending in 1976. However, failures marked tests of a large rocket developed for human Moon flights, ending any plans of manned lunar exploration by the Soviet Union. Early attempts by the US to send unmanned spacecraft to the Moon (1958-64) either failed or returned scanty data. In July 1964, however, Ranger 7 returned clear TV pictures of its impact on the Moon, as did Rangers 8 and 9. Of the 7 "soft landers" in the "Surveyor" series (1966-8), 5 performed well and sent back data and pictures. In November 1969, after Apollo 12 landed 500 feet (160 meters) from the "Surveyor 3" lander, astronauts retrieved its camera and brought if back to Earth. In addition to the Surveyor project, 5 lunar orbiters photographed the Moon and helped produce accurate maps of its surface. On May 25, 1961, about one month after Russia's Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the globe, US president John F. Kennedy proposed to the US Congress "that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth."

The Apollo missions followed, with Apollo 8 rounding the Moon in 1968 and Apollo 11 finally landing there, on July 20, 1969. Five other lunar landings followed, the last of them in December 1972. Only Apollo 13 failed to land, its crew members narrowly escaping with their lives after an explosion aboard their craft on the way to the Moon.

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In this part I have determined to my experience in the cinema. I went the second day to watch Shark Tale. It is a very good film and it is of animated drawings. It is a film that in Spain cannot still be watched, because I think they are translating it. The film tells the history of a fish, Oscar and a shark, Lenny. Oscar likes being famous and Lenny is a different shark: he doesn’t like fish. He likes vegetables. In addition Oscar is in love with Lola, a famous fish. But Lola doesn’t mind Oscar; so he tells everyone a great lie: he had defeated a shark (Lenny). After that, Oscar becomes a hero and now Lola loves him. He is very happy, but someone realises what is happening and people don’t like Oscar. At the end he rescues Lenny’s father(he was very angry with his son). And that is all I can tell you because if you go to watch this film, you should go, it would not funny that you knew what was happening.

I went to the mall, the cinema was there, and the cinema is enormous and out of one there is a lot of shops. You could buy whatever you would want. It is really big.And in this way that is over. I only want to thank all Peabody people what they have done for us, the spanish students. I am looking forward for them to come to Spain. I, and I suppose all spanish students, will try that they will enjoy as I have enjoyed in Peabody. It has been the best three weeks that we could dream. Thank you to all people who has worked for us to be able to come to USA(families, spanish and american teachers, etc...).