October Sky is an anagram of Rocket Boys - try it!

October Sky is a movie about a coal miner's son who was inspired by the launch of Sputnik 1. A poor boy from no-where follows his dreams and eventually becomes a NASA engineer. October Sky is about the story of the Rocket Boys who began research about engineering and rockets somewhere in rural West Virginia. The film makers entitled the movie October Sky instead of Rocket Boys because when sputnik was first seen it was described as crossing the 'october sky.' The characters and the plot of the story have a parallel to the USSR's and the United States space race and the battle they had with each other to try to best the other country.

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Major Problems Third Edition

In the book Major Problems in the chapter about the Cold War and the Nuclear Age, there are two pictures on page 304 that symbolize how important the space race and technological advances were.

They are titled "Images of Nuclear Destruction: Atomic Cake vs. Godzilla, 1946 and 1954"

The first is the atomic cake, which was in celebration of the Bikini Island Bomb tests in 1946. It was one of a few tests the US did with bombs and other technological advances in attempts to keep up with the Soviet Union.

The second picture is of Godzilla, which was a character that produced mass destruction in movies, which was a symbol of the destruction of big bombs like atomic or hydrogen bombs.
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