To Fly By Neil Degrasse Tyson Summary

Noelei Anglemyer
Miss Wank
Advanced ELA 8
7 March 2023
Humanity’s Greatest Invention A lot of things that we use in life we take for granted, such as airplanes. Well, in To Fly by Neil deGrasse Tyson, this article talks about the history of human flight and those inventions such as the airplane or space shuttles, and the impact these had on humanity. The invention that had the biggest impact on humanity were airplanes. The airplane had the greatest impact on humans because airplanes allowed us to know things we didn’t know before. As said in the article To Fly, ‘’Credit the Apollo Astronauts who went to the moon with attaining speeds at which humans have ever flown, about seven miles per second at the end of the rocket burn that lifted

In To Fly, It says, ‘’For most of the history of broadcast television in America, when a station signed off for the night, it didn't show somebody walking erect and bidding farewell, instead it would play ‘’the Star Spangled Banner’’ and show things that fly, such as birds soaring by or Air Force jet whooshing by.’’ This tells you that people have idolized things that fly such as airplanes enough to put them into our televisions. This was a second reason that explains why airplanes had the most worthwhile impact on

From To Fly, it says, ‘’Credit the Apollo Astronauts who went to the moon with attaining speeds at which humans have ever flown, about seven miles per second at the end of the rocket burn that lifted their craft beyond low Earth orbit.’’ This explains that rocket ships helped us learn that humans can go much faster than we thought, but we wouldn’t have the rocket ships if we hadn’t figured out how to fly with airplanes first. Another quote from To Fly says, ‘’For most of the history of broadcast television in America, when a station signed off for the night, it didn't show somebody walking erect and bidding farewell, instead it would play ‘’the Star Spangled Banner’’ and show things that fly, such as birds soaring by or Air Force jet whooshing by.’’ This means that us as humans idolize things that fly, and since we created the airplane, people put them everywhere, including out televisions and games. However, some people might say that radios were a much better inventions that contributed to humanity. To Fly says, ‘’Present day life is dominated by science as never before. You pick up a telephone and within minutes you are talking with a friend in Paris…the radio carries your voice to parts of the Earth with the speed of light.’’ This quote explains that radio basically transformed technology and how we communicate across the world. However, in To Fly, the author says, ‘’Thirty-five years later, not only had airplanes