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McDonald’s Deposits $40 billion for Their New Location on the Moon

Grace Wood, Sports Editor

December 3, 2018

McDonald’s, the beloved American fast food restaurant chain, has a total of 36,899 restaurants in 120 different countries, and the company is not done yet expanding their locations. In their new project, they are planning to build a McDonald’s on the moon. As if we have not destroyed our own planet e...

Tags: Fast Food, Features, McDonald’s, Moon, Satire, Space

An Infinite Cacophony of Light

Tinaye Gibbons, Staff Writer

April 15, 2016

Stars are not meant to be heard. Endlessly floating, Surrounded by dust and emptiness With oblivion awaiting them. Stars speak their own language. Elegantly phrasing, Beckoned by thoughts and avidness With billions listening in. Stars see pinpricks of flashes. Swiftly decaying, Observed by regard a...

Tags: Death, Sounds, Space, Stars

Celestial

Megan Hoffman, Staff Writer

November 2, 2015

She dances through the galaxy, Cloaked in luminosity, Her dark hair mocking the swirling of stars, She wanders the moons, A shimmering star in the distance. The freckles along her cheekbones Mimic the sprinklingof planets Throughout the universe. She swims through the...

Tags: Goddess, Poetry, Space, Void

NASA Astronaut to Make History

Maddy James, Staff Writer

April 24, 2015

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly departed in the morning of March 27th on a Russian rocket from Kazakhstan with the intent to set the world record for longest time spent on a space station at a single time – 342 days. He is accompanied by Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka, with Kornienko staying for one...

Tags: International, News, Record, Space, Travel

The Waving Test

Amanda Lewsader, Staff Writer

March 26, 2015

“Don’t forget your lunch! It’s on table!” yelled my mom. Does she not know exactly how many tables there are in here? We practically live in a futuristic manufacturing factory that constructs high-tech everything and will grab, stab, or clean anything. Both my parents are engineers so they...

Tags: Be Original, Future, Short Story, Space

Catching the Comet

Bim Peacock, Photo Editor

December 4, 2014

Space exploration hit a historical landmark Wednesday, November 12 when a man-made probe landed on a travelling comet, 310 million miles from Earth. The touchdown occurred at 4:03 a.m. GMT, when the Philae lander made gentle contact with the surface of the comet. The European Space Agency (ESA) l...

Tags: International, News, Space, Space Travel