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    This article contains orbital elements but does not include an epoch‚ or date when those elements‚ which typically vary over time‚ were correct. Please help by adding the epoch for the current data‚ or changing the orbital elements to ones with a known epoch. Gemini VIII Gemini VIII docks with its Agena Target Vehicle Mission type Docking test Operator NASA COSPAR ID 1966-020A SATCAT № 2105 Mission duration 10 hours‚ 41 minutes‚ 26 seconds Distance travelled 293‚206 kilometers (158‚319

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    Orbiting satellites have shown that its surface contains hidden reserves of water. If man were sent back to the Moon‚ they could study this water and learn more about how the moon was created (Moskowitz). Each of the six brief visits to the Moon‚ all the Apollo missions landed near the equator (Shepard 11). With other discoveries from satellites‚ scientists have found new places to explore‚ such as Polar Regions. Since the Moon has an absence of a dynamic surface or active volcanism‚ it enables the Moon

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    The Apollo Missions were launched by NASA between 1961 and 1975. The missions collected much scientific data that helped us understand more about space and especially the moon. In many of the manned and unmanned missions collected many rock samples. In this certain study they found that the moon had many magma rocks on the moon. This fact surprised many scientists because space is very cold (as we all know) and magma rocks are formed from extreme heat or pressure. The magma rocks were only found

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    also active in the Apollo program and was killed along with his crew in a cabin fire during a spacecraft test on the launch pad on January 27‚ 1967. Wally Schirra stayed with the Gemini and Apollo programs‚ commanding Gemini 6A and performing the world’s first space rendezvous in December 1965. “He resigned from NASA and joined CBS News in 1969 as a co-anchor for all of the Apollo Moon landing missions‚ 11 through 17” (NASA). Gordon Cooper also stayed as well with Gemini and Apollo‚ commanding the eighth-day

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    launched into orbits around the Earth‚ to give people a chance to test equipment and to study the effects of space travel on the human body. Then‚ building on these successes‚ the United States developed the Apollo program. Its goal was to fly astronauts around the Moon and land them there. The first Apollo spacecraft

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    Case #7-The Apollo Group(Report) I. Analysis-Issues: a. The young people drop out the programs because the doubt in the education quality. b. The Apollo group education method is contrasted to the conventional mechanism of education being summited to criticism by other universities. c. The young students are more interested in enrolled into traditional education. d. Companies give financial help to the adult working students to pay their

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    John Landis English 1010 Greg Souza 10/22/2012 Many films often carry only one stylistic element‚ either focusing on a character’s growth‚ which is commonly portrayed in classical Hollywood cinema‚ focusing on the complexity of a character and the effects of setting‚ which is commonly portrayed in Art cinema‚ or focusing on the realistic daily struggles of a person‚ which is commonly portrayed in Neorealist cinema. Rocky I however combines these three traditions in order to make an engaging‚

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    Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon‚ Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin‚ on July 20‚ 1969‚ at 20:18 UTC. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface 6 hours later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC. Armstrong spent about two and a half hours outside the spacecraft‚ Aldrin slightly less; and together they collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material for return to Earth. A third member of the mission‚ Michael Collins‚ piloted the command spacecraft alone

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    Journey’s End is a 1928 drama‚ the seventh of English playwright R. C. Sherriff. It was first performed at the Apollo Theatre in London by the Incorporated Stage Society on 9 December 1928‚ starring a young Laurence Olivier‚ and soon moved to other West End theatres for a two-year run. The piece quickly became internationally popular‚ with numerous productions and tours in English and other languages. A 1930 film version was followed by other adaptations‚ and the play influenced other playwrights

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    John f. Kennedy challenged NASA to land a man on the moon. To make it to the moon it required many advances in technology. There were many Apollo missions before the actual moon landing. Apollo 8 and 10 flew all the way to the moon‚ around it‚ and back to earth. Finally mission Apollo 11 was ready to launch the Saturn 5 space shuttle. On July 16 1969‚ Apollo 11 launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. They traveled to the moon and arrived in lunar orbit on July 19. On board the Saturn 5 was

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