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    Cold War Space Policy

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    The United States has had a vastly changing national space policy during the cold war. The early cold war presidents such as Eisenhower‚ Kennedy‚ Johnson and Nixon had a very active and well-funded space policy compared to later cold war presidents. What caused each president to have a different policy and what shaped their views on space policy during the height of the cold war? What were the goals and outcomes of their policies? In the summer of 1958‚ through the singing of the National Aeronautics

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    Before baseline 11-10 launches‚ the distance rocket traveled 6.73m and weighed 1.12 grams and the seconds rocket went .92 seconds and weighed .95 grams. By adding some cardstock for fins and taking off my clay and replacing it with tape it went quite a bit further and it went quite a bit faster‚ the weight was .93 grams. With the weight taken off‚ the rocket went 1.796 m farther. For the baseline launches‚ the distance average was 7.465m and .91 seconds and for the height the average was 2

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    UFO or NASA weather balloon? There is a wealth of UFO sightings around the world. There is also always someone around to see it. These videos are full of shaky footage and interesting commentary. It could be a UFO? And the video is put to the test through peer evaluation‚ usually on YouTube. Rational folk always have an answer. A drone. Trump flying around with bat wings. Or a more simpler explanation‚ a NASA weather balloon. It would be difficult to dismiss the chance that a real UFO has been caught

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    Apollo 13

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    In the movie Apollo 13 three astronauts go up to space in the space craft odyssey and encounter many problems. The astronauts‚ Jim Lovell‚ Jack Swigert and Fred Haise were on a rushed mission to go to the moon when Jack went to go stir the oxygen tanks and one of them exploded. The explosion led to a whole host of problems. The astronauts had to abort the mission and focus on a safe return home. A monomyth plotline is when a person leaves a place‚ encounters obstacles and comes back a different

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    Students in the 21st Century Everything keeps on changing as the years pass on by. The behaviors and communication styles from the 21st century students differs from those in the decades ago. Although‚ both times are different‚ there are some similarities. An experiment will be conducted to show how the 21st century children communicate‚ socialize‚ and how they present themselves as far as their clothing. Everyone looked happy and excited to see what they would learn in the exhibit. They were

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    In the International Space Station‚ NASA experiments and shows how more explorations into space may make it easier to maneuver through a deep space and be able to locate the missions position in this deep space. This is done in an ethereal kind of “Global Positioning System or GPS” if you can have a GPS without the global. This form of tracking is using signals from dead stars in deep space that are always constant. The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer or NICER took a day and a half to

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    Apollo 11 Research Paper

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    There are many missions set up to explore our solar system and the rest of the universe. Apollo 11 is a great example of exploration. Its primary objective was set by President John F Kennedy when he said‚ “we shall send to the moon‚ 240‚000 miles away from the control station in Houston‚ a giant rocket... carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion‚ guidance‚ control‚ communications‚ food and survival‚ on an untried mission‚ to an unknown celestial body‚ and then return it safely to earth”

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    Mary Jackson’s impact on America Mary Jackson once said ¨ Coming here from the south will be a culture shock. It is important to reach out and help them to adjust.” Mary Jackson did everything she said in this quote about it being a culture shock because she was the first black women to achieve many things while working with the NACA which is now called NASA. Mary Jackson did not just achieve what she set out to do she went beyond. Mary Jackson was an important figure in American History because

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    Who would ever imagine that the begging of aerospace and the landing on the moon was going to be forty-three years before that the Apollo landed on the moon. What is even more surprising that this was going too occurred in a simple farm. Robert Goddard was a pioneer in Aerospace who was often ridiculed by many editorial and most American scientists. Most off them did not believe on his theories and nobody never took the initiative to do a bigger research in rockets with liquid-propellants. Robert

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    As far back as the 1930s‚ two leading manufacturers of military and civilian aircraft sought to write their own chapters in the annals of aviation history. The Northrop Corporation‚ founded by Jack Northrop in Hawthorne‚ California and the Grumman Corporation‚ founded by Leroy Grumman on Long Island‚ New York‚ have made extensive contributions to the aeronautical industry. During World War II‚ both companies ranked amongst the top one hundred in the United States in the value of wartime production

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