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    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 she challenged gender bias‚ challenged racial bias‚ and she challenged the space program. Mary Jackson was

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    with Dava Newman who is NASA’s innovative deputy administrator. In order to this article‚ the ultimate goal of NASA sends four astronauts to Mars by Orion: the manned spaceship representing the nation’s ambition. This plan is slated in following order. First of all‚ scientists set to send a robotic spacecraft to assemble surface material samples from an asteroid near the Earth. Next‚ NASA makes plan to launch Space Launch System and Orion together certain years. Besides‚ in space‚ they want to achieve

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    members. This is her first space flight. Mission Specialist K. Megan McArthur earned her B.S. in aerospace engineering at UCLA in 1993. She went on to obtain a Ph.D. from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. In 2000‚ she joined NASA‚ where she worked in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory and the Space Station and Space Shuttle Mission Control centers. In 2004‚ she served as the crew support astronaut‚ stationed at the Johnson Space Station in Houston‚ for the Expedition

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    spacecraft to land on the moon. Over 600 million families gathered around their televisions to watch this event take place. There is undeniable physical evidence that the moon landing of 1969 occurred; although many still feel like it was a hoax created by NASA. Some feel as if this was a “Race to Space” competition between countries‚ and the United States could not take that loss. While others feel as if it was cover up for the misuse of government funding. There were photos‚ unique moon rocks brought back

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    has two children. As a pioneer of spacecraft technology‚ she patented an optical system to detect defects in a repeating pattern. At the NASA Ames Research Center‚ she led a research group working primarily on optical systems for automated space exploration. As a doctoral student at Stanford‚ and later as a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories and NASA Ames Research Center‚ Ochoa investigated optical system for performing information processing. Ochoa is a co-inventor on three patents for

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    that NASA could do it if they really wanted too. One of the lead mechanical engineers is quoted as saying‚ “Putting men on Mars is not unachievable. It is just really hard and expensive. So if the world were to find itself with enough resources and the motivation‚ we could do it. Although it might

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    short for RMS‚ marked the beginning of NASA and Canada’s space program relationship. The Shuttle’s Canadarm took to space for roughly 30 years of successful missions until the technology was finally outdated. Along with the Space Shuttle program after mission STS-135‚ this set the robotic arm for its 90th flight on July 2011. The arm’s legacy lives on‚ as though it is gone‚ it still today has given Canada a good reputation as well as it gaining bonds with NASA and ISS (international space station)

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    2. Summary of the Facts The case started with Mr. Lorenz a decorated mechanical engineer with 16 years experience in fracture mechanics and almost a doctorate in metallurgy joined Martin Marietta‚ a aerospace manufacturer and contractor for NASA‚ in 1972. Lorenz worked in Martin Marietta’s research and development department as a “principle investigator”. Lorenz was responsible for the organization and quality control of the projects assigned to him. In the fall of 1973‚ while working on the

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    Should the U.S. Government Increase Spending On The Space Program A group of children lie in the tall grass on a moonless night‚ staring in wonder up at the hundreds of diamond pinpoints glittering across the heavens. This peaceful scene could have taken place at any point in history‚ from the cave dwelling Neanderthal‚ to a family celebrating a warm summer evening together at a local park. The Heavens have always been a source of passionate fascination and wonderment for intelligent beings

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    tons of fuel‚ and a spider-shaped spaceship covered with gold and silver foil. The goal of Apollo 11 was stated very simply. Perform manned lunar landing and return mission safely. Simply stated‚ but almost impossible to achieve‚ it was the mission NASA had been preparing for almost a decade‚ and nobody was trying to pretend this was just another launch. It would take this rocket ship almost three days to reach the shores of their new world. For the crew on board‚ that ’s when the real mission would

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