The Space Race was important to U.S history because of the significance of the battle between democratic society and totalitarian communism‚ because it brought an end to the Cold War‚ and because it led into further joint ventures between the United States and the Soviet Union (now Russia)‚ including the first space station. (http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal114/gal114.htm)) This 18 year long race between the two nations for international superiority via space and the transportation needed
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The Hubble Space Telescope was launched after a two-year delay on April 24th‚ 1990 from the space shuttle Discovery. This telescope has a length of 13.2 meters and a weight at launch that was 11‚110 kg. It is a space-based optical reflective telescope that observes distant and faint objects. (NASA) One of the most important discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope has to be that it has revealed the age of the universe to be 13 to 14 billion years old‚ this was a huge improvement from the earth based
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Space Shuttle Challenger disaster INTRODUCTION: The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28‚ 1986‚ when Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight‚ leading to the deaths of its seven crew members. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean‚ off the coast of central Florida‚ United States‚ at 11:39 a.m. EST (16:39 UTC). Disintegration of the entire vehicle began after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster (SRB) failed at liftoff. The
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Inc. (QDI) teamed with WCSAR (Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics)‚ a NASA center for the commercial development of space‚ developed High Emissivity Aluminiferous Light-emitting Substrate technology to provide high-intensity‚ solid-state LED lighting systems for NASA Space Shuttle plant growth experiments. Their goal was to be able to grow plants in space so humans could have longer stays in space shuttles or the International Space Station (ISS). They discovered that specific LED
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HL 3D Geo Test #1eCalculators PermittedName________________________ Time: 70 minutes100 points 1) Solve the system of simultaneous linear equations . 2)Find the equation of the line that is perpendicular to the line with equation and that passes through the point with coordinates (2‚ 1). What is the perpendicular distance from the origin to the line with equation ? 3) Solve the inequality 2 4)Consider the vectors a = i − j + k‚ b = i + 2 j + 4k and c = 2i − 5 j − k. (a)Given that
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Time‚ space and context as seen by Edward T. Hall Edward Twitchell Hall anthropologist was born in Missouri in 1914. Hall was a cross-cultural researcher; he observed the difficulties created by failures of intercultural communication. Among his creations we can mention The Silent Language (1959)‚ The Hidden Dimensions (1969)‚ Beyond Culture (1976) and Understanding Cultural Differences – Germans‚ French and Americans (1993). He had a very important role in the foundation of the scholarly field
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International Space Station The International Space Station‚ a worldwide project‚ is the next goal in a quickly growing space frontier. The station will be the first and next step towards researching the vast unknown world of outer space. What will be learned by this station? NASA has only the highest hopes that with the newest advancements in technology up in space‚ the fundamental physical‚ chemical‚ and biological processes can be examined with the absence of gravity‚ because of the space station
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SPACE EXPLORATION & TECHNOLOGY Traveling through space and exploring the unknown has been an unquenched curiosity of mankind’s since the beginning of time. Students of all ages‚ in schools throughout the world‚ are becoming more involved in researching space. They are following the current progress of space exploration‚ and discovering the learning possibilities that come from traveling through the last frontier. "Space Exploration" is an interdisciplinary unit combining multiple disciplines
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Columbia Accident Case Study This is an edited version of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board report released in August‚ 2003. It provides a comprehensive and often sobering example of management lapses that have severe consequences. The original report was over 280 pages. This edited version eliminates the much of the technical discussion and focuses instead on the organizational factors that lead to the accident. You may obtain the entire report from http://www.caib.us/news/report/default
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The paper looks at how Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Andre Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972) make art cinema out of the popular genre of science fiction. Further‚ it focuses on the specific ways the two directors deploy to construct extraterrestrial space to explore key concerns of science fiction‚ including the relation of humans to technology‚ human to the alien or non-human‚ as well as the relationship of the present to the future. The specific constructions of those films shape
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