occurred. The shuttle‚ Challenger‚ blew up in front of a live audience. The space launch was being broadcasted across the United States live from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This launch was one of the most publicized launches due to the first civilian going into space and also that the launch had been delayed six times before. The U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission detailed that the launch took place on January 28‚ 1986 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The skis about Kennedy Space Center were
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A massive meteor shower destroys the orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis and bombards a swath of land from America’s East Coast including New York City through Finland. NASA discovers that a rogue comet the size of Texas passed through the asteroid belt and pushed forward a large amount of space debris. The core of the comet‚ now considered an asteroid‚ will collide with Earth in 18 days‚ creating another extinction event. NASA scientists‚ led by Dan Truman‚ plan to trigger a nuclear detonation 800 ft
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Persuasive Essay-NASA Space Exploration Christopher Columbus theorised that the earth was flat. We later found out that the earth was actually spherical‚ this was due to significant advancement of astronomy. Such important discoveries‚ wouldn’t be possible without‚ NASA‚ space exploration‚ advances in technology‚ scientific findings and a more broadened knowledge of the universe. The illusive idea of travelling beyond our clouds has been around before the first moon landing took place. We know
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were learning as far as the astronauts and space shuttles. There were mixtures of communication styles‚ but verbal was primary. There were many how used a lot of slang like ‘OMG!’‚ ‘LOL’‚ and other types of slang. Many were also making gestures to each other to symbolize a certain message to bring across. The majority of the topics discussed were about what information they would gather up as far as astronauts and what it would be like to be in a space shuttle. Obviously‚ family complications would occur
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have become a reality‚ I am now part of the New York Space Station. I never finished reading the letter‚ as soon as the words ‘you have been accepted’ caught my eye i knew that I now stood the chance to go down in history. “Claire Menzies the first female astronaut”‚ I imagine that would be the headline once I become famous. It’s been four years of dedicated studying that got me to where I am now‚ about to step into the one and only New York Space Station. All I can say is that it was love at first
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The Search Through Time and Space “Beep‚ beep‚ beep‚ Mr. Gordy wake up!” Rang the alarm clock. The year was 2023‚ the date September 3rd‚ the time 9:03 A.M. All was silent as the incessant nagging of the alarm clock continued to repeat it’s usual speech until a hand with a force of a comet came crashing down to end the repetition abruptly. A man‚ 6’3”‚ emerged from the bed‚ face worn from what seemed like a minute of sleep after spending a night of searching for what no man could manage to find
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the ocean‚ or far in space? Have you ever wondered what kinds of creatures lurk in the Mariana Trench? Many of these questions can be answered if you support one simple thing: Deep Exploration! Deep Exploration would possibly allow us to find a new species‚ or even a species we thought was extinct! It’s a risky business‚ but think of all of the knowledge we would gain from it! Almost all of our technology is expensive and modern‚ showing how much we have learned from space exploration and deep
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initiative to do what was once viewed as the need to spread our species out into the stars before the inevitable death of our planet. NASA’s budget has seen cuts over the years and recently has had the need to call upon private companies to further their space programs so they can still
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Causes of Accident Challenger’s STS-51L mission was scheduled for Launch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral‚ Fla. “After several technical and weather-related delays‚ Challenger launched at 11:38 a.m. EST on Jan. 28‚ 1986” (Chow‚ 2011). The ship exploded 73 seconds after liftoff (Howell‚ 2012). The (mechanical) cause of the accident points to pressure seals (O-rings) but more importantly points to the serious problems that NASA had with its communication channels and safety information
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of research is required to design and launch a vehicle of this caliber. The US already successfully undertaken one program to reach the moon; this program is known to the world as the Apollo programs. In this program the US’s space agency the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was responsible for the design and deployment of arguably the most powerful rocket ever built‚ Saturn V. That was the 1960’s‚ here in the 2000’s the Apollo program is history and the Saturn V has been retired
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