1999 Sells Zip2 to Compaq for $307 million. 2000 Forms Pay Pal by merging his new online-payments startup‚ X.com‚ with Max Levchin and Peter Thiel’s Confinity. 2001 Establishes the Musk Foundation to provide grants for renewable energy‚ space‚ and medical research as well as science and engineering education. 2002 PayPal goes public; its stock rises more than 54 percent on the first day of trading. Eight months later‚ eBay acquires PayPal for $1.5 billion. Musk founds SpaceX. 2004
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obtaining four years of qualifying engineering experience‚ and passing a Principles and Practices exam. Both exams are eight hours long. * The Space Shuttle has flown its last mission and some would argue that the future of manned space exploration by the United States is uncertain. What do you think the United States’ policy towards manned space exploration should be? Some issues (you do not need to address them all) to consider are: Should the commercial sector take a leading role? What role
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impacted NASA in many remarkable way. While at NASA‚ Katherine calculated the trajectory for the first American in in space‚ and she coauthored/authored lots of reports. She did the calculations that helped the synch Project Apollo’s Lunar Lander. And she did this remarkably being the only black woman in an almost all-male and white work force. Her critical success started the Space Shuttle program‚ and lead her to becoming a memorable NASA member. (Britannica.com‚ web) Image result for katherine johnson
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by the U.S government? Remember the “Space Race” against Russia? What would have happened if we had shut down NASA before that? Getting a man to the moon was a Cold War victory! Shutting down funding for space exploration would be utterly devastating. Did you know that we can do research in space that we can’t do on earth? In space‚ we can understand more about gravity‚ and how machines work in different conditions‚ special medical research can be done in space‚ and there are many ways NASA improves
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Control or "Houston" had to come up with a flawless plan to get the U.S spacemen back to the Earth. How is free-fall associated in the re-entry of a spacecraft? Free-fall is arguably the most important aspect of space travel. The free-fall law is put into action during the re-entry of the space craft to Earth. When the spacecraft enters Earth’s gravity‚ it enters the Earth at an angle. Once they get close enough‚ they start feeling terminal velocity. After falling at 9/8 m/s^2‚ they reach such a fast
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Brett Mulligan 10-2-12 Space Command Year 4096: "I remember when I was just about your age all I ever wanted to do was go to space‚” Said the old man sitting in his rocking chair. "Well did you go to space grandpa‚” the little boy said who was just about to turn five years old. “Yes I did Timmy‚ I went to the deepest reaches of space explored places no one has ever even heard of‚ I even captained my very own ship for twenty-five years"‚ he leaned back in his chair to get more comfortable
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NASA was created with the intent to establish military culture‚ US dominance over USSR. Morton Thiokol‚ Inc.‚ an aerospace company‚ manufactured the solid propellant rocket motors manufactured the booster rockets SRB used to launch the Challenger Shuttle. Morton Thiokol called for a teleconference‚ fortnight before the launch had been scheduled to discuss the O ring problem. The Challenger launch was disaster due to various reasons: 1. The engineers at Morton-Thiokol knew that the O-rings did
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Characteristics of a high performance team are evident throughout the movie. Armageddon is an action adventure film in which a meteor the size of Texas is careening towards the earth. NASA scientists discover it after a meteor shower destroys the Space Shuttle Atlantis‚ killing the entire crew. They only have 18 days before the asteroid destroys the earth. NASA devises a plan to insert a nuclear bomb 800 feet inside the asteroid‚ when detonated‚ will split the asteroid into two pieces that will safely
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journey back home. But his trip was legendary and changed the worldview of his time. The deaths of these celebrated individuals are examples of how catastrophe often accompanies the advancement of humanity. On the January 28‚ 1986‚ the Challenger Space Shuttle exploded less than two minutes into flight‚ leading to the death of seven crew members. Ronald Reagan is clearly aware of the pattern of loss and exploration when he addresses the tragedy. The purpose of Reagan’s address is to express condolences
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the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident. Washington‚ DC: US Government Printing Office • Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster • Maier‚ M. (1992) "A major malfunction" The Story behind the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster. Binghamton: State University of New York at Binghamton [Video tape] • Boisjoly‚ R • Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident‚ vol. 3-4 (Washington‚ D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office‚ 1986). • Bell‚ Trudy and Karl Esch‚ "The Space Shuttle: A Case
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