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    Space exploration has been increasing greatly in the last 50 years. It has allowed us to understand the greatness of the universe and the endless possibilities it offers us. Our planet‚ Earth‚ is inhabited by approximately 6 billion humans. This is well over our natural carrying capacity (the amount of resources there are to sustain our population) but with techniques such as farming‚ we have manipulated our resources to provide us with enough food‚ but alternate solutions are needed. The Cold War

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    OCKHART: A hot air inflatable burst into blazes over focal Texas on Saturday after evidently striking electrical cables and dove into a field‚ killing each of the 16 individuals on board in one of the deadliest such mishaps on record‚ police and observers said. The Federal Aviation Administration said the red hot accident happened at around 7:40 a.m. (1240 GMT) close Lockhart‚ a town around 30 miles (50 kThe Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office said 16 individuals were accepted to have been on board

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    This particular event would eventually be called the Space Race. This race would start in 1957 and conclude in 1969 when Apollo 11 successfully landed on the moon. Soviet Space Gain Seen was published in The New York Times on January 1st‚ 1961. This article quotes British man‚ Sir Arthur Charles Bernard Lowell. This article covers the opinion that Lowell

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    Decision Making Analysis Report Mengjie Chen Instructor‚ Peter G. Dominick Columbia and Tenerife Case study The Tenerife crash‚ recently referred as the biggest air disaster in history‚ seems to have little connection with the tragedy of Space Shuttle Columbia. However‚ there are similarities‚ especially some decisions made by two people from the two cases respectively. When they made certain decisions‚ they did fall into similar cognitive traps which‚ if identified in time‚ would prevent the

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    Ten years ago today‚ the first Canadian went into space. After the first Canadian to go to space‚ numerous Canadians made their venture to space‚ however none of them being a woman. Roberta Bondar made history in space and Canadian history by being the first Canadian women and first neurologist in space. A physician‚ neurologist‚ scientist‚ photographer and astronaut was abroad the space shuttle Discovery making Canadian history. From a very young age Roberta Bondar had a strong interest in science

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    Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is considered one of the most impressive science fiction films in the modern era and is a critically acclaimed masterpiece. To begin this analysis I will first give a synopsis of the films plot and key points to help lay a foundation for the film. The movie is broken into 4 acts‚ each focusing on a different event and time in the story. We first start with “The Dawn of Man”; we are greeted by what appears to be a tribe of early hominids foraging for food in

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    FLYING SHUTTLE ` Many of us will have studied the Industrial Revolution at schools and heard of the ‘Flying Shuttle’. Well what is it and why was it such an important invention? * A single person operating a loom from home‚ could only produce a piece of cloth that was as wide as their outstretched arms because they had to be able to throw the shuttle‚ carrying the weft‚ the horizontal yarn‚ through the waft‚ the vertical yarn and catch it. * If wider cloth was needed it took two or

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    The dystopian film‚ 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick journeys the galaxy during the commencement of the earth. During this enthralling journey comes the development of apes‚ which ignite the idea of the evolution of the most insolent species to ever roam the planet—humans. Now man has to prepare for the evolution of extreme intelligence—technology. Hal is an artificial intelligence that was created by Dave and Frank to help man with tasks easier and efficiently in the spaceship Discovery

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    Bell #1 Von Bell Professor Gayla Bell English 101 Expository Writing September 6‚ 2010 Invasion From Outer Space This story was a very interesting one to read‚ filled with numerous morals and themes‚ which express human nature‚ our environment and American culture and more complex ideas enclosed in the text. The story ends awkwardly and leaves the reader clueless about what happens in the future. Questions pop up like‚ does the dusts multiply? Does society find a way to get rid

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    Case Analysis 1. Which strategy- cost leadership‚ differentiation‚ or focus- is Shuttle America following? Explain. We think Shuttle America maintained its focus. Even though they had lots of competitors in the United States‚ they never took their eye of the prize. They remained focused even though looking for their startup capital was hard to produce in the first place. And in order to care for their patronizing customers‚ they kept their mechanics internally‚ meaning‚ they never hired outside

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