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    It is planned in the year 2020 to spend multiple spacecrafts to further investigate Jupiter and its moons. The mission plan is to send two spacecrafts to orbit the Galilean moons of Europa and Ganymede. These spacecrafts are planned to be launch in 2020 and reach Jupiter in 2026‚ where they’ll orbit‚ and observe Jupiter and the moons for three years. The mission’s success could bring

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    What Is Voyager 1?

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    A manned spacecraft means a spacecraft that has crew members onboard‚ it needs people to function and steer the spacecraft. The Voyager 1 is an unmanned spacecraft. This means that no people need to be in the spacecraft whilst it is in space. NASA made Voyager 1 unmanned‚ so that it could travel faster and for a long period of time. They also didn’t want any distractions other than what the celestial body looked like in a spacecraft’s point of view. Voyager 1 travels at roughly 17.5km/s‚ and any

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    these problems? In the long run‚ some of us should migrate and settle down in Mars‚ our neighboring planet‚" said Yuri passionately. The audience was shocked by the speech. "How can we migrate to Mars in a short time? " "How much we need to launch spacecrafts?" The audience started a zealous discussion on Yuri’s speech. In January 2020‚ the USA‚ together with China and Russia‚ announced a space project based on the data collected from the "Curiosity" rover in Mars in 2015. The ultimate aim of the

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    [pic]pronunciation (help·info)) was India’s first unmanned lunar probe. It was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation in October 2008‚ and operated until August 2009. The mission included a lunar orbiter and an impactor. India launched the spacecraft with a modified version of the PSLV‚ PSLV C11[2][5] on 22 October 2008 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre‚ Sriharikota‚ Nellore District‚ Andhra Pradesh‚ about 80 km north of Chennai‚ at 06:22 IST (00:52 UTC).[6] Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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    organizations consisted of cross-functional teams that made independent decisions under different biases‚ and no co-ordination. In addition‚ the task group also experienced several technical anomalies with the Experimental Control Unit (ECU)‚ a box on the spacecraft that housed a number of electronic components. All these reasons led to a build-up of issues till the very end. Proper management and collaborative thinking could have led to timely decisions‚ avoiding many of the problems that GP-B faced. Pressures

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    The Apollo 13 exploration objective was to land in the Fra Mauro Area of the moon‚ but a sudden oxygen tank explosion prevented the spacecraft from landing‚ and facilitated changes to be made to the space program. To make interstellar travel believable NASA was created. The Apollo program was the idea that man could travel‚ walk upon‚ and see the moon. Apollo 13‚ the third human lunar landing and exploration mission‚ had been tentatively scheduled in July 1969 for launch

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    It is human nature to explore one’s surroundings. People have never known what is beyond our world‚ or beyond the Earth’s stratosphere. Spacecrafts are the answer. There are different kinds of spacecrafts‚ like probes‚ satellites‚ and rockets. Satellites do not contain people‚ but they are built to send pictures and videos back to Earth. The Voyager missions are one of the most successful satellites ever built. The Voyager missions changed the way we explore space today‚ encounter interstellar space

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    Apollo 13 Research Paper

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    Joe Kerwin‚ Lovell‚ and Jack Swigert were on NASA’s third moon-landing mission in space‚ 200‚000 miles away from Earth‚ fifty-six hours into the flight. A bang echoed through the spacecraft‚ which was a failing oxygen tank. Apollo 13 had a malfunction and it was that their oxygen tank exploded‚ so what will happen to the crew? Minutes after the explosion‚ Lovell happened to see oxygen gas out the left hand window and reported “We are venting something out into the space” to the CapCom. The crew was

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    artificial satellite ever. This was the start of the Space Age. Many important events happened in the Space Age. One of these events was the launch of Mariner 9. Mariner 9 is important because it was the first spacecraft to orbit Mars. It launched in 1971 but it wasn’t supposed to be the first spacecraft to orbit

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    The Space Race

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    The years after World War II was a time of great scientific and technological advancements. With these advancements came great tension and rivalry between the United States and the former Union of Soviet Socialists Republic (USSR). The biggest rivalry between the two superpowers was the advancement in space technology. In 1952‚ the International Geophysical Year (IGY) was established in which scientists stated that in the time between July 1‚ 1957 and December 31‚ 1958‚ solar activity would be at

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