Will serve as the company chair. 2008 NASA selects the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle and the reusable Dragon spacecraft to deliver cargo to the International Space Station after the space shuttles retire. 2010 Makes a cameo appearance in Iron Man 2. Director Jon Favreau cites Musk as an inspiration for Tony Stark. 2012 SpaceX’s Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft to berth with the ISS . Inventions Elon Musk is best known for being the co-founder of PayPal‚ a money-transfer
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San Marco Italian Satellite San Marco was an Italian earth atmosphere satellite. The launch vehicle was provided by NASA and had been launched with an Italian launch crew. There were a total of five launches of the San Marco satellite‚ beginning on December 12‚ 1964‚ and the last launch on March 25‚ 1988. This Italian satellite was used for atmospheric density studies. The Italian-built San Marco Satellite was a cooperative space effort between the Italian Space Commission (CRS) and NASA. The primary
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SpaceX designs‚ manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. Musk serves SpaceX as the CEO and Lead Designer. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit (happened in December 2010). In May 2012‚ company made history again when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station‚ exchanged cargo payloads‚ and returned safely to Earth. This was previously done only governments
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supervise the manufacture of aircraft‚ spacecraft‚ and missiles. . . Aerospace engineers develop new technologies for use in aviation‚ defense systems . . . They may also specialize in a particular type of aerospace product‚ such as commercial aircraft‚ military fighter jets‚ helicopters‚ spacecraft‚ or missiles and rockets and‚ may become experts in aerodynamics‚ thermodynamics . . .” (US Government). The idea of flying‚ building fighter jets‚ helicopters‚ spacecrafts or missiles has great appeal to me
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present from the evaporation of flowing water. Looking through his telescope Lowell became convinced he could see a network of artificial canals. This led him to believe that there were intelligent beings on Mars who had built these canals. However‚ spacecraft have now visited Mars and found that there is no evidence of water at all. It is now thought that the lines he could see were the combination of Lowell’s overactive imagination‚ and scratches on the lens of his telescope. We are now searching one
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existence of Pluto for over thirty years now‚ there are still many mysteries surrounding this celestial body. Being the farthest planet has made it difficult to study Pluto‚ Adding to the obscurity of this strange planet is that the capability to send spacecraft such distances has never been achieved. Through the wonders of science and astronomy‚ there are many things that can be determined‚ concluded‚ and hypothesized about this obscure planet. Pluto’s discovery was actually a fortunate accident. Clyde
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INTRODUCTION Space exploration is the investigation of physical conditions in space and on stars‚ planets‚ and their moons through the use of artificial satellites (spacecraft that orbit the earth)‚ space probes (spacecraft that pass through the solar system and that may or may not orbit another celestial body)‚ and spacecraft with human crews.( http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=44593) As a senior officer with Malaysia National Space Agency (MNSA)‚ I was invited by the English
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heat conducted through a bar is The Stefan - Boltzmann law gives the radiant energy emitted or absorbed by an object: Radiation Ex: The sun shines directly on one side of a flat black panel on a spacecraft which has an area of 5.0 m2 and an emissivity of e = 0.95. The spacecraft is located 1.5 1011 m from the sun. How much power does the panel absorb from the sun if the sun is considered to be an ideal blackbody with a temperature of 5700 K? Assuming that the panel can only lose
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Earth’s Moon The Earth’s Moon is the most important moon in the solar system in regards to Earth and all of the living things within it. It is also the only Moon that Earth has‚ whereas other planets‚ like Mars‚ have multiple Moons. The Moon is the only other Moon that humans have set foot on‚ which helped us to understand the formation‚ internal structure‚ and history of it. The “moon’s face” is the second brightest thing in the solar system after the Sun‚ and has a dark surface in actuality
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that scientist have made wonderful discoveries over time‚ however‚ realistic evidence of proving life existence other than on Earth has not been one of those sightings. Of course there are many individuals that claim that they have seen an “alien spacecraft” or witnessed a “space invasion” and have claimed to have been supposedly abducted by “aliens”. Although what they could have seen could have looked very much like something from another planet because they have no evidence to show what they saw
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