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    S. civil aerospace research and development. When NASA opened for business on October 1‚ 1958‚ it accelerated the work already started on human and robotic spaceflight” (NASA 1). The Apollo 17‚ “...mission was the final in a series of three J-type missions planned for the Apollo Program” (Dunbar 2). “The Apollo program was designed to land humans on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth. Six of the missions

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    Sending Curiosity‚ a space rover‚ to mars is much more difficult than sending people into outer space for 2 major reasons: the amount of collaboration/effort and planning. NASA said that this mission “introduced the world to one of the most daring‚ inventive feats of engineering the world had ever witnessed: the pinpoint landing of NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars.” In addition‚ “no mission this ambitious had ever been attempted in the past” and “the landing presented problems that could not be compared

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    when the flag was placed onto the moon’s surface and it‚ seemingly‚ waved in a breeze. But‚ wait! There’s no air in space! How can there be a breeze? Well‚ that’s a good question‚ Captain Obvious. The answer comes from Mr.  “Roger Launius‚ [a] spaceflight historian of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.” His title certainly seems to be an indicator that this man knows what he’s talking about. Launius says‚ “the video you see where the flag’s moving is because the astronaut

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    ACHIEVEMENTS OF INDIA IN SPACE RESEARCH (1960-1970) The Indian space program began establishing itself with the launch of sounding rockets‚ which was complimented by India’s geographical proximity to the equator. These were launched from the newly-established ThumbaEquatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) ‚ built near Thiruvananthapuram in southern Kerala. Initially‚ American sounding rockets like the Nike-Apache‚ and French sounding rockets like the Centaure‚ were fired and used for studying

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    The Mission As a group we decided to focus on Project B: Living on Another Planet. Since this idea has been researched and extensively theorized by NASA’s finest‚ we felt that this topic would be interesting since it may be obtainable within our lifetime. What would it take to live on another planet? What would we need to survive‚ to thrive‚ and to be comfortable on our new “alien” planet? We chose not to present the question “How do we get there?” since that question brings up an infinite amount

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    Apollo 11 Conspiracy Outline

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    Andrea Retolaza American History May‚ 13th 2011 THESIS STATEMENT The Apollo 11 voyage to the moon by Neil Armstrong and his crew had several conspiracy theories of being a false expedition without success‚ which sprang from criticisms regarding the “Earthrise” photo. Andrea Retolaza American History May‚ 13th 2011 OUTLINE The Apollo 11 voyage to the moon could be not true I. The Apollo 11 voyage to the moon by Neil Armstrong and his crew had several

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    Amazon.com‚ Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is an American multinational electronic commercecompany with headquarters in Seattle‚ Washington‚ United States. It is the world’s largest online retailer.[3] Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States‚ Canada‚United Kingdom‚ Germany‚ France‚ Italy‚ Spain‚ Japan‚ and China. It may also launch websites in Netherlands‚ Sweden‚ and India.[4] It also provides international shipping to certain countries for some of its products. Jeff Bezos founded

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    edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/meteorites.html Author: Hyperphysics (2005) Title: Classification of Meteorites Date Retrieved: 9-15-05 Source: http://hyperphysics.phyastr.gsu.edu/hbase/solar/meteor.html Author: The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology‚ Astronomy‚ and Spaceflight (2005) Title: Meteorites‚ famous Date Retrieved: 9-15-05 Source: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/M/meteorites_famous.html Author: Encarta Online Encyclopedia (2005) Title: Meteorite Date Retrieved: 9-15-05 Source: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571891/Meteorite

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    When World War 2 ended a new war surfaced: it was the Cold War. It began in the summer of 1945 at the Potsdam Conference in occupied Germany. The conference was attended by the Soviet leaders‚ the British leaders and American leaders. President Truman was also there but left the conference feeling that Soviet leader‚ John Stalin‚ was planning to have world domination. This was the beginning of worldwide rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States. Throughout this 46 year struggle of

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    Do you remember the Berenstain Bears being the Berenstein Bears? Or think that the United States really wasn’t the first country to step on the moon? The previous questions connect to a few out of thousands of conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories are the belief that a person or organization secretly influenced or caused an event. For example‚ some people believe that 9/11 terrorist attacks were actually planned and carried out by the government‚ who would blame ISIS and give the government a

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