gender or skin colour‚ can contribute to the American society‚ “Hidden Figures not only tells an important story of civil rights and feminism in the United States‚ but it also recounts what was arguably one of the biggest achievements for NASA in spaceflight history: putting John Glenn into orbit” (Hanneke Weitering‚ Why ’Hidden Figures’ is a Movie Everyone Should Watch‚ space.com). ‘Hidden Figures’ doesn’t only provide an insight into specific historical events‚ but it also shows that great things
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Humans have always had a fascination with flying since the beginning of time. Hot air balloons were invented in 1783‚ one step closer to the airplane. The balloon is filled with hot air‚ which makes the balloon fly to the air because hot air is lighter than cool air. The only problem with the hot air balloon was that you could not control the direction it was going. The first airplane was actually a glider. This aircraft was launched from a cliff or from any high place. It rode on the wind
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Water and Life on Mars Mars perhaps first caught public interest in the late 1870s‚ when Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli reported using a telescope to observe canali‚ or channels‚ on Mars. By the turn of the century‚ popular songs told of sending messages between Earth and Mars by means of huge signal mirrors. On a darker side‚ H.G. Wells’ 1898 novel The War of the Worlds portrayed an invasion of Earth by technologically superior Martians desperate for water. (1) In the early 1900s
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According to data from World Bank‚ (last updated by 17th of January 2013)‚ 32.77 percent of population of the world are internet users‚ which could be translated into 2.239 billion of people out of 7 billion people (according to report on October 31st 2011). One of the biggest company in the internet industry of all time is Google. Receiving 200 million queries each day‚ having 71 percent of internet searches in United States and 87 percent in United Kingdom in 2008‚ with revenue of 50.18 billion
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Throughout history people have strived to improve technology and discover more information about the world and its universe. During the Cold War‚ the Soviet Union and the United States competed against each other in order to prove they were superior in space exploration. Being the first to send a satellite into space or land a man on the moon ultimately demonstrates advanced science programs‚ technology‚ and economic status. Therefore when the Soviet Union launched the first hand made satellite‚
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COLD WAR The Cold War was the tense relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) during the 46-year period following the World War II’s end‚ but before the end of the Soviet Union. It refers to the time between 1945 and 1991. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COLD WAR At the end of World War II‚ English author and journalist George Orwell used Cold war‚ as a general term‚ in his essay "You and the Atomic Bomb"‚ published October 19‚ 1945‚ in the British newspaper Tribune. Contemplating
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Stephen Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 to Dr. Frank Hawking‚ a research biologist‚ and Isobel Hawking. He had two younger sisters‚ Philippa and Mary‚ and an adopted brother‚ Edward.[11] Though Hawking’s parents were living in North London‚ they moved to Oxford while his mother was pregnant with Stephen‚ desiring a safer location for the birth of their first child. (London was under attack at the time by the Luftwaffe.)[12] According to Hawking‚ a German V-2 missile struck only a few streets away
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Funding NASA Imagine this for a second. A young teary-eyed boy sits in the waiting room of the hospital as the doctor informs him about his father’s failing heart. As awful and heartbreaking as this situation sounds‚ that boy’s father is able to stay alive via a ventricular assist device that will continue to pump blood through his veins until he can receive a necessary heart transplant. This device is ever-present in the field of medicine and is responsible for saving countless lives. Well
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Ender’s Game is a military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set in Earth’s future‚ the novel presents an imperiled mankind after two conflicts with the "Buggers"‚ an insectoid alien species. In preparation for an anticipated third invasion‚ children‚ including the novel’s protagonist‚ Ender Wiggin‚ are trained at a very young age through increasingly difficult games including some in zero gravity‚ where Ender’s tactical genius is revealed. The book originated as the short
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aviation industry‚ he received numerous golden awards such as the Presidential Medal Award and the Congressional Award. After working for NASA for 4 years from 1962‚ he made his first space flight in 1966‚ and three years later‚ he made the historic spaceflight to the moon. In his life‚ he married twice and had three children‚ namely Eric‚ Karen‚ and Mark (Byers 14-29 and Zemlicka 36-46). Neil Armstrong’s Influences Neil Armstrong made the debut lunar excursion module into the moon a progress he
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