Jeremy Kibbey Martin Rottler April 25, 2018 Kibbey 2000 Paper Industry Reading List Assignment “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” Said John F. Kennedy on September 12, 1962 at Rice University. This quote was also the introductory statement to the book “The Privatization of Space Exploration” By Lewis D Solomon, who explains the spirit of America in the 1960s we shifted our thinking from the age of the depression
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Challenger Disaster Research Paper Space Shuttle Challenger was first called as STA-099, and was built as a test vehicle for the space program. But despite its Earth-bound beginnings, STA-099 was destined for space. In 1979, NASA awarded a contract to Rockwell, a space shuttle manufacturer to convert the STA-099 to a space orbiter OV-099. After completion of OV-099, it arrived at the at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida
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My experience as the first space colony recruit was something else. Exploring the dark side of the moon was somewhat frightening. It was a lot darker than what I imagined it to be. The very first day of the exploration the people from the space station gave me a very good flashlight. They told me it could last up to thirty-six hours of lightness. My hopes dropped after The first day I went out with my supposed to be “good flashlight”; it died. The dumb flashlight lasted only like twenty-one minutes
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“Why choose Europa?” a reporter asked me. ”Why not Jupiter or Saturn?” “I want to be the first to explore unknown areas!” “Aren’t you scared about being alone for two years?” “I enjoy being alone. I can observe better.” “Why did NASA chose you?” “I worked as a scientist from mission control.” I boarded the space shuttle. I glanced outside. I would be travelling 390.4 million miles away from home. I would return after researching fifteen years later. Six years later we arrived at Europa. “This
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for mankind” from the landing is still being remembered and said among some people. However, there remains a question among other people: Did the Americans really land on the moon? Or is the whole landing a sinister hoax? And so the story goes. The Apollo 11 became the first manned spaceflight to land on the Moon, on July 20, 1969. On this day,
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The Saturn V rocket was the launch vehicle that launched the Apollo missions to the moon and even launched America’s first space station. The vehicle arose from Cold War tension and President Kennedy’s vow that America would go to the moon by the end of the decade. It launched using the following stages: the S-IC, the S-II, and the S-IVB. The purpose of the S-IC was to supply the initial lift-off needed for the trip to the moon. The 138 foot tall S-IC employed the F-1 liquid fueled rocket engine
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The Mars 1 (Sputnik 23) mission was a failed fly by in November 1962. It was successfully launched by the USSR (Soviet Union) on the first of November 1992. It began sending back data on interplanetary space (the space between planets which is not empty but filled with solar wind, Interplanetary Magnetic Field, Cosmic rays and Dust). After the station launched into the direction of Mars it started sending back radio transmissions every 2 days and then later into the mission every 5 days. But then
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1969 by putting american astronaut Neil Armstrong on the moon, The mission “The Eagle has Landed”or flight Apollo 11 primary objective was to perform a crewed lunar landing and then return back to earth(NASA:Apollo 11).Apollo 11 spent 76 Hours from when it left the launch site to when it landed in the pacific ocean a little under 1,000 miles southwest of Hawaii (NASA:Apollo 11). The Apollo 11 program costed a total of 25 billion dollars, the most expensive part of the mission was trying to develop
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Good Morning fellow classmates I am going to talk about the first man ever to walk on the moon. His name was Neil Armstrong. His quote was “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” I chose this speech because it stuck out to me not because he recently passed but they it sounded it just spoke to me. I am going to tell you about how he was brave, a true American, and how he is important to me. I think Neil Armstrong was very brave for multiple reasons. First is that he had gone out there
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Race for the Moon “I’m glad I was at NASA at that particular time because we had a mission. We had support. And the reason we had that mission and the support was basically because we were in a political war… with the Soviets” (Borman). The space race, as it was known, had been a major competition between the United States and Russia during the mid-to-late twentieth century, also the time of the Cold War. During this era, the moon landing was the biggest success for the Americans and a symbol
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