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1. IMPACT OF CONTINUING RESOLUTION (CR) ACT ON PERMANENT CHANGE OF STATION (PCS) ORDERS. The Navy announced mid-December that Sailors should expect to receive their PCS orders with an approximate two months lead-time prior to execution of their move. This change follows the passage of a second CR that will fund the government through April 2017. While the Navy makes every effort to ensure that PCS orders are released in a timely manner, fiscal challenges result in compressed PCS timelines…

The Columbia Shuttle was the oldest shuttle in the NASA fleet. On January 16, 2003 Columbia Space Shuttle’s 28th mission took place. Eight seconds into the launch a piece of foam insulation broke off from the propellant tank and hit the left wing of the shuttle. The cameras used to capture the launch could not focus accordingly on the shuttle while taking off; crash engineers could not pinpoint exactly where the damage took place. On February 1, 2003 Columbia Shuttle broke down while when…

dreams during this time helped create Googie style architecture within the real world. “Googie made the future accessible to everyone” This Space Age form of building was used in the daily lives of people, stylizing cafes, restaurants, and even gas stations. Some grander examples of Googie design would be the Space Needle in Seattle, Tomorrowland’s building design with Disneyland, and older designs of the McDonalds buildings. To the public, this style represented the future brought into their…

The Hubble telescope is a telescope named after famous astronomer Edwin Hubble. It orbits in space 380 miles above Earth’s surface, traveling 5 miles per second, finishing an orbit around Earth in 97 minutes. Hubble takes sharp images of space without looking at Earth’s atmosphere, which blurs pictures due to the atmosphere being constantly in motion. The telescope is 2.4 meters in length and has mirrors 94 inches in diameter. Some celestial objects that Hubble takes images of are stars and…

Colonizing Mars Living on Mars will be hard and will have its ups and downs, many humans won’t be able to survive on Mars. Mars is about two hundred and fifty million miles away NASA is hoping to launch in 2024 and land in 2025. The first person ever to step on Mars will be around nine years from now. Mars should not be colonized, the trip will be expensive and everybody needs food and water also, everybody will need to wear a spacesuit at all times. If NASA colonizes Mars, everybody…

Neil Armstrong began his career at NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) as well as NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) in Ohio. He first joined NACA in 1955, and was first assigned to be in Cleveland to work with the NACA Lewis Research Center (now NASA Glenn Research Center). When he was driving from Cleveland to southern California, he stopped by northern Wisconsin, where he asked Shearon to marry him and go with him to California. In January 1956, Neil and Janet…

For Apollo’s moon mission,American Government had to make huge expenditures from it’s budget and this was the first time in American History.Duringit’s peak years, about 34,000 NASA workers and 375,000 outside temporary workers partook in the program. Abe Silverstein who is the Director of Space Flight Development, proposed the name "Apollo" the reason was actually “Apollo” is the name of a god in ancient Greek mythology with attractive connotations and actually in order to naming spaceflight…

Expository Essay for Life as We Knew It One event changed their life forever. The novel Life as We Knew It by author Susan Beth Pfeffer is a realistic-fiction novel about survival. In the novel, the protagonist Miranda and her family want to survive the disasters caused by the protagonist, the asteroid that hit the moon. The lack of water, food, and electricity was keeping them from being successful. The severe climate changes, such as droughts and major temperature changes, along with…

Running head: NEIL ARMSTRONG 1 Neil Armstrong Michael Roembke EN144: English Composition Jayme Cook June 30th, 2016 Brookline College NEIL ARMSTRONG 2 Neil Armstrong Born August 5th, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio, Neil Armstrong to this day is one of our most known historical figures (Dunbar, n.d.). Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon; he took that step on July 20th, 1969 (history.com staff, 2010). On that day one of the most famous quotes were spoken, “That’s one small step for…

In the old days, many believe that we are the only living things on our galaxy or even in the whole universe. No one even bothers to look beyond our planet and explore the space for that matter. Though in Ancient Egypt, Babylonians use to study the Sun, Moon and stars just to generate a calendar for farming and religious rites but it never extended that far. Then in early 1900's people started to explore space and study matters beyond our planet. Edwin Hubble was the first person who introduced…