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    “Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto” by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was painted in 1597 ,with oils on a plaster canvas. The painting show three men, in a dark night sky around the moon. The main background of the painting is a night sky with clouds in the background and a large moon in the center of the painting. The foreground of the painting is three men in the sky. The man at the top of the painting is nude with a white robe around him. He is sitting on a bird with his face covered by his legs.…

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    At times of their life, humans naturally feel isolated and closed off from the world. During such times, isolation can cause humans to transform, experiencing changes in personality or attitude, usually for the worst. This type of isolation, however, is a novelty compared to the what astronaut Mark Watney underwent when he was abandoned on Mars, fifty million kilometers away from the nest human, in the novel The Martian by Andy Weir. After the HAB, the astronauts’ base in which they can maneuver…

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    John W. Young: Astronaut

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    Everything was done the same they just did not perform the lunar landing, NASA wanted to see if everything could support a mission to the moon. One of his most well known missions was Apollo 16, this mission’s purpose was lunar exploration. Apollo 16 launched on April 16, 1972 and landed on the moon on April 21, this was the fifth mission where people had walked on the moon. On this mission Young was Spacecraft Commander, Ken Mattingly and Charlie Duke were the…

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    There are many famous people who you may not know that was a veteran. When you think of veterans you normally think of ordinary people like you and I. Many famous veterans that served for the United States are people who you know as doing something else extraordinary. Extraordinary things veterans have done and you and I know is Neil Armstrong. You probably know him as the first man to walk on the moon. Neil Armstrong was a veteran in the Korean War. The veteran the I will be telling you about…

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    According to Space.com, Walter Cunningham and the people of his crew, did not get honored with NASA’s biggest award, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. Apollo 7 was the first manned Apollo mission, but they did not get awarded with this award until forty years later. The mission was at 1968, and the crew got the award at Oct 17, 2008. I can connect with him because I usually don’t get recognition if I do something good in the house. According to NASA he majored in physics. I find physics…

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    Space Coast Diversity

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    diversity is evident through Space Coast’s designated towns: Cocoa Beach, Palm Bay, Melbourne, Port Canaveral, Melbourne Beaches, Titusville, and Viera. Its identity is drawn from the Kennedy Space Center, which was the public face of a NASA space program that concluded with the landing of the shuttle Atlantis in July of 2011. The region’s current appeal rests largely in its beautiful white sand beaches, rocket launches from the…

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    A NASA shuttle orbiting Jupiter has hit another tangle. The space office said Wednesday that Juno identified an issue, went into protected mode and close off its cameras and instruments hours before it should disregard Jupiter's thick cloud tops. Juno rebooted its installed PC and can speak with Earth, yet its exercises are restricted until designers analyze what turned out badly. "It's too soon to take a figure," however the issue isn't brought on by the exceptional radiation belts…

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    Jfk Moon Project

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    several pages talking about these questions and their solutions. The mission Apollo 11 put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon soil on July 20, 1969. And this was one of the most importante days for the Human Race. As stated on the article, “NASA eventually spent $24.5 billion on the apollo programo f 16 unmaned missions and 12 manned missions. A total of 12 men walked on the moon from July 20,1969 to Dec. 11, 1972(Apollo…

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    Now is the time where I make the distinction between ancient times and modern times. This distinction is marked by two events which took place in the year of 1609. On July 26 of the year Thomas Harriot, a British astronomer and mathematician, among other things, was the first man to look through a "Dutch truncke", or telescope, at the moon and record what he saw. On July 26, 1609 he recorded his first sketch of the moon. Over the next year and a half he drew another seven sketches and two of…

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    Moon Landing Fake

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    I believe that the landing of the moon was fake because of some very good reason. First, why I think the moon landing was fake because in EVERY video or clip of Neil Armstrong walking on “The Moon” the background or in this case Space it appears to be nothing just a black surface. From a site that supplies facts that are factual it states “You will see the difference. The stars are very faint and get washed out by the bright light of the moon. The reason why no or very little stars can be seen…

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