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    to create an epic story of space, time, and technological progress. Kubrick sets the film in three different places: the African desert, inside a space station in orbit, and in space itself. When Dr. Heywood Floyd reaches the outpost station on the moon, Kubrick uses a wide angle lens to exploit the distortion of the lines. Such distortions make the station appear claustrophobic and serves as a reminder that the characters and we, as viewers, are in space. In the scene where Bowman appears to…

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    What Is Pluto?

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    Pluto, the most puzzling world in the solar system, is the second largest dwarf planet made of ice and rock. It is 5.9 billion km from the Sun; it has the width of North America. It is a very cold place with minimum temperature of -370 degree Fahrenheit on the surface. One year on Pluto is equal to 248 Earth’s years; it takes a very long time to orbit the Sun. In addition, a day in Pluto lasts 6 Earth’s day. Pluto is a world that stands with light and shade, what causes this contrast may be that…

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    For example, In the ending of the episode, the podcast hosts exclaim that money helps motivate you to go to space but once you get there, it has to be about something more than just wealth. One of the hosts says, “Take the last transmissions from the moon, December 1972, when you hear them talking, you hear something else.” the sound shifts into a soundbite from the Apollo 17 landing, “We are coming in, oh baby! We’d like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible,…

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    Meet Tim and his four friends Skippy, Schlomo, Schlob, and Gary. A few years ago they decided to meet up at the moon for a get together. They had fun, hung out, and even hiked some craters. On the last day of their trip they went out to eat. Schlomo came up with the idea to play tag, and then Skippy said let's play the biggest game of tag ever. They all agreed and played rock, paper, scissors to find out who would be it first. Schlob lost and the others were given two hours to travel to…

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    Have you ever wondered how weird it would be to find weird objects in your yard, something that you don’t know what it is but doesn’t like it’s from Earth. In the summer of 1947, a rancher with the name of Mac Brazel had discovered unidentifiable objects in his pasture in Roswell, New Mexico. It was some sort of metallic stick that were held together with some sort of tape, there were chunks of plastic and reflectors, and very heavy glossy paper like material. Glenn Dennis stated “ there were…

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    The government should continue to fund NASA because according to the History of Space Exploration Project we did, it shows that we weren’t able to see what Earth really looked like until Explorer 6 was launched. This is important because for the longest time, people thought the earth was flat. Then, after that we said it was a sphere. But, we never really knew what Earth looked like until launching a satellite capable of sending pictures of Earth from space. These pictures showed if Earth was…

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    The drawing here is the same as the front cover except it has letters pointing to different things on the ancient Egyptian carving and above it is the tricycle, bicycle with a black man (=Africa) with a red canary on his left neck, which is the Canary Islands off the West Coast of Africa where the great tidal wave starts at. See chapter 4 for the detail of these things in prophecy. The letters A-B-C pointing at the tail of Draco the Dragon as a Hippo with a crocodile's tail down its back…

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    This is my report.The Hubble Telescope does not travel to stars, planets or galaxies. It takes pictures of them as it whirls around Earth at about 27 000 kilometers per hour. But there were five missions that went to the Hubble Space Craft. All of the missions were servicing missions where they upgraded the Hubble space craft so that it would operate for a longer time because it was making so many interesting discoveries.The Hubble Space Telescope is unmanned. A unmanned spacecraft is when no…

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    A unmanned spacecraft launched in 1997 called Cassini arrived at Saturn in 2004. After, its last flyby of one of Saturn's moons on April 21st Cassini, was prepared for what mission planners called mission planners are called its "Grand Finale." On April 22, 2017, a final flyby of Cassini was sent through the gap between Saturn and the inner ring. The spacecraft came within the cloud on jupiter and 200 miles of the most visible edge of its ring. As it has never been done before mission managers…

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    Just being in space is dangerous. All these movies about space is actually giving us a warning about what could happen. The Apollo Movies are actual events that happened in astronautics in the early age of space flight and that was just going to the moon. Here are some reasons on why we shouldn't be going to Mars. First of all, going to Mars would cost millions. No, billions, about 6 billion or more. The rover sent to Mars cost 2.5 billion. Sending people and supplies over there would…

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