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    Landsat 7 Case Study

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    Landsat 7 Landsat 7 is a sun-synchronous satellite operated as a joint project between NOSA, NOAA and the US Geological Survey. It continued the US long-term earth observation Landsat program. It have been successfully launched on 15th Aprial 1999 from the Western Test Range of Vandenberg Air Force Base with the altitude of 705 km and revisit time of 16 days. The service time of Landsat 7 is 5 years from July 1999 to October 2014. The detailed characteristic of Landsat 7 as blow Figure 5…

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    Quantum Computing vs Conventional Computing Conventional computing methods are the ones we use normally in our day to day lives on our computers, cell phones, laptops etc. Methods employed to solve problems via conventional or classical computing are by far closest to the way a human brain performs them. In classical computing, information is stored in bits which are the discrete values of 1s and 0s. Performing operations on these discrete values on a classical machine is the same as performing…

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    upper atmosphere research, or be prepared to be left in the dust. Wernher and his team were transported to the United States following the collapse of the German Reich. The US Secretary of State brilliantly approved the transfer of the Past-Nazi workers on work visas and false employment records. After their arrival and debriefing, von Braun was transferred to classified research bases in the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico. However, major concerns surrounded his old allegiance to the Nazi…

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    Ronald Reagan talked about the January 28, 1986 Challenger shuttle incident instead of on the state of congress and the grief it threw on our country. President Ronald Reagan was the speaker. He was the 40th president and head of the NASA space program. He was born in 1911 and died in 2004. He was also an actor in a large category of movies. When the shuttle exploded in 1986, it reminded people that bad things can happen to anything and anyone. We learned from that experience because we now…

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    the astronauts of this mission, Jim Lovell, “believed it was a success. The astronauts and the Space Control Center were tested on their ability to work together and that is how Apollo 13 succeeded” (Anastasio 90). Apollo 13 has bettered the space program by allowing future space entry missions to be more successful. Up until this point, space entry had been one of America’s greatest accomplishments. As Neil Armstrong once said, it was “one small step for man, one giant step for mankind”…

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    its Impact on Technology Today). There were also many by-products from the race. For example, scratch-resistant lenses were created by applying a diamond-like lubricating coat over the plastic lenses. This process was originally used in the space program known as “dual ion-beam bonding process”. Another new process was created during the Space Race. The process of freeze-drying foods was created to keep foods fresh for a long time. This was created so astronauts could keep foods fresh as they…

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    Without the newly developed methods and designs to reach space with the Saturn payload, the Apollo program won't be a success. In order to lift the massive payload required to reach the moon, the Saturn V rocket required millions pound of thrust. The First stage comprised of five-engine cluster for the 7.5 million pounds of thrust using liquid oxygen and kerosene fuel. The Second stage had five J-2 engines and the third with one J-2 engine all using hydrogen-oxygen fuel. Without the development…

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    The 2014 Oscar winning film Interstellar- directed by Christopher Nolan- shadows the protagonist Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) an ex-NASA pilot and engineer. The storyline begins in an apocalyptic America were the environment can no longer sustain human life. Out of chance Cooper and his daughter Murphy (Jessica Chastain) find the remains of NASA and discover just how little time humanity has. To save his children Cooper agrees to join the crew of the Endurance, tasked to locate a…

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    The excerpt which meets the criteria of being rhetorically effective was written by the author of the best-selling 2000 book, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Robert D. Putman. Ethos has been established early on in the text as the speaker is a Harvard professor who also uses numerous sources to support his argument. Putman has written this passage in order to discuss the nature of television in American life and how it affects our relationship with our community.…

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    The Motel Short Story

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    It was a stormy day and the blank family decides to go on a vacation because they are sick of the nasty weather. The Blank parents decide on a destination to go on so they call down there kids liam and michael they are twins but do not get along at all. There parent finally announce they are going on vacation to pluto to see the moon rise. the next day they head to nasa to take off to pluto. The Blank family loads up the rocket with there stuff and they headed for pluto. Liam starts to pick on…

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