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    manufactured by the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin of Germany. Both the zeppelin and Luftschiffbau Zeppelin Company were founded by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Airships, blimps, and dirigibles are practically synonyms and are basic terms for any lighter than air craft that is powered and steerable. Each Zeppelin had a name, like the Graf Zeppelin or The Giant Hindenburg, these two were famous, because they were used during World War One and Two. The difference between a rigid airship and a blimp is…

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    a failure, Watney found out that he had a thermodynamics problem with keeping the heat inside of his rover. What Watney was planning to do with this vehicle was to drive it to the Ares 4 landing site. Watney’s design proposal was to calculate the amount of power he needed for the rover to get to the Ares 4 landing site. He calculated that he needed “... 35 days of travel.” (page 67) This amount of travel time would also need to involve charging time and time sleeping. Another factor in this…

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    Picture Bride, it discovers a noteworthy certain, social event ever. In the mid twentieth century, paying little respect to the triumph of Japan in World War I, militarization causes¬ heaps of poverty in the country. Moreover, the course of action, for a couple of families that had young ladies, was to send them to Japanese men in the United States, who had settled down there for a couple of years, and had a solid job to live, and make the young ladies their wives. The families assume that their…

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    NASA Genesis Mission Failure Andrew Slimmon SID: 200365261 University of Regina 1.0: Introduction On August 8, 2001, the Genesis probe was launched at Cape Canaveral, Florida with the primary objective of retrieving samples of solar wind to be returned to Earth. These samples were intended to provide data including the chemical and isotopic composition of solar wind, which would help scientists understand how our solar system was formed(reference). When the probe’s drogue parachute failed to…

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    Writers use different methods to catch a reader 's attention, some can be caught by persuading the reader or audience using reasoning as well as facts towards the argument either positive or negative. Others could be convinced towards a certain argument over someone with authority. Stating the pros and proving them will make the audience agree with them. The audience’s attention could be shown by their reaction to a certain picture or imagine. What that picture could mean could vary and the…

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    rubble due to nuclear war. The only known survivors are the residents of twelve space stations in Earth 's orbit prior to the war. Once supplies run low on the space craft, the survivor’s hands are forced to send 100 juvenile delinquents to the surface of the Earth to see if it can sustain human life once more. In a crash landing on Earth, communication is lost and the 100 juvenile criminals are now on their own fending for a way to survive. Similar to the Age of Exploration in the 15th…

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    customers. 2. Power of Suppliers. There are two main suppliers of the aircraft which are Boeing and Airbus. As we can see there is no competition between them. We don’t have to worry about suppliers that are offering flight service besides building the craft. 3. Power of Buyers. In the industry the bargaining power of buyers is quite low. There are also high costs in cases of switching airplanes. There cannot be competition between the services as well because the seats in economic class are all…

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    Fifty-six hours into NASA’s third attempt to land on the moon, Houston radioed the spacecraft with a seemingly-innocent request. Following NASA’s instructions, the astronauts turned on the hydrogen and oxygen stirring fans in order to obtain more accurate readings. Two minutes later, an oxygen tank exploded. Electrical power and the altimeter readings began to fluctuate wildly. Communications were briefly lost. Three minutes later, fuel cells one and three failed. Over the next 130 minutes, the…

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    outcome of the war, but it helped the allies build strength to help and the war and that began the last chapter of WWII in Germany. This allowed to save so many lives and change the outcome of WWII. Eventually the war ended a year later after D-day.The landings in Normandy set the stage for the end of the German occupation in France. The Germans had no hope in winning the war and cost so many lives to be lost. The victory in Normandy and the support by the Americans by providing materials to…

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    launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida piloted by crew members, Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins. Their destination: Earth's moon, to collect samples and bring them back to Earth for testing. Apollo 11, the first moon landing, caused a technological revolution affecting the United States military, schools, and inventions. John F Kennedy initiated the United States involvement in the space race that was heavily influenced by the Soviet Union. Apollo 11 brought new…

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