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    it 's true or not. Then, America came up with the idea of the satellite. This way, countries could watch and see what others are doing. The only problem was, it would have to go into Earths orbit.Which led to many other ideas. Such as going to the moon. When the Soviets heard about this, they were angered of the thought of a satellite. With the equipment to put objects in space, you could launch missiles to the other side of Earth and take out any country in sight. Instead of destroying…

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    lighting that the multiple light sources captured on the moon must have been impossible and only doable with the usage of the use of external lighting. Believing that an entire camera set was brought to the moon to take pictures is quite ludicrous, leading to the only logical reasoning for theorists that all photos from the mission are fraud. One of the more famously debated “faked” photographs depicts unparalleled shadows from the moon surface rocks and the lunar lander indicating that…

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    recounts a mission, following the moon landing, where everything went wrong. Tom Hanks starred as Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13. Bill Paxton plays Fred Haise, the lunar module pilot. Kevin Bacon played Jack Swigert, the third member of the crew who was originally on the backup crew. Jack Swigert got moved up thanks to Ken Mattingly, played Gary Sinise, predicted to get the measles. This movie takes place in 1970, close to a year after Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Thanks to Apollo…

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    Pluto Essay

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    northern which scientists say indicates a wide scale of resurfacing. The Vulcan Planum is an interesting landscape found on Charon. Charon is Pluto’s largest moon. These articles relate to Foundations of Science because part of science includes the study of the universe. If you are going to study the universe then you have to study Pluto and its moons. The two articles are valid because they cite credible sources. They cite people like Alan Stern who played a part in the spacecraft, New…

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    Oceanography 201

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    and fungi to break down oil from a spill is called_____. TOMBOLO e). A ____ is a sandbar that connects an island to the mainland DEPOSITIONAL SHORE f). The opposite of an erosional shore is a ___. HIGH TIDES g). The greatest pull of the moons gravity on the ocean occurs at it’s ______. FLOOD TIDE h). The opposite of an ebb tide is a _____. EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC i). The ____ is the political boundary of 200 nautical miles that surrounds islands and extends…

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    1960s, the end of world war 1 had passed. the calculator, artificial heart, and the first moon landing were all major attributions of the decade. The 1960s yielded many major technological advances from previous years. But with the changes, came dangers. Some of the major events of the 1960s were : JFK to win the presidency, The Peace corps is established, kennedy is assassinated, and man lands on the moon. Many more historical American events were to develop in the mid to late of the century.…

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    finds the moon is physically similar to Earth, the existence of thousands of stars that are invisible to the naked eye, and Jupiter’s four moons. He proves that the moon’s surface is similar to Earth’s terrain through his sketches of his observations. Galilei’s illustrations display the moon’s shaded ridges and spots to show how the moon’s surface is three dimensional and that it has a terrain similar to Earth’s mountains and valleys. He refers to a round cavity in the middle of the moon and…

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    Lunar 8 Research Paper

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    Lunar 8 was a lunar probe part of the lunar program as you know it was launched on December 3, 1965 with the objective of achieving a soft landing on the Moon but it really wasn’t soft at all. Actually the retrorocket was launched too late and suffered a hard impact on the lunar surface on the “Oceanus Procellarum” (Ocean of storms) the spacecraft spun , losing altitude control and preventing the hard impact. The mission only lasted for only three days not so long , but the mission did…

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    why should we care? Neil Armstrong was the first man too walk on the moon and the pilot too land on the moon. This all happened in 1996 July 20 he was not the first man in space however but that doesn’t matter right now. Why should you care about him? It’s a good chance that you weren't alive or were too young too remember when he landed. He opened up a whole new world too explore and thanks too him we beat russia too the moon. Also this was important because now we have satellites which can…

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    Moon Shadow

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    Moon Shadow tells the reader about how his dad works next to golden mountain doing laundry and some of the money he makes goes back to his mother and him. Then one day his cousin comes to them and asks Moon Shadow's mother if Moon Shadow can go work with his dad to help make more money so goes to San Francisco. Moon Shadows goes on a boat with his cousin hand clap to San Francisco but when they get to San Francisco it was not what Moonshadow expected they were nowhere near the golden mountain.…

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