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    making nuclear bombs, everyone wanted to be informed if 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…

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    Essay On Sputnik

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    nevertheless, sought to encroach on Americas claims.This was evidential in the series of launches that Russia launched in outer space during the 1950s. “On the morning of October 4, 1957, Sputnik I became the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. The Soviet satellite was approximately the size of a basketball and weighed just 184 pounds (83.6 kilograms).” Then “Just as Americans started to get used to the incessant "beep ... beep . beep: ' and just as they were getting accustomed to the…

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    October Sky Analysis

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    Gyllenhaal, Chad Lindberg, Chris Owen, and William Lee Scott were the primary on-screen characters and performing artist within the movie; the theme of the movie was: when confronting affliction, never surrender. In October 1957, when the first simulated satellite, Sputnik goes into space, Homer Hickam gets to be enlivened to figure out how to manufacture rockets. With his friends, O’Dell and Roy Lee, and the neighborhood geek, Quentin, they attempt to understand how rockets operate through many…

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    Why did you choose to pursue the undergraduate degree that you did? Please discuss your professional aspirations and how your undergraduate degree will help you achieve these goals. My major field of study is Aerospace Engineering with a concentration in Astronautics. I chose Aerospace out of all other engineering concentrations, as I did not want to be held back by the "burdens" of a desk job. Of course, all careers involve paperwork, but I want to be in on the action. Instead of designing…

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    Mars Habitation Module

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    1. What is your challenge? The challenge is to create a video and visual representation of the habitation module that will carry the first human crew to Mars. 2. What is a hab? A Hab is the name of the spacecraft that will carry the first crew to Mars. It will incorporate complex systems so that it can provide for living people during the trip using the habitation and Orion module. As well as safely take astronauts to and from the surface of Mars and provide all of the system supplies,…

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    handle the already growing space debris problem today. Space debris, in this context, is all of the bits of destroyed man-made technology left in space, some of which fall into orbit. While in orbit, this space debris poses massive risks to active satellites or other spacecraft. Some efforts are being made to reduce the volume of debris but they may not be enough. It is entirely possible that a chain reaction has already begun and it is too late…

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    Space Debris Research

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    When the world launched the first object/satellite into earth, they probably were not anticipating how cluttered and dangerous it would become about sixty years later. Space debris has been a very popular subject over the last couple of decades. To be more specific, orbital debris is what this paper will mostly look at because that is mostly man-made objects that we have propelled into space and left there for years. These objects such as retired satellites and rockets orbit around in the low…

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    The Mars Mission

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    In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial Earth satellite into a low Earth orbit. The satellite was called “Sputnik 1” and it prompted Dwight D. Eisenhower’s successor (John F. Kennedy) to respond by implementing a mission that would send a few selected astronauts to the moon. By 1969, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sent three extraordinarily brave men on a historical mission that unbeknownst to them would become a highlight for the rest of mankind. Today…

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    Radar In The 1950's

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    and how Americans viewed the government and entertainment. Radar was one of the first advances to contribute to the war, then the development of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer that helped develop the fusion bomb. Next, the first satellite was sent to revolve around the Earth, but it was from the Soviet Union, which resulted in Americans drive to develop Explorer 1. It ultimately improved Americans understanding of space. Then lastly the use of television became a way of…

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    The Space Race Essay

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    The Space Race The date was July 31, 1956. The United States of America had just announced plans to launch an artificial satellite into earth orbit. Two days later, the communist collective known as the USSR did the same [1]. Although the USA had announced their goal first, the Russians beat them to it, launching Sputnik in late 1957, striking a blow to American confidence [2]. The next twelve years would be a whirlwind of technological innovation as both sides raced to exert control over the…

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