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    Apollo 11 was the space flight that landed the first humans on the moon. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first astronauts involved. Mr Armstrong was the first to step onto the MOON the 21st of July at 2:56 UTC. They collected 21.5 kg of lunar material to take back to earth. There was also another astronaut called Michael Collins who piloted the command spacecraft by himself until Armstrong and Aldrin returned a day later to go back to earth. These were the first astronauts to…

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    century to come. As moon missions became an almost routine event through the Apollo missions, this fevered excitement began to decay until the Apollo missions were terminated and funding for space exploration became almost non-existent. It is now our generation's turn to rekindled the burning embers of our everlasting adventurous instincts to turn the next small step for man, into the next great leap into the future.…

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    The Sky World Short Story

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    In the beginning, the Earth was bare, devoid of any plants. The lands and oceans were untouched, sitting without a purpose. There were no humans or animals, everything was blank. Even the sky was empty: no sun, moon, or stars. The only scenery on Earth that could be seen were the clouds, which is where the Sky World could be found. Where human-like creatures inhabited this world. There were lush green trees and roses that always seemed to carry water droplets upon them. The beings who inhabited…

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    By drawing on this idea of using familiar forms with cutting-edge function, the modern space program could much more effectively market new missions like colonizing Mars. My conceptualization of a retro-themed infographic highlighting the benefits of going to Mars is one such example of how this can be achieved. The content draws strongly on the rhetoric of former NASA administrator Charles Bolden’s speech “Mars Matters” in which he offers tangible reasons why a Mars mission is beneficial to…

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    something irreplaceable. The head of the land of liberty has a responsibility to calm the nation, especially for an event an entire country lacked the ability to ignore. Nixon needed a speech that would assure the public that the two traveler’s trip to the moon was not for loss in the worst case scenario. The speech’s effectiveness mostly comes from the emphasis that they made a sacrifice for the greater good. This is seen in lines like,”These two men are laying down their lives in mankind's…

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    Finis By Frank Pollack

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    Analysis of “Finis” The “Finis” by Frank L. Pollack is story about how the city of New York was waiting for this gigantic mass of glowing matter; then after twenty-six years the rays of that second sun caused a huge disaster to the city. The story begins in the newly built Physics Building of Columbia University that was about twelve stories high. In the building, there was a physics laboratory that had many people inside of the room, their names were Davis, Eastwood, Alice Wardour, and…

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    IRIS Case Study

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    4 understanding of the Suns temperatures, in June of 2013, NASA launched the IRIS solar observatory. IRIS, short for Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, was launched to use imaging spectrography on the Sun. NASA’s goal was to determine “how solar material moves, gathers energy, and heats up as it travels through a little-understood region in the sun 's lower atmosphere. This interface region between the Sun 's photosphere and corona powers its dynamic million-degree atmosphere and drives the…

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    between fixed points, and Ultima grabbed hold of him and put him to rest, in the middle of the two points. This idea is represented by this image, with the scorching sun of the wild llano juxtaposed with the soft grass cascaded by the luminescence of the moon; the Luna and the Marez. But now in between these two opposites does not stand Ultima. It is Antonio between the Luna and the Marez; he holds his eyes closed with a peaceful stature, displaying his utmost care for each side in the middle…

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    life together "she lived with no other thought/ Than to love and be loved by me". I looked out of the little spot of the window that my purple curtains didn't cover right up at the bright, bright moon because "the moon never beams without bringing me dreams/ Of the beautiful Annabel Lee." Staring at the moon only brought me thoughts of an eye, a vulture eye, and this eye brings me to my…

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    being an astronaut, he is also a professor, United States Naval Aviator, voice actor, test pilot, Naval Officer, and aerospace engineer. Neil Armstrong’s courage to be the first man on the moon affected American culture forever. Before Neil Armstrong is landing operating space shuttles and walking on the moon, he is going to have some events that sparked him in his early life. Neil Armstrong is born on August 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. (NC, 1) The city now is only a population…

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