start-up raised a €6 million Series A funding round. Backers included Rocket Internet, no less, along with DN Capital, and Piton Capital. However, no less than one week later, Rocket Internet acquired Germany’s Volo, a start-up playing in exactly the same space. Five months later, Take Eat Easy already returned to investors with the closure of a €10 million Series B round led by Eight Roads Ventures and existing investors Rocket Internet, DN Capital and Piton Capital. Co-founder and CEO Adrien…
Korea. In return, other nations consented to support one million tons of heavy fuel oil to North Korea. However, North Korea rejected the talk since 2009 because of UN Security Council’s presidential statement to blame the North Korea’s launch of a long-range rocket in April…
“That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” The famous words of the first man to take a step on the moon, Neil Armstrong, rocked the nation in 1969. Prior to the first human landing on the moon, the morale in the United States was depleted. In the early 1960’s, the people of the United States were coping with the Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and civil rights for African Americans. Americans also felt uneasy about the ongoing Cold War with the Soviet Union and feared…
‘The defeat of Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain in 1940 was the main turning point in the second World War ‘How far do you agree with this statement? Between July and October dogfights between the RAF and Luftwaffe (who were the German air force) occurred in response to Germany’s bombing, of strategic targets on Britain’s mainland. Although many people believe that this was the main turning point in the war in Europe, it was more of an…
For millennia, humans have been looking up to the skies, wondering what is out there in the universe, and thinking about the glory of the moon and stars. During the Cold War between America and the Soviet Union, huge advancements in outer space technology were made, including the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. In 1958, the creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, put America ahead in the space race against the Soviet Union, and set a worldwide standard for space…
Why is space exploration important One year ago NASA made there own twin experiment. Scott Kelly was sent to the ISS while his identical twin brother stayed on Earth. About 340 days later Scott comes back to Earth, riding inside the snug soyuz coming back with him is Mikhail Korniyenko. While kelly-the-Earthbound wasn 't really doing anything besides collecting blood, urine, and saliva for research, NASA is also been taking samples from his brother. And by comparing the samples they 'll…
what we will expect to find next in space whether its solar system with a planet that can maintain life on it or whether we discover a new way to make space exploration easier and easier funded. We have to keep continuing to have space missions and launch space crafts into space to find out information but you cant rush to find new things in space, it will take a lot of money and a lot of patience to accomplish…
many things in his life and says that you should always dream big and never give up no matter how many failures you have. His first rocket exploded on the first launch and he never gave up or cried about it. Instead, he kept chasing his dream regardless of what happened. He wanted to explore space, and maybe take humans to Mars in the future, and keep performing rocket launches until they became successful. Also, when he got ousted by PayPal in 2000, he did not become depressed but instead…
Newswire article further explains how “using resources from the planet [Mars] instead of bringing everything from Earth has the potential to save the agency more than $100,000 per 2.2 pounds” (“NASA Challenge Seeks”). Instead of sending multiple rockets throughout the time humans are colonizing, the humans could potentially uses the resources already provided on Mars to be somewhat self sufficient. Both using the available resources while on Mars and sending the resources back to Earth offers…
extra countermeasure against the Me 262 (Schollars 2011). The other wonder weapon that dished out a huge amount of killing power is the Vergeltungswaffe 1 (V1), the world first cruise missile, a simple design with a novel pulse engine mounted on a rocket with a short wing (Schollars 2011). V1 had killed 6184 people in and around…