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    Soviet Union on October 4, 1957 and orbited the Earth for three months. At this moment the Soviet Union had officially started the Space Race and was currently in the lead. During this time the US citizens reacted differently. “From the 1950's, the United States and the Soviet Union attempted to surpass each other in feats of space exploration. What became known as "the space race" began with the Soviet's successful launch of the first ever artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, on October 4, 1957.…

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    Game- Colonel Graff. This theme also shows the audience how the characters right there wrongs were Cooper doesn’t give up on Earth and Ender dedicates his life to resurrect an alien species. Setting: The most important setting of the two films is ‘space’. However the difference between the two is that in Interstellar is mainly set in a foreign galaxy, whereas Ender’s Games begins in Earths solar system and branches out further into the film. These films are similar being that they both portray…

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    The Motel Short Story

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    It was a stormy day and the blank family decides to go on a vacation because they are sick of the nasty weather. The Blank parents decide on a destination to go on so they call down there kids liam and michael they are twins but do not get along at all. There parent finally announce they are going on vacation to pluto to see the moon rise. the next day they head to nasa to take off to pluto. The Blank family loads up the rocket with there stuff and they headed for pluto. Liam starts to pick on…

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    History: The Space Race

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    The Space Race The great space race started in the early 1950s. There were two sides, the democratic capitalists of the US, and the communists of the Soviet Union. The idea of space travel sparked a race to see who could get into space first. B both wanted to prove that their military and technology was better. October 4th, 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite to be in Earth’s orbit. It was seen as the new frontier in the technology of space travel. In 1958…

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    first humans on the moon. Launched by a Saturn V rocket from the Kennedy Space Center on July 16, the trip to the moon had lasted a total of ----- days, ---- hours, and ---- minutes from launch to…

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    present day an Afrikan man became president. Present day is worse because because country's fight over nothing The 60s is better than present day. One reason why i think the 1960s is better is the space race the space race was a great time in the 1960s. it shows in the text the first American to go into space was in 1963 . this is a good source because it doesn't take one side so it has good facts about both and it is fairly new . Another reason reason i…

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    Other than providing for the public; NASA’s research in space has further advanced robotic technologies, the relationship between diet and bone loss and the study of space itself and earth observations, to keep our world safe. Although space exploration is great for new studies and new inventions, it takes a lot of money to keep running and the ongoing issue it that the government doesn’t have enough money to keep the program going. Although space exploration can be costly, it can lead to…

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    Ocean Before Space

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    Space Exploration Space is the ongoing discovery and exploration of celestial structures in outer space by means of continuously evolving and growing technology. While the study of space is carried out mainly by astronomers with telescopes, the physical exploration of space is conducted both by unmanned robotic probes and human spaceflight. As Astronomers go further in space, finding essential knowledge of space, acquiring ways to survive the outskirts of the intergalactic space and also…

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    The Apollo Missions

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    missions explored the moon and capabilities of mankind, they pushed the boundaries and tested the possibilities of human adventure and exploration. The Apollo Program was the third United States human flight program carried out by National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA). The first moon landing was in 1969, led by president John F. Kennedy. He said, "Landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" was a national priority. His inspiring speech started the race to the…

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    Jfk Moon Speech

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    that we chose to analyze will be the “We choose to go to the moon” speech. The speech is about us going to the moon and competing with the soviet union to get to the moon first. He also wants the U.S. to go to the moon to find out more things about space and the rest of the universe. He said going to the moon will lead to more advances than there were before going to the moon. He hopes for more knowledge, and peace by this decision. He knows it's very dangerous to go to the moon but he thinks…

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