Spacecraft

Our history is full of events that played roles in changing our point of view about the world that we live on. One of those events was the Moon landing in 1969. It was a huge advancement in technology. Everyone was amazed when they know that humans were able to go to the moon and land on it. It was one of the United States greatest accomplishment because for the first time human were able to step onto the Moon. However, the United States was not the only country that doing research about rockets…

Russia Economy vs. the United States Economy There are many different measurement one can look at when comparing countries economy’s. Measurements include: inflation, unemployment, GDP, GDP per capita, exports, imports, interest rates, national debt, and currency exchange rate. Governments have power to influence these measurements, however, using Central Banks, Fiscal policies, and Monetary policies. The United States is regarded as one as the most complex economies in the world, while…

booster, which carried a satellite for Malaysian RazakSAT. Then, the Falcon 9 heavy-lift rocket was developed and launched successfully in 2010. Finally, the last high profile flight was the next Falcon 9 launch, which has became the first private spacecraft to reach orbit and return to Earth. However Falcon 9 exploded mid air costing SpaceX 25% of their 12 Billion dollar contract. They had money saved up so if an anomaly happened they would be able to bounce back from the catastrophe. SpaceX…

capsule. After they landed, Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the moon. Armstrong took the first step on the moon. He said, "That's one small step for (a) man; one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong and Aldrin spent more than two hours outside their spacecraft on the moon. They studied the surface. They collected rocks. After almost a day, they blasted off. They docked with Collins in orbit around the moon. All three then flew back to Earth. footprint_on_moon.jpg The first footprints on the…

interesting if you ask me. I strongly believe these creatures really walk and float all around our world. There had been so many sightings from around the world. For example, in New Mexico there were over four different sightings of these mysterious spacecraft looking objects floating in the sky. People described them as “Shiny gray round objects” On December 1, 2015 an eyewitness video taped a triangular forming shape floating on the skies of Signal Hill California. Also in Bullhead city…

On Wednesday, November 30th, Richard Hagar discussed his time as an engineer for the NASA Apollo projects. During NASA’S heyday, Mr. Hagar moved to Florida to work at the Kennedy Space center. As a spacecraft operator, he had an important role in developing, repairing, and modifying each of the Apollo missions. Throughout his endeavors, Mr. Hagar has seen Apollo 1’s failure, helped NASA problem solve through issues,, and helped rescue the astronauts on the Apollo 13 mission. Though the highly…

calculated trajectory, Pluto was finally in reach. In 2011 NASA completed the international space station, or ISS, is one of the largest objects to be put in space. New Horizons and the ISS are special because they were created with the previous spacecraft in mind. Aerospace engineers put protection around electronics to keep them from being disabled by solar flares. HD cameras and sensors were added to detect the composition of space anomalies are just a few of the things the engineers have…

An important part of teaching someone about your culture and worldview is showing them where you come from and how that has affected you. The three items I would choose to represent these aspects of me would be a lei, a photo of my mother’s house in Laos, and a photograph of Pale Blue Dot. These three items provide a mixture of my personal history as well as an accurate depiction of who I am as a person. The lei represents my upbringing in Hawaii as well as my admiration of the Hawaiian…

On September 12th, 1962, President John F. Kennedy organized to deliver a speech at Rice University in Houston, Texas, that played a huge role in shaping the efforts of the united states in technology and outer space. John F. Kennedy addresses to his audience, which includes government officials, congressmen, scientists and other students and faculty members of the university. His speech is considered to be a mark regarding the start of a modern era of exploration and innovation of outer space.…

The book Star Wars: Thrawn by Timothy Zahn is a well written book about Thrawn and Eli Vanto, two soldiers in the Imperial Navy. It is a canonized twist on the story of a popular character, Grand Admiral Thrawn, in the Star Wars fan base after Disney bought Star Wars from Lucasfilm. (In this case, canon means what did or didn’t happen in Disney’s Star Wars universe, not Lucasfilm’s.) Eli Vanto wanted to be a supply officer in the Imperial Navy, but on an assignment to a backwater planet, his…