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    African American Inventor

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    With his experience and knowledge, McCoy was able to build a lubrication system. His design allows machines and engines to be greased up without shutting it down. His invention allowed steam engine trains to significantly reduce its transportation time. Railroad engineers would often ask if the trains were equipped with “The real McCoy.” He also holds 57 patents under his belt. 5. Alexander Miles – The old elevator system was far from perfect. In fact, this resulted to multiple catastrophes…

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    in the show The 100 displays the characteristics of what makes a great leader. The television series takes place a century in the future, years after planet Earth is destroyed and the remaining survivors residing in an international space station. The space station known as The Ark discovered that their resources are running out. In order to insure their future is still in sight, the leaders of The Ark sends 100 juvenile prisoners back to planet Earth to determine its habitability. The prisoners…

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    When it comes to whether we should be focusing on sending humans on future missions, with the support of robotic missions or sending exclusively robotic missions there’s a lot of different we must consider. How much will the mission cost? How much time will be put into this? What are the risks? What are the advantages? Neil Degrasse Tyson states in the video that for every human you put in space, you can put hundreds even to thousands of unmanned probes and it would be less expensive. If that’s…

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    Drones Lab Report Answers

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    By only measuring between one to one hundred nanometres and some weighing less than 10 grams makes the nano drones the smallest drones available. A nano-drone is a billion times smaller than regular drone or 〖10〗^(-9) the size. Each piece of the Nano-drones has to be designed and functioning individually before they can be pieced together to form the final product. The naked eye cannot see the drones when they are one billionth the size of their counterpart. By making the drones to look like…

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    Since the early beginnings of the new socialist government, the Soviet Union was supportive of their scientists and their work. The 1920’s was a time period in which the government gave much support to the development of the rocket. Moscow even hosted the first “interplanetary machines” exhibit which drew crowds from all of the world in 1927. Though some of the appeal was due to being the first, the Soviet Union understood the importance of space exploration and the militaristic potential of…

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    1. The title of the article I read is “Meet the people behind the film Hidden Figures”. The author is Gerri Miller, and it was published on August 24, 2017. 2. The article “Meet the people behind the file Hidden Figures” by Gerri Miller is about the people who helped the set up the mathematical side of the movie Hidden Figures – a movie about three African-American women who were behind the calculations that launched John Glenn into orbit around the Earth. The article talks about how all the…

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    Muscle Loss Research

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    Instead, the issue might lie with the vigorousness of the exercise. In 1990, a head down bed rest was conducted that examined the bone loss of its participants compared to the measured loss of those aboard the space station MIR. It was found that the bed-ridden participants experienced a bone loss similar to those astronauts aboard MIR. Furthermore, the astronauts were a part of a moderate exercise routine, where the bed members were not (LeBlanc, et al., 2000). These…

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    Astronomy Research Paper

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    working on new and improved things. Right now NASA is planning a one way ticket to mars. NASA is building a ship powerful enough to take people to Mars, it will have enough supplies for 1,100 days in space. They are sending down overs to build the station and bring supplies. They will not come back on this mission but hopefully next time they will. Scientific discoveries have influenced society by even some of the earliest times. For example, did you know the Mayan calendar was one of the first…

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    Mars Pathfinder

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    rover (JPL, 2001). The mission was planned to last for only 7 days but the rover stayed on Mars, collecting data, from its landing on July 4, 1997 to September 27, 1997 which ended up being a total of 83 days. The lander itself (Carl Sagan Memorial Station) collected data via the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) and Atmospheric Structure Instrument/Meteorology Package (ASI/MET) (Nelson). The Sojourner rover was equipped with an Alpha/Proton/X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) and rover imaging cameras…

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    create an epic story of space, time, and technological progress. Kubrick sets the film in three different places: the African desert, inside a space station in orbit, and in space itself. When Dr. Heywood Floyd reaches the outpost station on the moon, Kubrick uses a wide angle lens to exploit the distortion of the lines. Such distortions make the station appear claustrophobic and serves as a reminder that the characters and we, as viewers, are in space. In the scene where Bowman appears to be…

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