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    sightings, fear, illness, and eventually violence and suicide leave the protagonist, Karl Heinrich, all by himself on a doomed ocean voyage. Ultimately he leaves his ship and dies while exploring what he believes to be Atlantis. An episode of Star Trek: Voyager titled “Bliss” also deals with theme of a descent into madness. This science fiction 1990’s television show features the starship Voyager’s journey back to Earth, after being flung 70,000 light years away from Earth. Along the way, the…

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    The History Of NASA

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    National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, has been around for fifty-eight years now! NASA is a United States government agency that is responsible for air and space travel. It has accomplished several different things pertaining to air and space travel. The biggest accomplishes are: human space flight, first human landing on the Moon, they also have humans living on the ISS (International Space Station), They have sent space probes to every single one of the planets in…

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    At the point when the voyager goes To an intersection, he wishes he could tavel both, which is unthinkable for him. The explorer understands this and promptly rejects the thought. An alternate little disagreement are two comments in the second stanza about the street less voyaged…

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    Uranus Research Paper

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    planet Uranus could be studied was through the telescope. All information gathered on the distant planet could not be confirmed with a close up observation. The launch of NASA’s Voyager 2 in August of 1977, intended for the study of the outer solar system has provided pertinent information on the planet. On January 24, 1986, Voyager came within 100,000 km of the planet. It discovered eleven new moons (Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Belinda, Perdita, and…

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    Review of Literature I. Introduction- History of Ganymede Ganymede is the largest moon of Jupiter and in the entire Solar System. Ganymede is also the only moon to have a magnetosphere, which according to NOAA is the region of space surrounding an astronomical object in which charged particles are controlled by that object's magnetic field. Ganymede was discovered on January 7th, 1610 by Galileo Galilei, an Italian astronomer that played a huge role in the scientific revolution during the…

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    documented usage of the compass was between the times of 1405 and 1433. Zheng He, a voyager from the province Yunnan in China, was the first known user of the tool. The compass soon became a necessity to anyone who would sail. Although, the Arabs sailed more clear areas, so they got a hold of the appliance later than everyone else. Eventually, the invention was taken directly from China to Europe. This was the because a voyager, named Marco Polo, traveled to China and brought loads of inventions…

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    Native Americas and Europeans developed independently for many years before they experienced direct contacts with one another. Christopher Columbus, a European voyager set out to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia but instead found the Americas. When Columbus reached the Americas he wasn't too found of them, he was surprised by their living conditions as he mentioned it as crude. He must of thought of the Americas as dull minded people as he would describe them as "easy to be…

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    Uranus Research Paper

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    earth. Uranus also has a large figure and as stated earlier, it is the 3rd largest planet. There has only been one spacecraft to Uranus, which was Voyager 2 on this mission, NASA collected important details about Uranus and other planets as well. The planet Uranus has the third most amount of moons with 27 moons. 10 of those moons were discovered by Voyager 2. According to NASA most of Uranus’ moons are named after Shakespearean characters and a couple named after the works of Alexander…

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    Sir Francis Drake Analysis

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    In 1577, Sir Francis Drake famous voyage around the world was set of where Drake was commissioned by Elizabeth I for an expedition against the Spanish colonies on the American Pacific coast. Drake became the first Englishman to navigate the Straits of Magellan and the globe. The writer of the primary source is Francis Pretty, in which Francis Pretty was not appear very much in the story. Although, we could conclude that Drake accompanied Pretty on his voyage possibly as one of Drakes gentleman…

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    When you hear the word space exploration you automatically think of what is really out there or do other forms of life exist. One of the biggest achievements in American history is when NASA’s Apollo 11 first touched down on the moon on July 20, 1969. As Neil Armstrong was the first American to ever step foot onto the moon, but now the space program may be in jeopardy due to significant budget cuts. What would this mean to fellow Americans if space exploration were cut down or completely gotten…

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