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The United States was one of the two contestants in the space race. Who was the other one you might ask? The Soviet Union, now known as Russia. The space race was a competition to be the leading country in space travel. It sprouted when The Soviet Union launched the first satellite into space, Sputnik I. This race is what sprouted NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). This program uncovers the mysteries of space and sends people, satellites, and equipment to space. The Cold War was a fight for power between the Soviet Union and the U.S that lasted from 1947 to 1991. The Soviet Union and the U.S were superpowers, or nations with the most power. These two link two each other because being ahead in space travel would show who is more advanced in technology at that point in time.

“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely back to earth.” –Kennedy

Paragraph 1: The space race was a key factor to the development of spaceflight capability. This competition between the United States and the USSR for supremacy in spaceflight efficiency began on August 2, 1955. When the United States said that they would launch artificial satellites in the future, the Soviet Union acted quickly by beating the U.S. with the the October 4, 1957 “Sputnik,” that orbited the Earth every 98 minutes with its elliptical path. The U.S. was impacted dramatically, science became a priority in schools and universities

They say that everything comes with a price. Even one’s most visible dream has its unthinkable consequences. Thrown into foreign environments and are faced with situations they’ve never faced before are the costs of curiosity. Exploring the two books The Odyssey of Homer by Allen Mandelbaum, and 2001: Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke, the hidden meanings of adventure unveils itself.

Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google making us stupid?” (2008) demonstrates on how the complex search engine can drastically change individuals reading habits. Google has been a leading search engine for well over the past decade, and continues to break down and distribute information so simple that a Neanderthal could understand. Carr has an uncanny way of bringing his point across by the use of symbolic pop culture refrerences that reinforce his unique way of swaying the reader. Carr’s reference to “Space Odyssey” portrays how Google can change our way of thinking, without actually noticing anything at all. Carr notes “ My mind isin’t going—so far as I can tell---but it’s changing” (Carr, 2008, P. 89) To further understand this revelation, Carr documents his conversations with notable professors in regards to how the so called “Information age” is forever changing our way of how we perceive and decode information

2001 Space Odyssey The film segment chosen was the final scene from Stanley Kubrik^s 2001 A Space Odyssey made in 1968. As the name would suggest, the film is set almost entirely in the future. Already having projected itself over 30 years into the future, it would be safe to assume that this motion picture offers a wealth of imagery and futuristic vision. It does. It is towards the end of the film, however, that Kubrik offers this to us on a much greater scale. In these few minutes, we are presented with the dawn of a new era: a near incomprehensible evolution of humanity. Through many complex design devices, the set design successfully achieves a vision for the future that is neither dystopian, nor entirely utopian, yet extraordinarily

The book, The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is a Science Fiction Comedy that tells the story of a man named Arthur Dent and his experience with space travel. After waking to a bulldozer on his front lawn ready to charge, Arthur’s best friend, an alien disguised as an out of work actor, Ford Perfect, reassures Arthur that the sad demise of his house is nothing compared to the destruction of earth in the next ten minutes. With people all around the world scrambling for safety, and even placing brown paper bags on their heads and laying on the floor, Ford decided that the only way he and Arthur can survive is to hitch a ride with the aliens that are destroying their home. The next two-hundred pages tell the story of Arthur and Ford in space, of course with their towel (every hitchhiker has one), trying not to die from the wrath of multiple alien species.

Jim Sciutto conducted a 1-hr documentary on the inevitable war in space. Sciutto interviewed more than ten national security, defense and high-ranking military personnel to include the entire chain of command for space warfare. Sciutto explains that American (citizens, military, and government) depends on our satellites every day. However, our adversaries are targeting America's satellites and are preparing to disarm America from her satellites usage with weapon systems such as lasers, kamikaze satellites, and even kidnapper satellites.

First I will be giving a brief synopysis of 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick. This movie start off somewhere millions of years ago. Where ape like creatures who could be the start of humans are seen in their natural habitat doing what they would naturally be doing. Then they come across something unusual a black structure known as a monolith, upon coming across this monolith the ape starts to change and this is when the the first sign of tool usage. By one ape being curious and finding the remaining bones of an animal and then starts using the bones as tools, starting to hit things with it which then set them apart from others. Here is where evolution appears and the change of men is seen. As time passes to the future, the movie

In The Aliens written by Leister in starts off in the Theta solar system. On Nicola the space ship piloted by the skipper and his crew, in search of information about the Plumes who also has space travel abilities. When the crew reaches the sun an unusual comet comes in contact, which turns out to be another space ship. In panic the crew flees the sun but in not going very far with the space ship hurling directly behind them. Captain, knowing there’s no escape ready’s the rockets and awaits the inevitable.

Bas Lansdorp is the creator of Mars One. Mars One is the Mars colonization effort. The organization is a non-profit created by former NASA employee, Bas Lansdorp. “Mars One's mission design is currently in the early mission concept phase. So far, the main requirements for the mission have been identified and discussed with established aerospace companies.” As we can see, Bas Lansdorp has created Mars One, and knows its mission, but is still not completely stable about the technical details. “Human settlement on Mars is the next giant leap for humankind. This exploration of the solar system will bring the human race closer together.”.

A stone tablet comes down and teaches the man-apes how to use tools, and saves them from extinction. This use of tools sets up the main theme of the novel- the advancement of tools in relationship to the evolution of humans. The novel continues and there is a fast forward to the future, where man has progressed to the moon. There is the discovery of a new monolith, and humans learn that it is transmitting data to a moon on Saturn. Next there is a fast forward to on the spaceship Discovery One where five people, two awake and three in hibernation, and an artificial intelligence robot, HAL, are on a path to the moon on Saturn. Frank Poole and Dave Bowman are two astronauts who are described as generalists. HAL sees the humans as a limitation to the ability for him to complete the mission, so he kills Poole, but Bowman survives and manages to disconnect HAL. After travelling alone for years, he reaches the moon on Saturn, but enters a massive Monolith called the “Star-Gate.” He is transfered to a white room where there is plenty of food and water, and he spends the rest of his life in this room, eventually evolving into humans next “form,” a Star-Child. He then returns to earth and stops a nuclear war from starting- a reference to the Cold War. This is where the novel ends and the sequel

The Incredible Space Raiders: From Space is about a boy named Jonah who was spending a school night at home but then suddenly he got kidnapped! Then he suddenly woken up in a ship with a team that protects the galaxy from the darkness. Jonah goes on to these adventures with the incredible space raiders from space. My favourite part of the book that was really funny was when Jonah found a girl named sally who has very good aim unlike Jonah. One time they needed to throw glass at the wires, Jonah missed all of them and said sally would haven't done any better. Then Sally threw the glass with perfect aim and showed off Jonah with the dirty look and then after it was really awkward and funny. The main characters are Jonah, Sally, Lieutenant Gordon,

The world is starting a brand new kind of space race. Unlike the space race between the Soviets and the United States it is starting to become between new private space companies. Some of the more known companies like: SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic have started to pioneer news way to get to space and further than no one has gone before. With technology advancing everyday it seems, there are sure to be laws passed that make privatized space travel have their fair share of laws. Recent advances in their technology has brought up agreements with the government funded program NASA and is making sending civilians to space and future humans to Mars more and more a reality. Since the start of these private companies in the

Factors contributed to the launch performance of KONE on the Netherlands, France and UK? When launched, sales of KONE’s Monospace was the highest in Netherlands, then France and in UK none was sold in the first 3 months. Monospace is an elevator invented by KONE using the latest technology that uses an “EcoDisc” that eliminates the use of a machine room and further incur significant energy cost savings for the building management. It is an upgraded version for geared traction elevators. There is more construction freedom and construction costs could be saved using Monospace too. The technology of Monospace then could be used for buildings of 12 floors or less. Hence KONE marketing team targets the