Goddard Space Flight Center Summary

Dreams lead to false hopes and are deceiving! That’s at least what some say. But throughout the dream unit we have seen and have read about achieving our dreams and not going the distance. It is worth it to dream because dreams give us hope and purpose, working hard at our dreams can have a great outcome, and Dreams can lead to more than we can imagine.

“WANTED: Astronauts for Flight to Callisto”, the sign that caught my eye as I walk passed the front desk at the NASA Ames Research Center hoping for an internship. This must be really expensive and it does not seem like there is a limit to how many astronauts they are looking for. It is also surprising that I only have to pay $1000 to sign up as long as I do not have a criminal record or any suspicious reason to leave the planet. The fine print warns applicants of possible risks during the mission. But with my knowledge of the Earth and Space Sciences, I will know most of the effects of space flight to astronauts during a mission and so I am positive that I can survive this flight no matter what happens.

Unbeknownst to Robert and his allies, eyes were watching from the cliffs. When they cleared the cliffs they came across what seemed to be a swamp with many rivers cut into the earth like veins of the planet itself. “I believe” declared the Doctor “we may find a viable sample here. It seems the sort of place where plants would have such qualities, at least from a biological viewpoint.”

As the quote mentions, the study of plants is really important and can be very exciting. Before digging deeper into the quote from They Came before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima, I was not aware of how important relationships between plants and their environments were. Simple examples include a cactus to the desert climate, or a more complex example; the sunflower being native to both North and South America. This quote proves that botany is not just a simple science of plants, but very complex, for it opens up information that travels way back in time. Plants have been around since the beginning of life and are very important to the life of humans. The information from the slide titled “Did you know” is extremely important to the world of botany.

PURPOSE: The aim of the investigation was to further our understanding of the physical laws that govern our ability to receive and interpret information in the form of visible light. We have all had a physics class that at least brushed the introduction of optics, but we can still further our comprehension by experimenting with optics that have different characteristics. Does one axis truly get inverted when viewing an object through a lens? How significant of an effect does human error have in calculating reflection (if any)? How much does magnification blur an image viewed through an optic? How much does the angle of light deflect from a change of medium?

Explore and observe the objects in the solar system to understand how they formed and evolve

The ocean is filled with undiscovered animals and plants that could help us create sustainability. We’ve only explored 5% of the ocean. Ocean exploration can reveal new sources for life.

"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project...will be more exciting, or more impressive to mankind, or more important...and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish” -John F. Kennedy, May 25, 1961

"NASA's Kepler mission has doubled the number of known planets outside of our solar system. In what can only be described as a "bonanza", 715 new planets have been reported thanks to the Kepler space telescope's planet-hunting mission. Using a new method for verifying potential planets led to the volume of new discoveries from Kepler, which aims to help humans search for other worlds that may be like Earth."

Many scientist used telescopes to look at the planets and turned up the brightness. It helped showing how far the planet was and to show there are planets between the star and earth. Scientist started looking for pulsating stars and using them to find different planets. To find smaller planets scientist used NASA’s Kepler telescope. The telescope was very helpful for NASA and it proved that there are smaller planets. They figured out that some stars have planets. NASA’s help was very successful and they found different planets by the

One of Nasa’s long term goals is to space travel to mars. A man named Wernher Von Braun was one of the most influential figures to Nasa in the 1960’s. Von Braun helped Nasa put a man in orbit and contributed to technology of rockets. Von Braun used to work for the Natziz until America captured him and he agreed to be in the space program.

There are many things that are going on within Astro Tech that could be pinpointed as the one critical issue. There is the fact that they were under control from a new manager that has never done this specific type work. Jim had come from a different part of the company that was in Utah, and this was a promotion for him and a test to see if this was something that he could do to help the company flourish.

The first vascular plants appear on land (plants with water-conducting tissue). High seas spread worldwide, brachiopods, crinoids and corals also make an appearance.

A comet is a small-scale cosmic organization body made out of mostly ices alloyed with minor amounts of dust and rock. The main part of the comet is called the nucleus, the nucleus can contain water,methane,nitrogen and other volatile substances and ices. The closest point in a comet’s orbit is called Perihelion in addition to when the comet is at its furthest point to the sun is called aphelion.Comets have two tails: a dust tail as well as an ion tail. You can see the dust tail with your eyes.The plasma tail can’t be seen with your eyes, but can easily be photographed.

What I found the most interesting was a small part of the kelp center that had a breeding tank of Brine shrimp. The shrimp were tiny specks and under a microscope were tiny, clear objects that floated. The center had two sets of funnels side by side, one for adult shrimp and one for hatching shrimp. They both were simultaneously working