Magellan Spacecraft, By Justinas Lialys

Jeremy Bravo once said, “Great leaders don’t set out to be leaders… they set out to make a difference. It’s never about the role. It’s always about the goal.” Although a remarkable navigator, Magellan never chose to make a positive impact on his crew’s lives. Leading a crew of young men gave him power to abuse or use, but instead of showing these men a dedicated and concerned leader, Magellan led the boys to a slow, painful death. Magellan was not worth defending in his last battle because he accepted inhumane ship conditions within his armada, treated people terribly, and he never fully reached the goals he promised the king. All of these failures as a leader explain why his crew refused to come to his rescue.

Sense I am on the side of my client, Nicolaus Copernicus, I will summarize the main reasons of why my client should not be in jail for such a ridiculous reason. My client has spent many years contemplating on what space actually looks like, and he came up with a idea. Nicolaus idea was that the sun was the center of the solar system not the earth, and that every planet orbits the sun. Your church false fully threw Nicolaus Copernicus into jail for heresy when he did nothing wrong. Why should we throw one of the greatest minds of our time, and waste his knowledge just because you have different religious views? Nicolaus shouldn’t have to waste his time in jail when he could be making other amazing discoveries, and further advance our knowledge in how our world works. Therefore I ask that my client Nicolaus Copernicus be set free from prison.

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Venus + Mars: Compare and contrast the evolution of the atmospheres of Mars, Venus, and Earth.

Galileo devised his own telescope, in which he observed the moon and found Venus had phases like the moon, proving it rotated around the sun.

The Apollo 13 is NASA’s seventh Apollo space mission taking human beings into the outer space. The Launch took place at Kennedy Space Center. The crew consisted of three men, James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert, and Fred W. Haise. “Houston, we have a problem…” was the saying that leads to the tragic event that took place on April 11, 1970.

Explorer 1 was America’s first satellite. It was under the direction of Dr. William H. Pickering but designed and built by Dr. James Van Allen. It was launched on January 31, 1958. Explorer 1 was launched on Cape Canaveral by the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. It was launched atop of Juno 1 which was a modified Jupiter-C booster. Explorer 1 was much smaller than the Sputniks, only 30.66 pounds, but It made the first important discovery about the space environment. It discovered an existence of a belt of charged particles which is called the Van Allen Belts. Explorer 1’s external skin of instrument section was painted in alternate strips of white and dark green because it would provide passive temperature control of the

Russian space probe Vega 1 landed on Venus. The module was of 1500 kg with 240 cm diametrical sphere, containing a surface Lander and a balloon explorer. The flyby probe performed a swig-by using Venus, and continued its mission to intercept the

I chose to research the Apollo mission. NASA didn't want just to go to the moon and come back. They had goals that would help others through this mission. Nasa wanted to establish technology to meet other national interests in space. They wanted to know more about the space and not just about the moon. Through these missions NASA has learned more than all the missions done in the past.Another goal that NASA had was to achieve preeminence in space for the United States. The United States set a standard for space exploration. Another goal was to carry out a program of scientific exploration of the Moon. It means that they are doing this program to learn more about the Moon and about what there is on it. I am so glad to study what NASA has done

Kepler and Galileo are responsible for the advancements of physics and astronomy in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Although these advancements were a part of the scientific community, one cannot be certain that their views rested on science alone. Theology was extremely important and influential in this time period, and the Catholic Church placed many limitations on scientists. With this being said, Kepler and Galileo must have had theological ideas in the back of their minds while working. They believed that God left the universe for man to figure out and discover, and they were sure that the work they were doing, independently, was the truth behind it all. Many people at the time, including the Catholic Church, did not agree with their work believing it was anti-religious and went against the word of God. The Catholic Church, quite offended by their work, punished both men for their publications. Kepler and Galileo stood by their work and believed that what they had accomplished was all for God. Kepler and Galileo both knew that they were religious men who were simply trying to uncover the truth behind the universe God has created; they thought they were serving God with their work.

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During the age of exploration there were many highly important inventions being made and also being used. One of the inventions from this time period is the astrolabe. The astrolabe is an ancient astronomical computer that was used mainly by navigators to solve problems in relation to not only time, but also problems relating to the position of the sun and the stars (“Morrison”). Astrolabes were historically used by astronomers, astrologers, and navigators. Astrolabes had many amazing uses like finding the time of day or time of night, finding the time of a celestial event like a sunrise or a sunset and could also be used as a reference of celestial positions and many more (“Morrison”).

Witcombe, Christopher L.C.E., (2005) “The Venus of Willendorf.” Retrieved from: http://arthistoryresources.net/willendorf/ on March 28, 2013.

Humans have always wondered what the universe looks like. Creating theories and refuting against themselves, by the 16th century, the geocentric view of the universe was the most accepted assumption of what the universe looks like. Copernicus and Galileo were two who challenged the theory and convinced the world that the geocentric view is, in fact, wrong. In other words, they decided to fight against the societal oppression of a widely accepted concept to create a controversy that changed the way everyone looked at the universe. By this, that individuals change their minds when given logical reasoning and scientific evidence can be implied, although unhurriedly, regardless of how popular and supported the knowledge is.