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    WEAPONS IN WWII The technological advances made in the World War II were amazing. We gained a lot of new understandings in technology. The Rocket Team that made the missiles that terrorized the streets of London helped send a man to the moon. And the weapon advancements were high too. The weapons that were discovered are still helpful to this day. The machine guns that were used in the war on the American side were: Browning M1919A4/A6 that fired up to 500 rounds in one minute, and the Browning

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    Thursday, June 12, 2014 CNN released the “NASA physicist artist unveil warp-speed craft design”. My scientifically obnoxious brain sparked with excitement. Another development was in progress! NASA is taking science fiction and programming it into the real world. I gazed at the picture on the digitized screen. The ship looked like it was straight out of Star Trek! However, this did not come as much of a surprise to me. I scrolled down and began to read the article, gaining the knowledge of what this

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    Moon Landings Essay In 1969, NASA launched a spaceship that was destined to go to the moon. Apollo 11 went to the moon with Neil Armstrong and other astronauts. When Apollo 11 came back from the moon, with rocks and videos, people still continue to believe that the landings were faked. Today in 2015, those people continue to believe that the landings were faked. Now why is that? Plenty of evidence that the moon landings were real. What do i believe? My opinion is that the moon landings

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    First Moon Essay

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    First, there are many reasons why the United States government and NASA would have wanted to fake the first Moon landing perhaps the most important reason is to win the "space race" with the Soviet Union. The United States government deemed it vital that it win the Space Race against the Soviet Union. Going to the Moon would be risky and expensive, as exemplified by President John F. Kennedy famously stating in a 1962 speech that the United States chose to go because it was hard. This was the height

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    Soccer V.S Alien Once a pond of time there was a soccer player who was one of the best. He had to make a team of soccer players to stop an alien invasion. So they had to go train. Oh god an alien space ship has landed. When they came out they were so tall they made a 6’5 person look small. When they came out they hit their head on the door. As the aliens came out they challenge the humans to a soccer match. They humans where teleported to a place in a forest and there was a soccer field. There

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    At the beginning of the twenty-first episode of CBS’s television series Men into Space, Colonel Edward McCauley, played by actor William Lundigan, presents a powerful, but human side to space exploration: "No matter where he travels, one thing will always be the same: man himself. Human nature will not change in the strange outposts of space. There will always be love and hate, courage and fear.” Yet, in 1960 when the program first aired, the Astronauts were not the ones who experienced the thrill

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    There was so much pressure placed on America, because the Russians launched a satellite successfully. That they needed to send someone into space. The task was so great that talent was needed from anywhere. Katherine Johnson gotten picked to assist in the space task group. She was the first African American in the group. Although Katherine accost may challenges, she never allowed them to keep her from processing the formulas. Her determination and love for math help her to be successful. She proved

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    On July 21, 1969 the United States government were the first humans to step foot on the moon, although people claim that this was a hoax. The reasoning for the hoax would be that the United States needed to assert their victory in the space race over Russia landing the Soviet Union. According to recent polls, approximately twenty percent of Americans believe that the U.S. never landed on the moon. This shows that a fraction of the American population genuinely believe that no man from the United

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    The movie, Apollo 13, is a true life story about NASA’s third mission to the moon in1970 that almost left three astronauts stranded in space. On the third day of the mission, an oxygen tank exploded during routine maintenance of the oxygen supply which resulted in three significant problems for the crew: a dissipating oxygen supply, reduced power on board and a damaged air filtering system, leaving the men susceptible to carbon dioxide poisoning. The combined efforts of the crew of the space craft

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    The stated purpose of Apollo 8 was the first manned mission to land on the moon. Going to the moon the crew entered the lunar orbit in christmas eve December 24, 1968. During the evening of that day they had a broadcast, between the earth and the moon in the spacecraft taking pictures. In being specific Jim Lovell was on board this flight and was first manned orbital flight around the moon. The only innovation in Apollo 8 there was almost a burn in the spacecraft, But if it had lasted the correct

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