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    Analysis of “The Moon: Cold, Wet, and Breathing.” The article “Top 100 Stories of 2009 #16: The Moon: Cold, Wet, and Breathing” from DiscoveryMagazine.com discusses the LCROSS mission of 2009. This is a Moon mission conducted to search for the presence of water (Barone 2009). The mission is an important part of the ultimate goal of visiting the Moon and establishing a Moon base (NASA 2005). The article is written to expand upon what occurred during the LCROSS mission (Barone 2009). LCROSS

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    Conrad Dudziak Erika Harnett ESS 102 AC 20 October 2015 The Hazards of Space Travel for the Human Body In the year 2042, aerospace engineers continue to struggle with the challenge of a manned mission to mars. Biomedical complications disrupt any advancements in the effort, as astronaut safety is considered the most fundamental aspect of a successful mission. In order to study the effects of weightlessness and radiation in a deep space environment, NASA launches a government funded space station

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    How many times have you heard your parents exclaim to you, “You’re not paying attention because your always on your phone!” I have been accused by this quote more than enough times I’d like during my lifetime, but Google isn’t making me lose focus or getting distracted. As most people believe, Google is making our society crumble because it is making us stupid. But actually, that isn’t the case. Google, the famous search engine used by many, is used to research information on someone or something

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    Rubert Ship Trip

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    Rubert set the ship to autopilot. He was going to Earth to rescue his father and try and find a way to reverse the effects on his planet from the human made bomb. He decided to explore this large Earth spacecraft since it would be a while until he reached Earth. Earth was in the Milky Way Galaxy which was approximately one million lightyears away from the Nova Galaxy where his planet Rotonia was located. This distance, determined by the computer, would take about a week to travel. So until he reached

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    Rocketry Pioneer, 9/25/15). His findings are still used in modern day rockets all around the world. Ultimately it was his finding that lead to President Nixon's approval of the space shuttle program in 1972 (Kerod, 2005). Even though Nasa had already been established they didn't have a space shuttle program. When the first rocket was launched all that was retrieved was the capsule that carried the astronauts. When a

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    Rosetta Research Paper

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    On March 2 2004, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Rosetta spacecraft with the Philae lander on a 10 year trajectory towards the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko(67P). Comet 67P was not the planned destination for the Rosetta mission however, the mission was planned for comet Wirtanen(46P). However, due to the failure of the Hot Bird 7 launch, the mission had to be delayed until they determined the cause of the problem. The mission was set for a new comet, 67P. The Rosetta mission was deployed

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    In safe re-entry, there are various issues that need to be considered such as re-entry angle, heat build-up, high g-forces, ionisation black-out and landing on the ground. The Apollo spacecraft returning from the moon, the US space shuttle and the Russian Vostok spacecraft are examples of spacecraft which have successfully addressed these issues, and have safely returned to Earth. Re-entry of spacecraft begins with astronauts usually retro firing their spacecraft’s rockets where they position rockets

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    Solar Space Essay

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    the mission is scheduled for window between July 31-August 19 2018. The launch will take off at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida with the Vehicle named Delta IV-Heavy with Upper Stage. During the mission, the max launch characteristic energy by the spacecraft will be 154 km2/s2. At the closest approach, the speed of the spacecraft will be 700,000 kph withstanding a temperature approaching 1377oC at the front of Parker Solar Probe’s solar shield faces. To withstand this temperature, the spacecraft

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    Phases of the Moon Ancient people watched the Moon each night and learned to predict its phases and movements. The first person to correctly explain the phases of the Moon is unknown. The time, Pythagoras wrote in 600 B.C., the ancient Greeks knew that the Moon revolves around the Earth and that it is spherical. Greeks knew that motion causes the monthly changes in the Moon’s appearance, they also knew the Moon’s distance from the Earth and had a good measurement of the Moon’s relative size. Our

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    The World Moon Project

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    World Moon Project-Essay #1 For the World Moon Project we were supposed to observe the moon on certain key dates. Each moon observation is in chronological order with the date and is recorded in military time. We observed the moon and recorded our Big 5 data. Our first key date was September 22nd. I recorded my Big 5 data at 1837 or 6:37 pm. The shape that I seen was a banana. It was on the right side from about 1 o'clock to about 5 o'clock. The direction that the moon was located at that time

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