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    outer space and new essentials that can help the human kind. NASA can also help people with things from everyday life to things that can help us live in unknown places. They plan to take the out space flights to a whole new level. The research done in NASA also helps our nation be one of the highest ranking science nations in the world. “NASA conducts its work in four principal organizations, called mission directorates: [Aeronautics, Human Exploration and Operations, Science, and Space Technology]

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    and depicted NASA as a genius (Frederick). Most people would say that the operations of NASA are exhilarating, but in my opinion, I am left flabbergasted! Could the skills used to put a man on the moon be duplicated to improve the state of life for humans? Can’t they decide to invent robots that will play an essential role to curb the rising insecurities? NASA commitments and objectives just boil my blood. Personally, I am not moved by NASA creativity and innovation because I would want to see better

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    While public opinion during a national crisis often oversimplifies threats, NASA found that this oversimplification worked in its favor during the Cold War. Some viewed the launching of the Soviet Union’s rocket Sputnik as a declaration of power in space, even though the rocket orbited Earth for only two months. Additionally, many people believed that the launching of the satellite meant that the Soviet Union could “just as easily send a barrage of atomic weapons toward the United States” (“Creation

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    Mars, one of Earth's neighboring planets, has been studied since the beginning of mankind. More recently, however, the United States of America has been considering the human colonization of Mars. A manned mission to Mars is something humans need to pursue, regardless the price. A human colonization on Mars could provide the research to create another civilization outside of Earth, could show us what might happen to Earth in the future, and could provide itself as a space station/planet-to-planet

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    Introduction: Currently, it is very difficult to send humans and spacecraft anywhere in space, let alone out of our own solar system. The cost and risk involved in sending people and objects into space have not stopped humans from achieving impressive missions over the past 70 years. We have sent humans 248,655 miles deep into space and space craft 11.7 billion miles from the Earth. Although we are making strides in furthering our space exploration, there are still steps being taken to travel further

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    “E.T. phone home”: this quote has been very popular for decades now (Verhoeven). Ever since Steven Spielberg directed the movie E.T. in the 1980’s, this movie caused an up-rise about extra-terrestrial life. Because of this movie, people started to realize other life might exist beyond our own planet. In addition, this caused xenophobes to start rising around the world. With many so-called encounters with aliens in Earth’s atmosphere for many millenniums now, does this serve as proof aliens exist

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    Eisenstein or others, assess how effective the film soundtrack is in either Forbidden Planet, Points in Space or 2001. Stanley Kubrick’s legendary film “2001 : A Space Odyssey” (1968) is an epic of space exploration and meditation on the possibility of extraterrestrial influence on the process of human evolution. The film is set in the near future at a time when the moon is colonised and space travel, at least around the planetary system, is quite usual. Kubrick said “2001 aspired not to the condition

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    The Space Race Essay

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    trouble with regular satellite launches. This launch not only further emphasized the Soviet Union's superiority to the United States, but it also provided scientists with the first data of a living organism in space and foreshadowed the future in human space travel. By the anniversary of Sputnik 1, it seemed like the United States were catching up to the Soviet Union in terms of satellites launched. The US had now launched three Explorers and one Vanguard while the USSR had launched three Sputniks

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    Mars, the red planet, is one amazing planet in our solar system. With advancing technology and experiments, putting boots on Mars will come in the near future. There are still many issues that require us to solve for any human mission to Mars. Mars is unique because of all the similarities it has with Earth and how it may have once harbored life. There is also strong indication that water also flowed through the vast landscape of Mars in the past and that water may still be trapped deep below the

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    The V2 Rocket

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    the desert,” meaning that instead of the chance at having your data blown out overseas and lost, was pretty much lost completely. As the crash sites for rockets could for the most part be directed. Overall, this shows that even before space exploration was even a concept, people were still using war time technology, I.E rockets, in order to send things into our atmosphere for study

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