They had the first satellite, the first manmade object to orbit the sun, the first manmade object to impact the moon, the first man and women in space, they had the first ever space walk, the first manmade object to impact venus, and the first satellite to orbit the moon. However somehow we caught up and were first to put man on the moon on June 20th 1969. With Apollo 11 landing and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon we felt a bit more secure about the cold war now that we were in charge of space. This actually came in handy later when we said that we could destroy all Soviet missiles with a program named SDI or star
Solar System Scavenger Hunt – submit to the dropbox once you have completed the quiz. You must submit the form to get credit for the quiz. Websites to help you get started. You may use others. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/ http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=SolarSys&Display=Moons http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Display=Moons http://nasa.gov use search window to search for topics http://www.go-astronomy.com/planets/planet-moons.htm http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/ http://nineplanets.org/ |What is the hottest planet in our solar system?
Frank Poole - The other astronaut who is awake for the entire journey to Saturn. Poole is mechanically skilled and is the one who makes extra-vehicular trips, one of which ultimately results in his death. Dr. Heywood Floyd - A senior government official. Floyd is sent to the moon to investigate TMA. He is an effective bureaucrat and a caring family man.
Landsat and Apollo: The Forgotten Legacy Paul D. Lowman, Jr. Abstract This paper demonstrates that Landsat was fundamentally a result of the Apollo Program. The U.S. Geological Survey's EROS proposal of 1966, which eventually led to Landsat, was stimulated largely by the demonstrated utility of 1100 orbital photographs from the Gemini missions, Gemini being solely preparation for Apollo. In addition, Earth-oriented remote sensing research sponsored by NASA in the mid-1960s, primarily support for Apollo lunar missions, included studies of Earth resource applications as well. Finally, the extensive series of airborne remote sensing studies carried out by the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center was Apollo-derived in that the primary mission of
Direct motion and retrograde motion both occur with Mars, direct motion is when the planet seems to be going forward, and retrograde is when it seems to be going backwards. Many astronomers have noticed this and have tried to come to a solution as to why it occurs. Eudoxus of Cnidus Eudoxus of Cnidus came up with the first theory as to why retrograde motion occurs. He thought that there was a system of spheres, a small sphere in the middle on one axis and a larger sphere on another axis; both of the axis’ are offset. The axis of the smaller middle sphere is embedded in the outer sphere so they share the same motion.
Henri Oung Date due: April 28th, 2009 Knowledge and Conspiracy Theories Date submitted: April 28th, 2009 Term paper: Moon-landing Word count: 1110 We always strive to achieve something. That achievement might be a dream or something even bigger. One of the dreams that Americans have is to actually get off the planet earth and see the outer universe. But one of the first things they wanted to accomplish is to actually land on the moon. It was first succeeded by the soviets in 1966, but the Americans did try to land a few years before that, but failed.
When we landed on the moon it created a rehabilitated sense of patriotism in Americans, and that is what Krauthammer is striving for. That feeling of “wonder” and “glory” that we Americans have left behind in the last few decades. He is pushing us to realize we should not be content with mediocrity and we should strive as a country to learn everything we can about any subject possible, and open grand new possibilities for ourselves. Some of these possibilities may be a space station on the moon. It may be impractical , but most everyone loves seeing new exotic views, and nothing can be more bizarre than taking an outside look at your home planet.
During the Kennedy administration, saline water conversion was a high priority technology goal-"go to the moon and make the desert bloom" was the slogan. Supported by federal and state funding, a number of researchers quickly advanced the science and technology of sea water conversion, but UCLA made a significant breakthrough in 1959 and became the first to demonstrate a practical process known as reverse osmosis (RO). At that time, Samuel Yuster and two of his students, Sidney Loeb and Srinivasa Sourirajan, produced a functional synthetic RO membrane from cellulose
When the Romans studied Greek astronomy, they gave the planets their own gods' names: Mercury (for Hermes, God of Commerce and Thievery), Venus (Aphrodite, Goddess of Wisdom), Mars (Ares, God of War), Jupiter (Zeus, King of Gods), Saturn (Cronus, father of Zeus), Neptune (Poseidom , God of Ocean), Pluto (Hades, God of Underworld) and Uranus (Rhea, Goddess of life). The planet we live is the earth. Our neighboring planets are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto and Uranus. Mercury Our solar system consists of the sun and nine planets. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.
An astronomer who wants to send a rocket into space uses calculus to work out how much fuel the rocket needs to accelerate to the correct velocity. These are just some examples of the ways in which calculus and astronomy work together. How to Bring Your Rocket Up to Speed Space travel is extremely important to astronomy. Space-based telescopes and probes, which collect huge amounts of information about the Solar System and beyond, are launched into space using powerful rockets. The rockets accelerate the spacecraft until it is going fast enough to leave the Earth's gravitational pull and set off on its journey.