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.
The engineers of NASA found that the foam shedding and debris strikes could not be avoided and solved, even though the previous design of space shuttle required that the external tank was not to shed foam or other debris. However, this situation was not account for security threat and regarded as the acceptable risk. Thus, the launch was given the go-head. Due to the broken left wing which caused the damage of Space Shuttle thermal protection system, hot gases penetrated and destroyed the internal wing structure which led to the disintegrate of the shuttle immediately over the area of south Dallas. Ignore the Feedback Control Even though the similar situation happened in the prior mission (in the 13th and 16th mission of Columbia, the foam went undetected as well), the administration department of NASA were getting used to those situation which did not cause the serious damage to the shuttle that led to the disaster of the 28th mission of Columbia.
In the Star Wars series, there is a lot of space battles. If the space battles were realistic, you wouldn't hear anything at all. The reason is because space is a vacuum and sound requires matter to propagate. In space you would be able to hear everything inside your cockpit but everything outside you wouldn't hear a thing, it will be only silence. Because it is a fictional movie, sound is in there for attract the audience.
CASE STUDY – SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER DISASTER On January 28th 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger had launched but then broke apart just 73 seconds into its flight, resulting in the death of all seven of its crew members – one of these being Christa McAuliffe -the first ever member of the Teacher in Space Project. This report deals with why the launch should never have happened. The launch was originally planned to take place on the January 22nd, but delays and bad weather pushed the launch date back to January 28th. On that day, the weather was forecasted to be extremely low, almost at the minimal temperature for launch. This prompted the managers and engineers of Morton Thiokol to have a teleconference with NASA engineers on the 27th January to discuss whether or not the launch should be suspended.
Unfortunately, the Soviets were the first to launch a satellite in to space on October 4, 1957 which caused fear to erupt in the United States (notes pg 12). Eisenhower then started NASA and challenged them to send the first man into space (notes pg 12). The United States failed to send the first man into space and Kennedy challenged America to send the first man to the moon (notes pg 12). Success! On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 had been launched in to space.
In the other part of the world, doctors found some “materials” that are unlike anything on Earth. In fact, those material substances are not known to this planet… Have you ever heard of the Bermuda Triangle? It was actually said that a lot of people were lost and most of them were never found. They say that aliens inhabited the Bermuda Triangle long time ago. In fact, in 1942, shortly before coming in the West Indies, Christopher Colombus recorded in his ship’s log that he and his crew had observed that a large ball of fire had fallen to the sea and their compass behaved erratically.
The ! <br>survivors' offspring, if they are not mutated in some way, will have no schools to attend. They will grow <br>up like primitive people. The world is forever changed. <br> The Strategic Initiative would benefit the U.S. because it would deter nuclear attacks on the U.S. <br>The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) is a research and development program designed to create an <br>effective space-based defense against nuclear missile attack, and may provoke other nations to put the <br>same system into space above their own skies.
September 4, 2013 A Loss of Interest Charles Krauthammer expresses his disappointment for American’s loos of interest in moon exploration in his Washington Post article, “The Moon We Left Behind”. This essay is very informative, and fairly persuasive; Krauthammer keeps it entertaining by adding his own opinions and insights. Krauthammer’s main idea is how America has essentially abandoned the Earth’s largest satellite since our original obsession with it, brought on by President Kennedy. If we ever hope to discover any new information about the moon, or our solar system, we will have to send someone into space once again. Krauthammer sets an informative and persuasive tone by his use of numbers and dates.
Apollo 13 was the spacecraft that demonstrated the dangers of people working in space. The three astronauts on board, Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert were faced with the possibility of becoming stranded in space. The entire crew was used to dealing with in-flight problems because of the flight test experience they received before they became astronauts. This experience would come in handy on Apollo 13. Rookie flyer Jack Swigert, in the beginning was the backup command module pilot.
The smaller dome is for storage, whilst the larger dome comprises three large rooms for living space. Gravity is virtually zero, necessitating the use of magnetic shoes. As a precaution against possible insanity caused by the sheer isolation and loneliness of his 5 year stint, Duncan has decided to take a Martian woman along with him. As well as ‘company – of a sort’ he wants someone to cook and deal with the domestic chores. The story opens with him reflecting on his new ‘purchase’ - Lellie, a 20 year old Martian female who lacks any real formal education.