* Frederick L. Ashworth flew with Sweeney in Bockscar and was responsible for arming the bomb. * The primary target was the city of Kokura. Nagasaki was the secondary target. * Bockscar’s reserve fuel tank was not pumping fuel correctly so the plane could not make use of the extra 600 gallons. * About 40,000 people died in this mission.
The first launch of the space shuttle Columbia was on April 12, 1981. It accomplished 24 flights. On January 28 1986, the Challenger exploded in mid-air, just after 73 seconds of flight. NASA stayed two years without returning to space. This kept spaceships grounded until NASA engineers identified the problem and declared ths shuttles safe to return to
The Space shuttle Challenger was NASA’s second vehicle to be put into service however; on January 28, 1986 it would make its final departure from Kennedy Space Center. Seventy three seconds into flight two O-rings located in the right rocket booster disintegrated causing flames to escape their designated area and dislodge the
Apollo It all began in 1959 when thoughts of space travel were considered to be near impossible. We were in a war with the Soviet Union, but this war however, did not include gunfights and mass killing. It was a race to see who could develop the best technology and advance the furthest in space travel. They were many stages to the space race, but my favorite was the Apollo missions. The Apollo program was conceived in 1960, but it wasn’t until May 25, 1961 that Kennedy had given his speech to announce his support for the program.
In October 1962, an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. President Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union and Cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles. He met in secret with his advisors for several days to discuss the problem. After many long and difficult meetings, Kennedy decided to place a naval blockade, or a ring of ships, around Cuba. The aim of this "quarantine," as he called it was to prevent the Soviets from bringing in more military supplies.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command is prepared to send out fighter jets, which can debilitate or shoot down an airplane. Some skeptics believe NORAD commanded defense systems stood down because of their lack of presence during attacks. My beliefs of this conspiracy are true. The jets did not manage to respond until after the attack was over. It took more then an hour for them to respond.
They did this so they could take control of the RAF (Royal Air Force) this was a tactic used by the Germans but failed. The British won. A story by Geoffrey Welham when he flew a spitfire for the first time fighting against thee Germans:- “I did about 158 hours of training for the army. I was taken straight out of training and in the fount line flying a spitfire against the Germans. It concentrated the mind a little bit.
The U-2 spy plane was a technological masterpiece created by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The plane could fly up to 70,000 feet and was built with unforeseen photographing capabilities. The CIA claimed the plane could photograph the headlines on Soviet newspapers. The first flights began in 1956. The CIA also convinced President Eisenhower that the soviets did not possess the technology capable of shooting these planes down.
The Americans believed that the USSR attacked as a way to end the Cold War and start a Hot War. The Soviet Government produced numerous explanations as to why the KAL 007 had been shot down. From the beginning of the flight it was known that Captain Chun was flying off course, the flight was slowly drifting north and had soon entered USSR airspace. The Soviet military noticed the activity of the aircraft and saw it as suspicious and had no choice but to shoot it down as it did not obey radio orders from the base. More ideas were being tossed around as both the Americans and the Soviets continued to make
After this he joined the Bucharest Military School where he graduated as an artillery officer. Fond of technical problems, especially of flight technics, in 1905 he built a 'missile-airplane' in Bucharest for the Army. Then he went up to Berlin to attend studies at Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg, after which he followed with studies at the Science University in Liege, part of the Electrical Institute in Montefiore. He registered at the Superior Aeronautical School in Paris where he graduated in 1909. H. Coanda began his engineering practice in aerodynamics where he is only now becoming become world reknowed.