...I chose to talk about Space Explorations: Apollo Missions. I chose this because landing on the moon was a wonderful thing we were able to accomplish and I do consider the crew to be a heros. They very easily could have died and I don’t know that a lot of people think about that they were willing to give their lives to be able to move Science forward. In the book “Apollo Moon Mission: The unsung heroes” it said “In 1961, President John F. Kennedy issued a challenge: the United States would land a man on the moon and return him safely to earth before the end of the decade. It seemed like an impossible task and one that the Russians--who had launched the first satellite and put the first man into earth's orbit--would surely perform before us....
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...February 2014 Rocket History and exploring the future My prewriting strategies I used were, research, and outline. My audience are teenagers and adults. My tone for this essay is being informative. My thesis is, although man has created many things, rockets are one of the greatest creations. My purpose for this essay is to educate people on the history of rockets, and I wanted to express why it is one of the greatest creations man has created. The horse and buggy were used to discover uncharted territories and now we are using rocket to explore the uncharted parts of space. This essay discusses the history of rocket fuel, past explorers of space, and the future opportunities in space. Although man has created many things, rockets are one of the greatest creations. Rocket fuel has changed drastically over many years, the first documented rocket was by the Chinese in the fourteenth century, and its fuel was black powder (“History of rockets- Spread of Rocket Technology”). This was the start of something big. Later in history, in the year 1261, Roger Bacon perfected the formula for the rocket; instead of just using gun powder he added saltpeter, carbon, and sulfur (“History of rockets- Spread of rocket technology”). By perfecting the formula he increased performance by staggering numbers. As people continued to experiment with rocket, a man named Robert Godard, invented a rocket that ran on liquid fuel, this was a big step for rocketry, his rocket only flew 41 feet...
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...engineered the surrender of 500 of his best rocket scientists and they were scooped up via Operation Paperclip, installed in Fort Bliss, Texas. Von Braun was the leader of the rocket mission in the United States for developing the V-2 rocket, the first ballistic missile ever made, which initiated a lot of the missions not only in the US but in the Soviet Union as well as ideas were exchanged. He later became the director of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. Here, he developed the Jupiter C rocket, used to launch America’s first satellite, as well as being heavily involved in the moon mission. Additionally, Braun became director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and chief of architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, which would boost Americans on their moon journey. His contributions to American research were massive and without them, the information he...
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...Apollo 13 Social student fair Right in the beginning of space programs to the Moon, Apollo 13 was the third American Apollo space program that had intended to land on the moon. Although it was the seventh manned mission. Real goal of that mission was to examine a region of the moon, a region that is difficult to get to. The astronauts survived the flight, but it was close. As in the bible says ( Psalm 8:3-4 ESV / When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?) as it says God cares for us Since the mission was a failure but in the same time it was a successful failure because of God's help. Training...
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...The Space Race involved launching satellites, suborbital and orbital human spaceflight around the Earth, and manned flights to the Moon. It first began with the Soviet Union’s launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite on October 4. 1957, and ended with the Apollo-Soyuz human spaceflight mission in July 1975. The Apollo-Soyuz project symbolized an easing in the relationship between the Soviet Union and the US. The Space Race was originally a missile-based arms race that occurred just after the end of the World War 2. The Space Race all began in Germany during the beginning of the 1930s and continued during World War II when Germany researched and built ballistic missiles. Starting in the early 1930s, German aerospace engineers experimented with liquid-fueled rockets hoping they would be capable of reaching high altitudes and going long distances. The head of the German Army's Ballistics Branch, Lieutenant Colonel Karl Emil Becker, created a team of engineers to figure out how to use rockets as long-range artillery in order to get around the Treaty of Versailles' ban on research and development of long-range cannons. At the end of the war, American, British, and Soviet scientific intelligence teams competed to capture Germany's rocket engineers as well as German rocket designs. Each of the Allies captured a share of the available members of the German rocket team, but the United States benefited the most with Operation Paperclip, recruiting von Braun and most of his engineering team, who...
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... one giant leap for mankind; a famous quote from the first person to land on the moon, Neil Armstrong. Sending a man on the moon was one of NASA's most historical moments ever accomplished. The undertaking of Apollo 11 exhibited the success of NASA's capabilities and gave scientists a better understanding of the moon. With NASA's work and determination, they ended the competition between American and the Soviet Union space race and brought all nations closer together. During World War II, missiles were used for mass destruction in enemy territory. Military technology was improved over time, therefore, missiles became bigger and powerful. The United States and the Soviet Union created some of the most powerful missiles in the war. After the war, the...
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...Were the moon landings real? There has been rumors that Neil armstrong landing on the moon was fake. That it was all filmed in a studio. Some people think it actually happened. But it’s up to you on what you think were they real or was the whole thing faked? This is what I believe… I believe that the moon landings were real. I think the whole thing happened. That NASA sent a man to the moon. Sure I have seen evidence to prove why it didn’t really happen but there is one piece of evidence I saw that changed my whole thought. Some evidence to prove the moon landings didn’t really happen is John F kennedy promised a man on the moon by the end of the 1960’s, and since we were in a race with the Soviet Union to get a man on the moon we wanted...
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...Running head: COLD 1 The Cold War Corwin Schneider HIS 104 Professor Patrick Williams June 19, 2012 COLD 2 The Cold War Keep your Finger Off the Button! The Cold War, how did these two countries get to this point in history? While the United States and USSR should have been more grown up and learned to work out their problems, who were the major players in the Cold War and how were the two sides involved in the space race, when did the Cold War start and end, and what were the two sides arguing over. The United States was in an intense war with the USSR for five decades. It started in 1945, shortly after Communist Leader Joseph Stalin learned of the first atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on Japan August 6, 1945. “The Cold War was a strategic struggle that developed after World War II between the United States with its allies and the Soviet Union with its allies” (Bentley, J., Ziegler, H., & Streets, H. 2008 pg. 638). But, this was not an ordinary war between the two, it was a Cold War. It had more attacks of words and propaganda competing which was the better country. One reason these two superpowers never had direct military action against each other was they both possessed Nuclear Weapons. The major powers in the Cold...
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...Soviet Socialist Republics. But it was also the culmination of the dreams of man for many millennia and the team who worked on the space programs was able to discover what so many of the people that came before and after them could only dream of. It was an endeavor that all of humanity was invested in at the time. It was a testament to the power of the human spirit and it showed how nothing was impossible if we persevered and strived to be better. The space race did not start as one would expect with the respective American and Soviet space agencies. But rather it began with the German V2 missile launches towards the end of World War 2. The V2 missile was designed by Wernher Von Braun a German scientist who had dreamed of traveling to the moon for many years; however this dream had to be secret as it was considered to be treasonous and not helpful to the German cause. Von Braun and many other amateur rocketeers were drafted into the German war machine in order to help build a super weapon and their base was Peenemünde. When the war was nearing its end the Third Reich unleashed its secret weapon, the V2 missile. It could hit anywhere within its target range and there would be no warning. When it hit, it caused scenes of mass destruction. The V2 missiles were to be Hitler’s ace in the hole. However by then it was far too late the war had already been lost with Soviets advancing from the East and the other Allies from the west and when the Allies discovered the German’s V2 missile...
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...The United States Space Program is a leading phenomenon that dazzles the world with their giant missiles that are launched into the air. Millions and millions of people gather around just to watch the giant rocket launch into the sky. Moon-port is the launchpad that holds these rockets and allows them to fly into the sky. It isn’t just scientists who make this dream a reality, its millions of people and businesses that supply the world for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, industrial plants, and other major businesses. The Moon-port film showed us how the space program started, but it’s just the beginning. Imagine. A man, in a rocket, flying to the moon. This was the space programs goals to accomplish. The video is taken place...
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...Space & Rocket Center is located in Huntsville, Alabama. The facility is one of the nation’s top science centers and is home to America’s Space Program. Huntsville, Alabama, is the birthplace of the US Space program and the Center is used as a location to help that story. More than 60 years ago, German Rocket scientists were moved to Huntsville following the end of World War Two. The US Army tagged their mission, “Operation Paperclip.” The Army used that name to describe more than 100 German scientists whose names were inside a folder. The materials were held together by a simple paperclip. The name stuck and became one of America’s greatest accomplishments as the Germans began working for the United States Army to develop missiles. At the end of World War Two, the Army allowed the German scientists to continue their work. Their dreams were not to create, build or deploy army rockets, but rather to create rockets that could go into space. In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower created the agency under the name The National Aeronautics and Space Act. The NASA mission, according to President Eisenhower, was to encourage peaceful applications in space science. As the program grew, President Kennedy challenged the nation to go the moon in the decade of the 1960’s. In Kennedy’s words, “We choose not to do this because it is easy but because it is hard.” NASA, using more than 20 billion dollars in federal funding, began building the Saturn V rocket to take man...
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...A Rocket to the Moon A boy band that inspired a lot of music lovers and a boy band that sings from the heart. A boy band that is remembered in every lyrics and a boy band that wrote songs, songs that touches the soul. A band that was once united, and now disbanded. A rocket to the moon, the band you’ll love the most. If you don’t want to be hunted by 3am thoughts, make sure you’ll never know this band. With their Alternative rock songs, pop rock song, indie rock songs, and pop punk songs, you’ll surely rape the repeat button of your music player. Lead by the vocalist Nick Santino, a handsome lad with spiky blonde hair, tattooed arms, killer smile and a to-die-for voice. Together with his band mates Justin Richards and Andrew Cook both playing drums, and Eric Halvorsen, their bass guitar player, A rocket to the moon received notoriety from many people, even from celebrities. The band is famous for their songs Baby Blue Eyes, Like We Used To, and Ever Enough. Their singles "Dakota" and "If Only They Knew" reached the record No. 21 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart. They also record acoustic versions of their songs which made people love them more. They appear on mall shows, they toured around the world, and they release albums that was idolized by netizens, and of course their very own fans. Sadly they were disband in the year 2013 right after the release of their full album “Wild and Free”. The announcement turned down a lot of their followers since they...
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...March 16, 1926, he launched a modern rocket that uses liquid fuel for the first time in the world. By 1935 he developed a rocket to fly at speeds of up to 800 kilometres per hour. Also by using rocket propulsion, he explored the high altitude, even the practicality of reaching the moon. It proved that the rocket would operate in a vacuum and that it didn’t need the air to push it. In 1929 in Auburn, Massachusetts, during in rocket flight, he captured scientific water. In 1932, New Mexico, he used vanes in the rocket motor blast for guidance and developed of gyro controls for rocket flight. The United States patented to multiplexing. He developed suitable pump for rocket fuel and finally from gyroscopic mechanism, he launched a rocket in 1937. Goddard supported Newton’s third law for his contribution. In 1919, Goddard wrote a scientific paper ‘How to reach the limit’ for describing his rocket. This article was published in the...
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...field of rocketry in both the basic theory and the design of rockets. In 1922, he submitted a physics dissertation while studying at the University of Heidelberg on this subject. This paper examined mathematically the possibility for a rocket to reach escape velocity and leave the Earth’s orbit. He also supported and explained the notion that rockets could be propelled in a vacuum, an idea which was contrary to most scientific opinion at the time. These pioneering ideas have formed the basis of our modern space program. His work mentioned the possible effect on an astronaut’s body of experiencing the g-forces required to escape the Earth’s gravitational pull. Finally, he discussed the further possibility of launching spacecraft into orbit, which has led to our modern widespread use of communication satellites. His original paper on rocket design, entitled “Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen”, was controversial and was widely rejected by the scientific community at the time. His work received greater support later, and he received the “Rep-Hirsch” prize in 1929, giving him $10,000, which he used to...
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...year, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can be befall life on a single plante. But i'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.” Stephen Hawking. The daily telegraph, October 16, 2001. Humankind will one day have to relocate from earth due to overpopulation and pollution but we still have a long way to conquer the stars. Humans had come a long way since we first landed in the moon but we still got a longer way to colonizing new planets. Space Exploration started after war world two when united states and soviet union created their missile...
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