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  • Army Space Programs Into Nasa
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    When the crew of Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969, Americans hailed the successful completion of the most audacious and complex technological undertaking of the 20th century: landing humans on the moon and returning them safely to earth. Just over eight years before, when President John F. Kennedy proposed the manned lunar landing as the focus of the United States's pace program, only one American - Lt. Comdr. Alan B. Shepard, Jr. - had been into space, on a suborbit...
  • Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
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    People arguing over shuttle costs on the net are usually arguing from different assumptions and do not describe their assumptions clearly, making it impossible to reach agreement. To demonstrate the difficulty, here are a range of flight cost figures differing by a factor of 35 and some of the assumptions behind them (all use 1992 constant dollars). $45 million - marginal cost of adding or removing one flight from the manifest in a given year. $414 million - NASA's average cost / flight, assumin...
  • Space And Its Unknown To Orbit Earth
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    In our history many great things have happened. Weave been inventing and exploring things since day one. Many of these things that we discovered or invented we thought would never be possible in earth's life time. But they exists now, today, they are used by almost every human being and there are many more incredible and unmanageable things to come and aid us in every day life. One of the most interesting things to me would fall under exploration and inventing. You are about to venture in to the...
  • Project Mercury Except Deke Slayton
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    Project Mercury Project Mercury, the first manned U.S. space project, became an official NASA program on October 7, 1958. The Mercury Program was given two main but broad objectives: 1. to investigate man's ability to survive and perform in the space environment and 2. to develop basic space technology and hardware for manned space flight programs to come. NASA also had to find astronauts to fly the spacecraft. In 1959 NASA asked the U.S. military for a list of their members who met certain qual...
  • Man And The Aerospace Industry Into Space
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    INTRODUCTION Human beings have always been fascinated by flight. Cave people carved, sculpted, and painted winged creatures soaring through the sky. Greek mythology tells of the winged horse Pegasus, ancient Persian myths tell of winged bulls that guarded the royal halls, and a 4000 year old Chinese story, from the Annals of The Bamboo Books, describes how the Emperor Shun escaped from captivity by "donning the work-clothes of a bird". People struggled for centuries to make human flight a realit...
  • Physical Challenges And Costs Of Space Exploration
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    Space Exploration The urge to explore the unknown is part of human nature and has led to many of the most profound changes in our standard of living. It enriches our spirits and reminds us of the great potential of achievement within us all. The drive to develop the next frontier has also been a fundamental part of the heritage of the people of the world. The physical challenges and costs of space exploration also serve as a natural catalyst for peaceful, international cooperation, improving the...
  • Office Of Space Flight
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    National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA The era of space exploration began in 1957, when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik, into Earth orbit October 4, 1957. The Soviet also were the first to launch a manned spacecraft when Yuri Ga garni, made one orbit around the Earth in 1961. Americans were electrified by the news. A year later the Soviets issued an ultimatum that the Western Allies evacuate Berlin. Next came a proposal that Berlin become a free city. Th...
  • Marshal Project
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    the History of the Hubble In the year of 1958 Nasa was Born. 1962 recomendations made by National academy of science to construct large telescope as long range goal. 1972 two small satellites launched spawned interest for funding larger project. 1973 team of nasa scientists start work designing. Marshal space flight center in Huntsville Alabama was scheduled for design development and construction. Goddard Space flight center in Beltsville md chosen to construct vital instruments and the ground ...

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