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Lot Of Money Carbon Dioxide
877 wordsMars has been a place NASA and other organizations have wanted to conquer after the Apollo missions. It has been several decades since anyone has sent anything to Mars. Lately though Mars has been the main focus to space engineers and scientists. This is because in 1989 President George Bush called for a manned mission to Mars (Sky & Telescope). This will cost a lot of money and effort. In 1969 people were celebrating the first manned mission to the moon. People were in awe of their own ability....
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Space Shuttle Make Decisions
975 wordsWhat is groupthink? There is a simple definition for it, but is it truly that simple? The term groupthink refers to the inclination of group members to have the same opinions and beliefs; it frequently leads to mistakes. It often occurs without an individual being aware of it. Conflict is considered to be a harmful element when related to groups, but conflict is good when considering groupthink because it helps to eliminate the existence of a groupthink. The explanation sounds simple enough, but...
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Radio Telescopes Radio Signals
1,153 wordsSETI, or the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, is the scientific search for signals, primarily radio signals, from outer space. It is based on the belief that we will hear extraterrestrials before we see. The organizations work has been going on ever since the 1960 s. The main tools the scientists / searchers use are radio telescopes and listening equipment. To understand this organization, one must first look at its rocky history, and its unique discoveries. The Beginning of SETI is re...
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Made It Clear Government Sponsored
1,182 wordsThe mysterious phenomenon of UFO sightings seems worthy of serious scientific research. This is due to theories found within the field of ufology, past reported sightings, and credible information given out by the government. Ufologists should also be aware of past examples that have been successful from the astronomical community. Bernard Haisch is an astrophysicist, scientific editor of the Astrophysical Journal, and editor of the Journal of Scientific Exploration. The Journal of Scientific Ex...
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Star Traveling To The Millennium
1,884 wordsNASA's goal of faster, better, cheaper has been the motivation for them to develop new mission concepts, and to validate never-before-used technologies in space. The new technologies, if proven to work, will revolutionize space exploration in the next century. According to NASA's New Millennium Program home page, last updated on September 16, 1999, NASA's current project of Deep Space 1 demonstrates some of their most exotic technologies. One of the most impressive is the testing of an ion engin...
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Piece Of Foam Pound Piece Of Foam Shuttle
1,022 wordsMr. Hill said a spacewalk repair was not likely but that his engineers and analysts were looking closely at the issue and that he could not rule one out. Gap fillers, as their name implies, fill the gaps that NASA leaves between some shuttle tiles to allow for expansion and contraction of the shuttle's body from the extremes of heat and cold that it is exposed to. The fillers themselves are heat resistant, and are made of alumina-borosilicate fiber. Having gap filler poke its way out up from bet...
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Living Organisms Magnetic Field
910 wordsCould icy moons of giant planets, such as Europa and Callisto, provide possible habitable environments for living organisms? Until such task is actually accomplished, scientists and researchers all over our world will forever be trying to find life in other parts of both our galaxy, and the Universe. Such fascination with extraterrestrial life has been brought to somewhat of a peak with the recent findings on two of Jupiter's so-called Galilean Satellites: Europa and Callisto. The findings from ...
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University Of Maryland Greenhouse Gases
1,135 wordsVegetation Canopy LIDAR Mission: Possible Since the beginning of time, human activities that have been altering the Earth and its atmosphere have caused the earth to warm by about one degree Fahrenheit since the late 19 th century. Whether these activities were essential or superfluous, the effects on and surrounding Earth are multitudinous. For example, a warmer Earth could lead to the spread of diseases, melting polar ice caps, receding glaciers, and a change in precipitation patterns (Gay 21)...
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Space Program Nasa Problems
703 wordsSpace: The Final Folly In 1947 the world had dreams of green aliens with big eyes. In 1969 the world turned on their televisions to see man take their first steps on the surface of the moon, since then it has been all down hill from there with NASA and the space program itself even now in 1998. The space program is no longer on the minds of the American people, whether it is from lack of interest or the many blunders, both reasons are understandable. My perception of the space program is that at...
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Washington D C Ozone Hole
1,498 wordsThe reappearance of the ozone hole over Antarctica has been a hot topic for scientist around the world. A few of these scientists are the atmospheric physicist Richard D. Mc Peters and several of his colleagues at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt. The ozone hole showed up earlier than expected, and it was wider and thinner. It appeared in mid-August, about two weeks ahead of schedule, and on September 19 reached the record size of 10. 5 million square miles, more than three and ...
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