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Cold War Space Race
1,371 words... d to the USSR. Now, the cold war had established a permanent space race. The U. S. Army's attempt to launch America's first satellite into orbit failed in a launch pad explosion. Two months after the Soviet Union's successful launch of Sputnik, this failure further emphasized America's lag behind the Soviet Union in the space race. Having already lost the race to launch the world's first artificial satellite to the Soviet Union, the United States accelerated its plan to develop an unmanned M...
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Space Exploration Space Station
1,355 wordsIntroduction to Professional Engineering The Mechanics of Space Presented By: Piotr Jan Czerwinski 0373805 Engineering Year 1 November 8 th, 2004 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. 0 Abstract The Mechanics of Space The Mechanics of Space: Introduction The Mechanics of Space: Main Body The Mechanics of Space: Conclusion Work Cited Abstract Aeronautics has allowed mankind to understand the concept and surrounding of the universe. From ancient times, there have been discoveries made by Egyptians, Incas and many ...
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Hubble Space Telescope Soviet Union
1,112 wordsPerhaps there should have been a cold war. Without it, many of the things that we use everyday would not be in existence. There would be no global communications, but most importantly there would have been no space-race. The war between the Soviet Union and the United States was one with virtually no casualties. There were many technological advances in a feud between two countries. However, there were some failures as well. Some Americans gave their lives for the sake of social movement, not to...
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Advanced Research Projects Agency Soviet Union
552 wordsSputnik, name of the first of several artificial satellites launched by the Soviet Union from 1957 to 1961. The goals of the Sputnik program included studying the earths upper atmosphere, observing animal survival in space flight, and testing Soviet rocket technology. The launch of the unmanned Sputnik 1 and of Sputnik 2, which carried a dog, spurred the United States to invest more money and resources into its fledgling space program, initiating a race between the two nations to land a person o...
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Central Intelligence Agency Vice President
2,493 wordsStructure of the Executive Branch The United States is a large and complex country that is full of a diversity of citizens. It has millions of square miles of land with fifty states and several outlying territories, including more than a thousand islands scattered throughout the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea. All the citizens of the Unites States have been governed in an organized way for more than two hundred years. The federal government is separated into three branches: the legislative, exe...
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