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History Around The Russian Launch Of Sputnik
2,086 wordsThe launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik on October 4 th, 1957 had a profound influence on both American and Russian culture, ranging from the inception of the space race to the mass hysteria the ensued in America afterwards. Sputnik was the product of massive amounts of money and research poured into a missile and satellite program by both the American and Soviet governments. Even though The soviet union might have been the first country to put a satellite into space, this does not necessari...
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Sir Isaac Newton Galileo Galilei
4,910 wordsIt was a cold, crisp, and damp morning on the Florida Space Coast as the space shuttle Challenger raced through the sky at speeds approaching mach 2 at an altitude of 104, 000 feet when something went perilously wrong. All of America watched, including the family members of the seven doomed crew members, as Challenger exploded into an expansive ball of fire, smoke and steam. An Oh... no! came as the crew? s final utterance from the shuttle as the orbiter broke-up. As the reality of what she was ...
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External Tank Launch Pad
1,208 wordsIt was a clear sunny day at Kennedy Space Center in Florida with a temperature of 36 degrees which was 15 degrees cooler than NASA has ever sent a shuttle to space. Aboard the space shuttle was a civilian school teacher which made the Challenger such a publicized event. After being delayed five times from bad weather the Challenger was schuyler to be launched at 11: 38 AM Eastern Standard time on January 28, 1986. Seventy-three seconds after leaving the launch pad 39 B the Challenger would explo...
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Air Force Base United States Senate
3,073 wordsJohn Herschel Glenn Jr. was born on July 18, 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio. He was named after his father John Glenn Sr. John Glenn Sr. had fought in France during World War I, and his hearing had been impaired as a result of the fighting. After the war he started a plumbing business and managed to make a comfortable living for himself and his family. John s mother Clara Sport Glenn wanted a large family, two of her children died while they were infants. After John was born, the family adopted a young...
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Rocket Boosters External Tank
2,824 wordsRogers, William P. , et al Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident United States Government Printing Office June 6, 1986 256 pages The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, chaired by former Secretary of State William P. Rogers, investigated the circumstances surrounding the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger shortly after liftoff on January 28, 1986. The Commission was established in February, 1986, pursuant to Executive ...
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Rocket Boosters Launch Pad
4,848 words7 December 1999 The Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster The morning was clear, bright, and cold on January 28 th, 1986, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The skies were clear allowing the sun to shine over the launch area at the Kennedy Space Center and attempt to increase its freezing temperature. On launch pad 39 B icicles dangled from the launch tower, pad structure, and other launch equipment (Lewis 127) as the space shuttle Challenger stood in a powerful vertical silhouette against the morning ligh...
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