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Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Spacecraft

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has pioneered fully reusable launch, propellant delivery, rendezvous and planetary landing systems designed to lower spaceflight costs while expanding human exploration beyond low Earth orbit. Their flagship products are the Falcon rocket family and Dragon spacecraft. Dragons have delivered cargo and supplies to the International Space Station and performed NASA astronaut […]

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Spacecraft Company Looking to Commercialize Space

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SpaceX is creating a global satellite internet network it hopes will connect every person on Earth. Additionally, SpaceX plans to play an instrumental role in commercializing space – with plans of transporting both people and cargo to Mars by 2024. Elon Musk, who founded both PayPal and Amazon, established SpaceX to develop a reusable rocket

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JoJo Characters – Apollo 11 – Kennedy Space Center

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Kennedy Space Center (KSC), situated at Cape Canaveral in Florida, plays an integral part of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean as one of its six parts and provides Enrico Pucci with an opportunity to attain heaven. This film employs techniques of direct cinema to give audiences the feeling that they are an observer on an

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Why is the Sky Blue If Space is Black?

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Looking up at the night sky or at pictures of space can make you believe it is all black – so why is the sky blue? Answering that question involves understanding how light interacts with particles in the atmosphere. Air molecules are smaller than visible light wavelengths, so they scatter it more intensely via Rayleigh

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Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes

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Christa McAuliffe was America’s first schoolteacher to travel into space. On Jan. 28, 1986, as the space shuttle Challenger lifted off for orbit 73 seconds later, its crew cheered loudly when it suddenly disintegrated and exploded in fiery destruction. This tragedy fundamentally altered NASA’s space operations; it ended plans to send civilians as passengers into

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How is the Sky Blue if Space is Black?

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As sunlight enters Earth’s atmosphere, its light is dispersed through gases and particles in the atmosphere by various gases and particles; light toward the blue end of the spectrum is scattered more widely than red end light, giving Earth its signature blue hue. As writers, it is our responsibility to pay close attention to reader

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Apollo 11 65mm Is A Must-See For Space Enthusiasts

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As captivating as Miller’s IMAX footage is, what truly distinguishes Apollo 11 is its audio archives. Ranging from back-room chitchat to the haunting Moog-infused score, Apollo 11 highlights just how many technicians and flight control teams were necessary to send three brave men on an ambitious journey around our moon and back safely. As in

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Space Mission Simulations in Southern Utah

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Southern Utah’s lunar-esque desert landscape seems tailor-made for Hollywood blockbusters, while also serving as an arena where some of the brightest minds in space simulation try out ideas about what life may be like on Mars. Near Hanksville lies the Mars Desert Research Station. This remote plot of land serves as an analogue of Mars

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Why is the Sky Blue When Space is Black?

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No one can resist a beautiful day with blue skies! These lovely views result from sunlight passing through Earth’s atmosphere and being scattered by oxygen and nitrogen molecules present therein, particularly those with shorter wavelengths, like blue. As light with shorter wavelengths like blue has more chance to get scattered than other colors due to

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