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    After the Cold War, The United States and the Soviet Union we’re still in competition. Instead of competing in war, they competed head-to-head in the race to the moon. Tom Wolfe wrote a nonfiction book about the stories of the test pilots and their struggle to become astronauts. During the “space race” there were major advances in technology that we continue to use and improve to this day. Wolf had many different viewpoints on the technology in the 1960’s and how it was affecting our lives then

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    Sniperbob gets into a fight. Sniperbob gets a terrible injury but what he did to Lord Reaper was far much worse. *Flashback to 3 weeks earlier* Spacemonkey had just found a new planet. Spacemonkey “ Sniperbob we should go check out this planet out,” Sniperbob” ok but I have to make a pit stop at Pluto.” Spacemonkey got everything ready for them to leave to Mars but little do they know what’s on that planet. Once they arrived they stayed in a Martel. They waited until night to go to a bar and met

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    Benefits Of NASA

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    NASA Is Uses Too Much Money Has NASA really benefited any of us when $3 billion of taxpayer money? The annual of budget of NASA is $18.724 billion and that being used on golf-club testing and studies on how humans will react to meeting aliens. While these unnecessary projects are being held, millions of people are dying of diseases. That money could be used on books for classrooms, medicine for the sick, and food for the hungry. Space can hold many answers for many different problems, but if the

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    Nasa’s R5 aka Valkyrie is a humanoid robot that was designed and built in a 15 month period by Johnson space center in the 2013 DARPA robotics challenge. The name Valkyrie comes from norse mythology. It is also designed to be strong, and rugged. Power/Battery. Valkyrie can be runned from a battery or a wall. The dual voltage battery can run the robot for an hour. Arms. Each upper arm consists of 4 series elastic rotary actuators and when combined with the forearm has 7 joints. The arm has a

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    Sarah watches the space station countdown. As the spaceship takes off, Sarah has a thought, “Should people on Earth really colonize Mars?” Yes, people on Earth should colonize Mars. People from Earth should colonize Mars because Mars could become an excellent place to live, the astronauts that travel to Mars will always be remembered, and scientists would be able to more effectively study Mars and people can learn from their mistakes on Earth. Earth is overpopulated and Mars has the potential

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    The Martian is an action-packed, thought-provoking film that mixes science fiction and humor. The realistic nature of the film makes it even more meaningful and thought-inspiring, engaging the audience throughout the journey. When the film was first released in October 2015, people thought it would be another rendition of Gravity, but its witty humor surprised everyone. The film is an adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel The Martian, published in 2011. The film is directed by Ridley Scott and produced

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    the world to a journey through time and space. The series, Cosmos, were both introduced by each astronomer on a ocean clift and gave us a brief explanation of space (cosmos). Sagan explains on top of a huge ocean cliff that the cosmos are “beyond human understanding” and that “our life depends on how well we understand the universe and where we stand within it”. Tyson opens his cosmos series illustrating that “in order to take a trip through space we need our imagination”. Sagan and Tyson both introduced

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    and labs in the USA have them all. Scientists should send people to Mars. Water on Mars is highly possible and is key for life on Mars.Scientists have found ways to repurpose water so the humans living on mars can drink purified and edible water.With storage in pods on mars it will be possible to keep humans on Mars alive.Water on Mars is not edible on Mars but with new technology it is possible to reignite the water so it can be edible.The water on Mars is usually in craters or underground. Water

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    greatly through the science area and all its achievements. A prime example of an achievement was the underwater sea lab, and an online article about it tells us “Sealab, experimental program sponsored by the U. S Navy intended to determine whether humans could live and work successfully for long periods of time

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    According to the official Mars-One website it’s a one way trip to mars and if you change your mind at any time, it won’t matter because no one will come to get you. There is nothing on mars for communication with earth so the only human interaction you can get is with the three other people that land alongside you. So if you don’t like the people you land with you may just go insane. If you are a very social reliant person then mars is not the place for you. Some people think this

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