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    Mars Orbiter Mission

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    the technologies required for design‚ planning‚ management and operations of an interplanetary mission. The Mars Orbiter Mission probe lifted-off from the First Launch Pad at Sriharikota near Chennai‚ using a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket C25 at 09:08 UTC (2:38 PM IST) on 5 November 2013. The launch window was approximately 20 days long and started on 28 October 2013.[5] The Mars Orbiter Mission is India’s first interplanetary mission. If successful‚ ISRO would become the fourth space

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    EJECTION SEAT

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    Seat‚ Test Reports: Volumes I-IV‚” RD & PE Zvezda Design Bureau‚ Tomilio‚ Russia‚ 1993. Wheeler‚ Craig M.; Niedzielski‚ Paul; Barnette‚ Bill; McDonald‚ A. Blair; Fourth Generation Escape System Technology Demonstration Pintle Nozzle Controllable Propulsion System‚ Paper presented at SAFE Symposium‚ 1998.

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    Physics Lab

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    and final velocities of an air powered projectile. Hypothesis: If the angle of the rocket is launched at 45 degrees than the distance and velocity will maximize. Materials: Rocket launching platform Rocket launcher Rocket body Air pump Safety goggles Rubber washer Nose cone 40‚ 45‚ 50‚ 55 and 60 angle wooden blocks Measuring wheel Procedure: 1. The rocket was assembled by the rocket launcher and screwed to the launching platform using two screws/washer/wing-nut set. 2

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    First Rocketeer Essay

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    The heated stem went up through pipes into the sphere and then escaped from two L-shaped openings on opposite sides of it. This propelled the sphere in a rotating motion. No one knows for sure when the first “real rockets” were invented. It is often speculated that the first rockets were mistakes‚ caused by the first century Chinese. They used a precursor to gunpowder that contained sulfur‚ saltpeter‚ and charcoal dust. This mixture was filled into tubes of bamboo and thrown into fires during religious

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    October Sky

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    October Sky Marion Eady The film October Sky (1999)‚ directed by Joe Johnson is based on a true story of Homer Hickman ( a coal miners son) who is inspired to build a rocket after the Russian launch of the first artificial satellite (Sputnik) into orbit. The film definitely focuses on the course theme of being a social outcast. This is explored in the film through three people‚ John Hickman (Homers Father)‚ the town of Coalwood and Mr.Turner (Homers principle). Firstly‚ John Hickman

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    of which was a Russian named Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. He established the basics of rocket science. He made a rocket equation which determines the velocity of flight. That equation is still used today in modern rockets. Along with that‚ he also wrote the first theoretical description of an artificial satellite. The Germans also made a rocket called the A-4 rocket. It was first launched in 1942 and was the first rocket to reach space. It was also able to carry 2‚200 lbs of weight. Even though it was

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    Achieving your Dream

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    first satellite in space. He begins thinking about rockets and how there is a scientific and mathematical explanation to why they fly and fall in a certain way. This is the begining of his long and brutal journey. To begin his journey‚ he gathers all his friends and “nerds” to help him launch his first rocket. They launch their first rocket and was unfortunately unsuccessful. Hickam and his friends decide to not give up so they launch their second rocket not much later and its not a success but its an

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    invented two of the most important rockets in the history of rockets‚ the V-2 and the Saturn V. Both of these rockets were very important to the development and furtherment of Missiles and Space Travel. Von Braun was born in 1912 in the Posen Province of then Germany. However after World War One this province was integrated into Poland. Early in his life‚ he stumbled on the book Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen by Hermann Oberth. Hermann Oberth writes: “The rockets... can be built so powerfully that

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    Types of Aircraft Engines

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    gets thinner‚ lesser air enters the cylinder thereby chocking their efficiency to burn fuel. Rocket Engines Rocket engines produce the most power in the class of aircraft engines. They need so much of power in order to push the aircraft outside the gravitational pull of the earth. Rocket engines use a mixture of oxygen and a very combustible material to produce the thrust. The uniqueness of the rocket engine is that it carries its own oxygen to ignite its fuel. This is very different from the working

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    Rockets for Me

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    Eva Elizondo English 99 July 2013 Final Draft Narrative Essay Silly Boys Girls Can Ride Rockets Too It was a warm summer day‚ as we were slaving away at Genie Industries. My son and I were both employed for Genie. It was just about time for the second shift to relieve us. A meaning my son should be walking in fairly soon. Just as I looked up‚ in trots my son‚ through hi bay three. Although the sun was shining brightly through the doors‚ which made his appear to be in a silhouette form‚

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