The history of India’s interests in space science is as early as 1960s when a Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) was formed by theDepartment of Atomic Energy. Subsequently the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) was set up to develop space technology and its application to various national tasks. The development of India’s space technology and programme dates back to 1980 when it successfully launched its own satellite Rohini – 1 from Sriharikota Island. The nation then
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Week 4 Compare/Contrast “2001: A Space Odyssey & “The Sentinel” Science Fiction In the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”‚ it deals with a series of encounters between humans and a mysterious black monoliths that is apparently effecting human evolution. In the short story “The Sentinel”‚ the story basically reverses the roll of the black monoliths. The narrator in the short story speculates that the mysterious aliens who left the monolith behind may have used mechanisms belonging “to a technology
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Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity was written by Griselda Pollock in 1988‚ and later published in The Expanding Disclosure in 1992. Griselda Pollock is an art historian‚ and writes this article for fellow art historians. This is an article written to show the different approaches to femininity in the late 19th century‚ mainly dealing with the field of art. This article shows how during this time period there were women artists‚ but due to the gendered ruled ideas attached to art history‚ these
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Skies The Limit? The exploration of space VS The issues on earth. Aileen Johnson English Composition Introduction We live in a world where there are environmental issues that range from global warming to air pollution. Environmental scientists dedicated themselves by putting years and years into finding a long-term solution for these issues. The effects of these issues can potentially be damaging in the next couple of decades so people live I fear of what is to come
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Space exploration is crucial to new discoveries in science‚ that will benefit society. Space exploration has changed the world around us by providing an inside look worlds around us‚ even in our own solar system. The ability to travel through space has given us a new perspective on our solar system‚ by being able to view how nature works outside of our own planet. Earth is a unique planet. So unique that our technology today has not discovered any other planets or satellites that could sustain human
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The Space Race Have you ever wondered what it’s like being in space. You would probably have fun maybe you also want to land on the moon too. Well in 1958 the NASA (space program) was created. The U.S.A against the U.S.S.R (soviet union) for the space race or technical advance was created. This space race was created in the Cold War in about 1957 and the Cold War was started in 1947 and lasted o 1991. Who could get to the moon fastest? Who could build better materials than the other team?
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SPACE EXPLORATION & TECHNOLOGY Traveling through space and exploring the unknown has been an unquenched curiosity of mankind’s since the beginning of time. Students of all ages‚ in schools throughout the world‚ are becoming more involved in researching space. They are following the current progress of space exploration‚ and discovering the learning possibilities that come from traveling through the last frontier. "Space Exploration" is an interdisciplinary unit combining multiple disciplines
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How important is performance space to performance? The question of performance space ’s importance in conveying meaning and guiding audience response is complicated. First we must define the term "performance space". In a broader sense‚ it can refer to venue‚ which in the case of site-specific artists such as Shunt‚ means performance space is indeed central to the construction and context of meaning. Venues also come with their own sets of conventions and coding‚ which may alter the reading of
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Newtonian Absolute Space When Newton proposed his axioms describing fundamental laws of physics‚ he insisted on the necessity of absolute space to a completed theory of mechanics. Absolute space can be best described as not-relationally-dependent space. Newton purports that there is something more to space than just being a vessel to conceptualize positional differences between specific bodies; he claims that there is some objective truth to space -- that spatial differences are not dependent
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FREE SPACE OPTICS NEXT GENERATION COMMUNICATION PRESENTED BY V.LAXMANA VENKATA KUMAR 09PA1A04B6 ABSTRACT: FSO may sound new and experimental but in fact it predates optical fiber and has its roots in wartime efforts to develop secure communication systems that did not require
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