Figures” of Theodore Melfi conveys in a warm‚ lively‚ and funny way. The story of a team of African American women mathematicians who served an important role in NASA during the early years of the US space program. It is a story of brilliance‚ and struggle. Set in 1960s‚ Hampton‚ Virginia‚ during the space race. Katherine Johnson (Taraji Henson)‚ Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer)‚ and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae) were three African American women who worked at NASA in the early 60s. They worked behind
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If you ask me what subjects I interested in‚ I will answer science. If you ask me what kind of science do I like‚ I will answer space‚ if you ask me to tell you about space event I like most‚ I will tell you about a voyage‚ of a man made first step on the moon‚ which we can not fail to mention when we talk about twenty century‚ the century of innovation. The title is Neil Amstrong and his moon voyage. . Previously‚ people often wondered if the light they saw on the sky every night is an alien lamp
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Apollo 13 directed by Ron Howard is the story of the real space mission that took place in 1969. The three astronauts had always dreamed of landing on the moon but not long after the astronauts launched into space did they realize that the task would be near impossible due to an explosion of an oxygen tank. Getting home safe became their next mission. A character in this film from whom I learned something is Gene Kranz played by Ed Harris. I learned that thinking calmly helps you and people around
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the US would not be what it is today. I believe that all of these events were huge impacts on the US and our society today. If I had to pick a most important event‚ I would say that the space program would have to be it. Who knows where we would be today if we would have not been able to discover the moon and space or if Russia would have been the first to land someone on the
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things that occur on planet earth that cannot be explained or are hard to explain. One of these occurrences is the incident at Roswell. When strange debris was found near Roswell‚ New Mexico‚ people started believing it was from an extraterrestrial space craft. There are many questions left unanswered and many theories of what really happened started developing. Theories that stated that the debris was just from a weather balloon‚ or was part of a project the army was doing‚ or that it was part of
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“What were the political‚ economic‚ technological and social impacts of the Moon landing?” Throughout human existence there have been many achievements that immediately and overwhelmingly changed the course of history. Other events are considered to have shaped the world over the longer-term using historical perspective. The Apollo missions and the moon landing in July 1969 changed and shaped the world excessively. The impact was significant and the iconic image of Armstrong’s first steps is sustained
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America had recovered from World War II‚ when Kennedy gave his famous inaugural speech to the American people. During this time a new conflict known as the Cold War began. Kennedy’s presidential term was during the space race against rivals the Soviet Union and the United States. The space race was a competition that was
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In the near century since its discovery‚ Pluto’s mysterious nature has illustrated how our understanding of the universe continues to evolve with each new scientific breakthrough. Orbiting around 3.6 billion miles from the sun and with a circumference of only 4‚494 miles it seems scientists were lucky to have found it’s existence at all‚ let alone as early as they did. Pluto serves no significance to the everyman‚ but to the astrologists studying it the dwarf planet has proven itself to be a wealth
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how big the universe is. The letter is very welcoming. And it even covers a few political and pop culture points our alien friends‚ or enemies‚ may enjoy. NASA not happy about the letter to aliens on Proxima b; will the space agency make contact too? Sending unsolicited space mail to aliens on a distant planet similar to ours may be frowned upon at NASA. However‚ one scientist did just that. He
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are stunned. That fact makes a 19-year-old Richard Branson decided that he will one day experience the wonder of space ("Virgin galactic overview‚" 2009). For several years‚ interest in the potential of space tourism has been steadily increasing among engineers‚ scientist‚ entrepreneurs‚ and general public. The attractiveness and exclusivity of traveling into space that drives space tourism into the multi-billion dollars business since this is guide by largely demands and perception of the future
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