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Understanding Space TravelTRANSCRIPT
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Technology in Space
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Who doesn’t love a good conspiracy theory? Americans are particularly susceptible to them, and, why not? We seem to have been the victims of so many conspiracies – Pearl Harbor, JFK, RFK, MLK, Watergate, IranContra, the Bush Jr. elections, 9/11, Wall Street, entrenched bureaucracy, to mention just a few.
But to doubt that American astronauts in the Apollo program landed on the Moon seems downright un-American. To not believe in the lunar landings is a slap in the face to science and the American space program, and to the thousands of people who assisted in the lunar landings.
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MLAS Launches
NASA successfully demonstrated an
alternate system for future astronauts. The launch of the Max Launch Abort System, or MLAS,
took place on July 8, 2009, at 6:26 a.m. at NASA's Wallops
Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va.
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The crescent Earth rises above the lunar horizon in this spectacular photograph taken from the Apollo 17 spacecraft in lunar orbit during final lunar landing
mission in the Apollo program.
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In the darkened interior of NASA's
SOFIA flying
observatory, NASA
and German scientists study the results of system
tests on the telescope assembly,
including the gyroscope, system software and wide-field and fine-field
imagers.
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Hybrid Wing Body Model
NASA's Glenn Research Center dedicated a model of the hybrid wing body, a futuristic aircraft concept, on July 8, 2009. The center is testing parts of a new propulsion system that can be embedded in the wing of the airplane. Developed by NASA and Boeing, the plane is called a hybrid wing body because its wings and fuselage blend together in a triangular shape.
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Unlike Earth the moon does not have air, food and water, so it would take a lot of effort for humans to live and work there, wrote Raina Huang, a student at Bexley High School in Columbus, Ohio, and finalist in the second annual NASA Lunar Art Contest.
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