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| First Moon Landing 1969 |
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The video of the very first moon landing of the
apollo 11 mission in 1969! Neil Armstrong was the
first man to set foot on the moon with his now
legenday words "One small step for man, a giant
leap for mankind." This is a truly amazing video
and it was in 1969!!! If you think about it, you
have orders of magnitude more processing power in
your mobile phone than they did in the whole space
craft!! Incredible!
Tags : first moon landing 1969 neil armstrong buzz aldrin apollo 11 space earth travel |
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Durée : 104 s |
| Colonizing The Moon |
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The Vision for Space Exploration is the United
States space policy announced on January 14, 2004
by U.S. President George W. Bush. It is seen as a
response to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster,
the state of human spaceflight at NASA, and a way
to regain public enthusiasm for space exploration.
The Vision calls for the space program to:
Complete the International Space Station by 2010
Retire the Space Shuttle by 2010
Develop the Orion spacecraft (formerly known as
the Crew Exploration Vehicle) by 2008, and conduct
its first human spaceflight mission by 2014
Develop Shuttle Derived Launch Vehicles
Explore the Moon with robotic spacecraft missions
by 2008 and crewed missions by 2020
Explore Mars and other destinations with robotic
and crewed missions
When the Vision was announced in January 2004, the
U.S. Congress and the scientific community gave it
a mix of positive and negative reviews. For
example, Rep. Dave Weldon (R-Fla.) said, "I think
this is the best thing that has happened to the
space program in decades," while physicist and
outspoken manned spaceflight opponent Robert L.
Park said that robotic spacecraft "are doing so
well it's going to be hard to justify sending a
human."
Others, such as the Mars Society have argued that
it makes more sense to avoid going back to the
Moon and instead focus on going to Mars first.
In a position paper issued by the National Space
Society (NSS), a return to the Moon should be
considered a high space program priority, in order
to begin development of the knowledge and
identification of the industries unique to the
Moon. The NSS believes that the Moon may be a
repository of the history and possible future of
our planet, and that the six Apollo landings only
scratched the surface of that treasure.
According to NSS, the Moon's far side, permanently
shielded from the noisy Earth, is an ideal site
for future radio astronomy. Unique products may be
producible in the nearly limitless extreme vacuum
of the lunar surface, and the Moon's remoteness is
the ultimate isolation for biologically hazardous
experiments.
Lunar resources include most if not all raw
materials available on Earth. The Moon can serve
as a proving ground for a wide range of space
operations and processes, including developments
toward In-Situ Resource Utilization or "living off
the land" (i.e., self-sufficiency) for permanent
human outposts. This has various benefits.
Initial return missions as recently proposed by
the U.S. President and NASA can be done through
space operations using the existing launch
infrastructure and assets developed by the shuttle
and International Space Station programs, plus
existing expendable launch vehicles, with a
minimum of new research and development programs.
The lessons learned from international cooperation
during ISS construction and operations can be
improved upon and extended to human missions to
the Moon, Mars and elsewhere.
Initial missions could place scientific equipment
on the Moon and return samples from areas never
explored, such as the polar regions. Extent of
water and other volatiles important to lunar
industrialization could be determined. As future
reusable launch systems begin operations, reducing
cost and enabling higher flight rates, Earth-Moon
traffic can become routine. With humans on the
Moon again, NASA's space activities would take on
new vigor and public interest.
Throughout much of 2004, it was unclear whether
the U.S. Congress would be willing to approve and
fund the Vision for Space Exploration. However, in
November 2004, Congress passed an omnibus spending
bill which gave NASA the $16.2 billion that
President Bush had sought to kick-start the
Vision. According to then-NASA chief Sean O'Keefe,
that spending bill "was as strong an endorsement
[of the space exploration vision] as any of us
could have imagined." In 2005, Congress passed
S.1281, the NASA Authorization act of 2005, which
explicitly endorses the Vision.
The current NASA Administrator, Michael Griffin,
who took office in April 2005, is a big supporter
of the Vision, but has also modified it somewhat,
saying that he wants to reduce the four year gap
between the retirement of the Space Shuttle and
the first manned mission of the Crew Exploration
Vehicle.
Tags : Colonizing Moon Lunar Colony Base |
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Affichage : 182066
Durée : 599 s |
| How to moon walk like Michael Jackson |
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http://www.videojug.com - The moon walk is one of
the most famous dance moves of all time. Done
properly the moonwalk can't fail to impress, dance
guru Anthony King shows us how to moon walk like
Michael Jackson.
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-moon-walk
Tags : moonwalk michael jackson Anthony King |
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Affichage : 2649059
Durée : 132 s |
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