It is in this context that the U.S. felt Soviet Union as a threat, since improved and increased production of space technology meant that there is also a corresponding increase in the capacity of the country to defend itself militarily. This threat Continue Reading...
If the satellite had successfully entered orbit, this would have put the United States more than a year ahead of the Soviets in the endeavor, which added In fact, this was not the only rocket and satellite project that many United States scientists Continue Reading...
Baby Boom, Soviet launch of Sputnik into space and Assassination of JFK The Baby Boom played into the Consumer Culture of the 1950s because there was literally a population explosion in post-War America. People wanted to settle down, have families, a Continue Reading...
S. military officials and scientists to find out what kind of technology the Russians must have and why the U.S. did not have superior technology (Krock, "G.O.P. On Defensive on Issue of Security," 1957). The press certainly wasn't afraid to expose Continue Reading...
Sometimes, the choice of what to explore has been sensationalistic, preferring to pursue exciting new frontiers instead of areas of space where collecting more data would allow us to make useful determinations. This is more of an administrative issu Continue Reading...
Three test launches in September failed miserably, but by October, the crew believed they were ready to test (Green and Lomask, 41). However, on October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union shocked the United States and the world by successfully launching Spu Continue Reading...
American history that have changed the arc and path of society and culture forever. A few recent examples would include the emergence of the World Wide Web in the 1990's, social media more recently as well as the general progress made with the autom Continue Reading...
President Johnson became even more fearful of a communist take-over. In 1964, when two American ships were attacked by the North Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin "the American Senate gave Johnson the power to give armed support to assist any countr Continue Reading...
Space Physiology Love Of Extremes: Space Physiology About the effect of gravity on the human being in space Early milestones in space exploration and space physiology Gravity The effects of microgravity on human physiology Physiological change Continue Reading...
Gemini Throughout history, the idea of modern space travel has captured the human imagination. This began when early astronomers first started looking up at the sky and wondered about the universe. By the 1950s, these ideas became more realistic wi Continue Reading...
They could do it time and time again with success. The first electric car was used on the moon during the Apollo 14 (Endeavor and Falcon) mission (Kennedy Space Center). Meanwhile in Russia While the space program in the United States was busy bec Continue Reading...
Space Program When the Soviets successfully launched Sputnik I, the first ever artificial satellite, in orbit on October 4, 1957, the event took the Americans and the entire western world by surprise. Sputnik I was just a 2-foot sphere with nothing Continue Reading...
Chronology of the Internet's Development When the internet search titan Google stated a "mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," this vision statement encapsulated both the scope of the company's s Continue Reading...
History Of Communication Timeline TIMELINE: HISTORY OF COMMUNICATION (with special reference to the development of the motorcycle) 35,000 BCE. First paleolithing "petroglyphs" and written symbols. This is important in the history of communication Continue Reading...
Because of the widespread stigma against homosexuality in the United States and worldwide, medical research was thwarted and the disease became virtually synonymous with homosexuality. It would take the death of one of America's most beloved, and s Continue Reading...
This lead was accomplished through a partnership nearly a half-century old among government, industry and academia. I member of that partnership was the National Science Foundation (NSF). As Strawn noted, early on, scientists and engineers at Americ Continue Reading...
These were Homer's two main goals while he was growing up in Coalwood. Although the rockets Valentine wished to see had yet to reach perfection, the fact that they were worthy of her interest convinced Homer that what he was doing was right, even wh Continue Reading...
For Homer, the radio was the voice of the outside world, and all information, long before television ever existed. Homer's Republican father was furious. He was a zealous anti-communist, and this meant that the Russians were 'ahead' in their fight f Continue Reading...
European Security and Defense Policy: Development and Prospects United States Attitudes toward European Defense The Background to the Dilemma: In December of 1991, the Soviet Union - Ronald Reagan's "Evil Empire" - ceased to exist. Communism was Continue Reading...
Unmanned spacecrafts have long been a dream of human civilization. The allure of the unknown combined with mans quest for knowledge has created rapid innovations within the unamend spacecraft field. Its history has spanned many decades, with large le Continue Reading...
Contemporary Political Issue: The War on Terror Introduction On September 20th, 2001, President George W. Bush proposed the new Office of Homeland Security to help confront a new threat to national security in the first step of what became the War Continue Reading...
Client server systems are a group of inter-related subsystems which collaborate together to provide a specific solution or service. This computing model structures diverse and distributed applications, which separates tasks between the providers (ser Continue Reading...
Sikorsky (1189 to 1972) Igor I. Sikorsky was the designer of the first 'four engine fixed wing aircraft' and he also designed the first successful functioning helicopter. This helicopter was of the type that is generally used in the present era. In Continue Reading...
Sky -- a Great Movie with Profound Values Back in the late Fifties, more than ten years after the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were in a struggle called the "Cold War." The Soviets were trying hard to extend their inf Continue Reading...
Platforms The development of the GPS system was almost entirely a series of chance events, yet these chance events occurred in a situation and amongst individuals that were able to see them for what they were and combine them into the GPS system ess Continue Reading...
On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the moon. The American success gave the "entire free world a huge and badly needed boost." President Kennedy used the space race to boost the idea of the "free world" over Co Continue Reading...
In an unprecedented move, Khrushchev denounced many of Stalin's excesses and set about changing Soviet policy towards the developing world. This change, some call it flexibility, was the branch the Soviets offered to developing countries, like Cuba. Continue Reading...
And that includes me." It is with a Wild Sheep Chase, his third novel published in 1982, that Murakami begins to delve more into the surrealistic, dream world of the opposite sex. A girl whose unusually beautiful and super-sensitive ears confer ext Continue Reading...
Turner resented the boy's efforts, and accused the members of Homer's Rocket Club of starting a bomb club, much the same way Homer's father's friend Doc warned the boys that they would blow themselves to kingdom come. Mr. Turner only begins to look Continue Reading...
The National Defense Education Act was the outcome of a bill that was present before the Sputnik scare. While the categorical aid as described in the 1958 and 1965 legislation allowed some room for negotiations on the state-church issue, it yet fac Continue Reading...
Space Debris and its Impact on Space ExplorationA lot has changed since the launch of Sputnik in 1957, and space exploration is now an industry in which participants from all over the world have a vested interest. Whether the area for discussion is l Continue Reading...
Case Study: NASA Collaborative Transformation AssignmentIntroductionIn recent years, there has been a growing movement towards collaborative transformation in public administration. This approach emphasizes the need for public servants to work togeth Continue Reading...
Significant Historical Questions and AnswersEssay 1In The Manhattan Project, Jeff Hughes claims that the development of atomic weapons in World War II did not create \\\"Big Science,\\\" but simply accelerated trends in scientific research and develo Continue Reading...
The author of this brief response took a look at four chapters from a particular book. What follows in this report is a direct and measured response to those chapters. The readings themselves had a good variety and variance to them. They all involve Continue Reading...
Trustworthy is something that can be trusted because it does not set out to deceive, lie, or manipulate. It is forthcoming, honest, and transparent. Trustworthiness is a quality that indicates openness and commitment to the truth. News agency is som Continue Reading...
Frontier technology is innovative and new technology that breaks ground on new directions in what individuals and organizations are able to achieve. The background of frontier technology consists of advancements in development going back all the way Continue Reading...
