Space and space travel

If nasa was formed around that time and you never heard anything of it before then, what was going on? Who invented the rocket and why all of a sudden during the late 50s’- 60′s was everyone so involved in space travel?
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Copyright (c) 2008 Thomas Husnik Space traveling is a phenomenon that is discovered recently for the individuals wishing to travel to space for personal pleasure. Till now, the opportunities for traveling to space are limited only to the Space Agency of Russia that provides the required transport. Reaching the International Space Station,...
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Which of the following is not a problem for interstellar space travel? A. The possible bombardment of cosmic rays that would damage spacecraft. B. The building of a spacecraft capable of escaping from the gravitational field of the solar system. C. The enormous distances involved in getting to different places. D. The enormous time...
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I need to understand the basic concept of the difference between atmospheric travel and space travel. It may include vehicle design, forces, time frames, acceleration, etc. . Helpful topics might be: Lift, Thrust, Drag, Gravity are terms you should investigate Newton’s Theory of Relativity Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Robert Goddard Sputnik 1 Laika Explorer 1 NASA...
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Are we limited to our own planet? Or will we ever live on other worlds or moons? And if we do ever succeed at space travel, how many centuries or generations will it take us? What kind of people will be likely to leave Earth? This is a science-fiction question, so use imagination realistically,...
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The Bible says that there was a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it, Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind after the sudden appearance of chariot of fire and horses of fire. The heavens are not...
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The Bible says that there was a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it, Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind after the sudden appearance of chariot of fire and horses of fire. The heavens are not...
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Earth, our mother planet, is being attacked everyday by about 25 tons of dust & sand-sized particles. An asteroid, the size of a small car, hits Earths atmosphere about once in every year. Fortunately she knows how to defend herself. When that small car-sized asteroid enters her atmosphere, she burns the asteroid up before...
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A celestial body orbiting another celestial body of larger size is a satellite. An artificial satellite is a manufactured object or vehicle intended to orbit the earth, the moon, or another celestial body. Since October 4th, 1957 humanity is capable of putting artificial satellites in orbit around the earth. The Russians were the first...
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Ever since the beginning of time, mankind has been fascinated with wonders of space. Before the mid-1900s, all mankind could do was gaze at the stars from Earth & wonder what it would be like to go into space. Man would look through telescopes & make theories on how the universe worked. Even with...
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In 1952, the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) announced the International Geophysical Year (IGY), a time span between July 1957 to December 1958. This period was to be filled with numerous scientific experiments & studies about Earth. It was in 1955 that the Soviet Union surprised the world by announcing the plan to...
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