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You know it is morning on the Moon when the Sun peeks over the horizon, just like on Earth. Unlike the Earth, there's no atmosphere to diffuse the light, so it ...

... additional planet pulling it off course—and Pluto is too small to affect Neptune's orbit anyway. So the search was successful even though the observations that led to the ...

... easier to inflate the modules and dock them together to form a larger station. It's not that there is no gravity in space. In fact, at 240 miles, at lower ...

... vision for America's, or the world's, future in space?" Parts II, III and IV of this chapter summarize many of the children's responses, and Part V is the author's overview. '''II ... -break destination, a major business enterprise, a space Las Vegas of the future, and the world's 1 tourist attraction. With casinos, basketball courts, golf courses, rock climbing walls, gravity parks, swimming ... interesting hobby or project, it's unethical to concentrate on what's happening outside this world when there is so much that still needs to be fixed inside this world. With space money chalked up ...

... projects like that. Then the Navy is one of the more traditional organizations in the world. It’s hard to get new ideas there. For instance, we did studies with ships. The ... where we launched after the target vehicle and caught them at Australia, halfway around the world. That’s not a practical operational thing. You can do it. So it went through. The ... something technically different, rather than just working, boring holes in the sky and that. That’s when I got into this aircraft business, aircraft engineering. We worked on the development of the ...

... . Although Pluto sometimes gets closer to the Sun than Neptune, when it's close to the Sun it is high above Neptune's orbit, so it doesn't come very close. Also, Pluto and Neptune orbit in-synch: Pluto orbits the sun exactly twice for every three orbits of Neptune. This means that when Pluto comes close to Neptune's orbit, Neptune is always somewhere else in its orbit. ---- Answer provided by ...

... fleet and Boeing were competing with Airbus, the European aircraft consortium. When Airbus won the contract Boeing's main motivation for keeping De Havilland operational was removed. They immediately ... no Commonwealth space program. However, today British and Canadian engineers produce some of the world's best satellite technology, all launched on rockets built elsewhere. With the British space ...

... )''' Meanwhile, the Hawker 1127, which could have been built at Avro and is ''still'' the world's only successful vertical take-off fighter, would instead be built under license in the USA ... in 1959, even by Diefenbaker. During his face-off with Crawford Gordon when challenged about the impact to Canada's aerospace production capacity, Diefenbaker later stated, ''"I could agree with Gordon that ...

... the workings of the American space program. Dryden was considered to be one of the world's top aeronautics experts, and in 1954 he had chaired a hearing between the Canadian National ... stated ''"I was even reviled for having ordered the completed Arrow prototypes reduced to scrap when I had no knowledge whatsoever of this action."'' Possible interpretations of this statement are limited ...

... top-notch interceptors with which to defend itself. ref 2 But at the exact moment when Pearkes was discarding his fighters and committing Canada to missiles he seems to have ... philosophy to which Canada has recently been committed, that the major contributors to the free world's missile development programs are, almost without exception, active in astronautics.'' ''"It is barely possible that ...

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