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... -author, or editor of more than thirty books and over three hundred articles. MITCHELL R. SHARPE has been closely identified with the national space program for more than twenty years and ...

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Most stars would look very similar to the Sun. The pointy shapes that we draw are not the way stars look up close. The spikes that appear in photographs of stars are artifacts caused by the telescope or camera used to take the picture. ---- Answer provided by Dirk Terrell, Ph.D. Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer ...

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... stay with the program much longer after Skylab, but he was a real sharp, sharp guy. Steve was real sharp in the electrical power world and eventually in the ECLSS world, I think ... say, he may interpret it incorrectly, not because he’s—he’s just a real sharp guy. He typically tried to get an understanding of even the systems guys’ stuff so ... room consoles, and the contractors operated backroom consoles. There were some real sharp guys back there. We had some sharp guys. I mean, each one of them had something to bring to ...

... any previously examined close-up. "We are making headway in solving the mystery of Mount Sharp," said Curiosity Project Scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California ... been a series of lakes." Curiosity currently is investigating the lowest sedimentary layers of Mount Sharp, a section of rock 500 feet (150 meters) high dubbed the Murray formation. Rivers carried ...

... to produce north-south winds. The rover is just north of a mountain called Mount Sharp. If air movement up and down the mountain's slope governed wind direction, dominant winds ... depression in between the two slopes, rather than up and down the slope of Mount Sharp," said Claire Newman, a REMS investigator at Ashima Research in Pasadena. "If we don't see a change in wind patterns as Curiosity heads up the slope of Mount Sharp -- that would be a surprise." REMS monitoring of air pressure has tracked both a seasonal ...

... down something that he thought up in five minutes, because I’m certainly not as sharp as Buzz in that area. Orbital mechanics was not my forte to start with. But ... you the other day. It was Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that he went to. A very sharp individual. Then he went to work for—what’s the center at Cleveland? It’s Glenn now, but it was Lewis Research Center then. He was so sharp he got selected early in the program when NASA became from the old NACA National ...

... Raumschiffahrt by Frank H. Winter - Part 8 Chapter 8 ---- '''Footnotes''' note 1 Ordway and Sharpe, ''The Rocket Team'', p. 98. note 2 Letter, Walter R. Dornberger to Andrew ... .) National Archives, RG 330, Foreign Scientist Case Files, Box 396, “Kurt Hanisch” file; Ordway and Sharpe, ''The Rocket Team'', p. 119; J.D. Hunley, ''U.S. Space-Launch Vehicle Technology'' (University ...

... Viking spacecraft 1 Viking 1 spacecraft touched down on Mars and began to relay "those sharp, stark pictures to earth." Hardly had reporters began asking explanations from scientists "who looked stunned ... 's mechanical arm scooped its first sample of the Mars surface 28 July, leaving a sharp-edged trench clearly visible in a picture transmitted afterward by the unmanned lander. The 3-m arm, a tube about 38 mm in diameter, ended in a sharp-edged scoop that could dig into the surface with a force of about 13 kg ...

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