Nate #34

Name

Neil Armstrong

Employer

He was employed for many jobs such as American astronaut, test pilot, university professor, and United States Naval Aviator.

Training

Deke Slayton called Armstrong on September 13, 1962 and asked if he was interested in joining the astronaut corps as part of what the press dubbed “the New Nine“. Without hesitation, Armstrong said yes. The selections were kept secret until three days later, although newspaper reports had been circulating since the middle of summer that year that he would be selected as the “first civilian astronaut”

Country of residence

America

Past missions

The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon.

Future mission’s.

Retired astronaut

Reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong#Astronaut_selection_and_early_training

Phoenix Mars Lander, Mission

Objectives of the mission.

There are two objectives of this mission and they are
1. To study the geologic history of water, the key to unlocking the story of past climate change.

2. To search for evidence of a habitable zone that may exist in the ice-soil boundary, the “biological paydirt.”

Mission launch including spacecraft

Phoenix was launched on 4 August 2007, at 5:26:34 a.m. EDT. The launch was nominal with no significant anomalies. The launch took place during a launch window extending from 3 August 2007 to 24 August 2007. Due to the small launch window the rescheduled launch of the Dawn mission (originally planned for 7 July) had to stand down and was launched after Phoenix in September.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory made adjustments to the orbits of three satellites around Mars to be in the right place on May 25, 2008 to observe Phoenix as it entered the atmosphere and to monitor it up to one minute after landing. This information will allow for better design for future Landers.

Currents events in the mission

NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander scraped to icy soil in the “Wonderland” area on Thursday, June 26, confirming that surface soil, subsurface soil and icy soil can be sampled at a single trench.
Phoenix scientists are now assured they have a complete soil-layer profile in Wonderland’s “Snow White” extended trench.

Reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_mission

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20080627.html

Movie Review of the 1997 film ‘‘Contact’’

Rating: 3.5 stars
One of the few really entertaining and intellectually engaging science fiction-dramas of the decade, this box-office hit from director Robert Zemeckis is also surprisingly emotional. A believable basic premise, solid character development, and an absorbing foray into the real-life political and social ramifications of a major scientific discovery keep the film bristling with energy; so do some kinetic special effects sequences not limited just to space flight, but which also include the digital insertion of President Bill Clinton into the proceedings. All of these elements effectively combine to make for what amounts to a thinking person’s thrill ride. Only the vacant and oddly unengaged performance of Matthew McConaughey, playing what is typically the supportive, challenging female role, is a misfire, though it may not be the actor’s fault. In a nutshell, McConaughey is called upon to play a sexy philosopher with wounded pride, a good ol’ boy drawl, and a tendency to Bible-thump, who is somehow not too right wing and ends up in a powerful government post under a liberal president. Clearly, his is the film’s most troubling character and could have used a little re-imagining. Still, McConaughey plays only a small supporting role that is the one distraction in an otherwise enjoyable and amazingly credible picture. It’s truly a surprise that Contact (1997) works so well, based as it is on a novel by the late, great Carl Sagan, famed for his skepticism about interstellar travel and alien life forms. Maybe it takes a doubter to create a truly convincing and plausible story about such credibility-challenging subjects. Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
http://www.starpulse.com/Movies/Contact/Reviews/

Jill Tarter contribution to the SETI program.

Dr. Jill Cornell Tarter recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to the field of exobiology, and in particular to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Dr. Tarter earned a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of California at Berkeley. Her major field of study was theoretical high-energy astrophysics. Dr. Tarter joined the SETI Program at NASA’s Ames Research Center and later became Principal Investigator for the SETI Institute in Mountain View, CA. She served as Project Scientist for NASA’s SETI program, the High Resolution Microwave Survey, and has conducted numerous observational programs at radio observatories worldwide.

Dr. Jill Cornell Tarter

THEORIES OF THE UNIVERSE

There are many theories in our world today of how actually this universe was created. Well the list of theories can go on forever but the theory that I strongly believe in may not be believed in by many scientist but to me i feel that it had really happened. The theory goes by Our God had created all living things meaning every single human, evert tree in a forest, and every insect and creature….

here are some other theories of how they had believed in how the world was created……….

The Bouncing Universe

In the 1960’s, a physicist named John Wheeler developed the bouncing universe theory.   The theory’s premise involved having a universe come into being with a bug bang, expand for a while, and then implode at a certain point in time.  Upon reaching reaching a certain small size (maybe even a singularity), that universe may “bounce” and re-explode in a new big bang.  As a result, the universe follows a cyclical pattern of expansions and contractions.
http://web.uvic.ca/~jtwong/newtheories.htm

The Protouniverse

This theory involves the formation of matter from nothingness before the explosion of the big bang.  It is related to the white hole theory.  A white hole is a theoretical opposite of a black hole, wherein matter would continuously appear at the speed of light, as if from nowhere.  Although there is believed to be no observational evidence of white holes, the protouniverse theory was created in an attempt to explain the non-uniformity and the varying density of the universe.
http://web.uvic.ca/~jtwong/newtheories.htm

The Inflationary Theory

In 1981, a particle physicist named Alan Guth created a new theory.  Guth knew about the matter in physics that explained how elementary particles got their mass.   This matter is called scalar field matter.  Combining the mathematical equations for scalar field with Einstein’s equations describing the expansion of the universe, Guth developed a theory in which large amounts of matter and energy were created from nothing!   After matter and energy were created, the universe experienced an accelerated expansion, becoming exponentially large prior to continuing its evolution according to the big bang model.  This theory has been worked on and modified by many cosmologists since its introduction.
http://web.uvic.ca/~jtwong/newtheories.htm

a) Hubble’s involvement in space research-

Edwin Hubble’s involvement in space research is that he is a well known American astronomer who had studied all galaxies except the Milky Way. Hubble’s, observation clearly proved that nebulae were much more distant than previously thought and were hence galaxies themselves, rather that constituent of the milky way. He had also arranged the different groups of the galaxies in what is now known as the Hubble sequence.

b) What does his space telescope do-

The space telescope is known to be one of the greatest tool invented for astronomy. The telescope was named for American astronomer Edwin Hubble. Although Hubble’s telescope was not the first space telescope  it is one of the largest and most versatile and well known as both a vital research tool and a public relation boon for astronomy.

c) Where is Hubble’s space telescope-

Hubble’s space telescope is in the earth’s orbit

d) What was Hubble’s constant-

Hubble’s constant is the value of h