[01:54.64]toward a satellite and calculate the orbits [01:57.88]and positions of planets and other space bodies. [02:03.12]Scientists with the American space agency NASA [02:06.44]use pi to calculate when parachutes should open [02:10.24]as a vehicle...
The plan was to “help ensure that every American has access to reliable high-speed internet” at an affordable price by investing in technology, boosting competition, and making it easier to shop for better deals.6 “Broadband internet is necessary for Americans to do their jobs, to participat...
The first recorded American use of SOS to call for help was sent Aug. 11, 1909, off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, when Theodore Haubner called for help from the steamship SS Arapahoe. As the Morse code SOS call was initially intended for maritime use, it was replaced with...
A few months ago, the pulsating signal of the first artificial satellite built by Sergey Korolyov reached this dawn, after which the news arrived that the United States had launched its first satellite, named Explorer 1. Aldebaran, or α Taurus, is 65 light years away. In fact, it is not...
By the time the Marshall Plan ended, in 1951, all the countries who received aid saw their economies grow to better than prewar levels. The Soviet Union believed that the Marshall Plan was a way to meddle in the internal affairs of European countries; this belief prevented Soviet satellite co...
The first American one Ed White did the first American spacewalk in 1965. Credit: NASA The pictures for Ed White’s spacewalk on Gemini 4 still look amazing, nearly 48 years after the fact. The astronaut tumbled and spun during his 23-minute walk in space, and even tested out a small ...
satellite, Explorer 1, launched atop the Juno booster from Launch Complex 26 at the base, which, in 1964, was developed into USAF Space Museum, now the Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum. In 1961, as part of the Project Mercury program, Alan Shepard became the first American to reach space...
Following the launch of Sputnik, it was deemed appropriate that a private organization should be founded in order to best facilitate the burgeoning American Space Program, according to NASA. In late 1957, America's first attempt at a satellite, the Vanguard TV-3, almost immediately crashed back...
New Jersey for experiments in satellite communication. They encountered radiation that was an annoying source of too much noise. No matter how much they tried removing the interference, the radiation would not go away. Soon enough, they realized that what they had detected was the (at that poin...
The US, Britain, Poland and Australia called for an investigation or an explanation from Israel over the aid workers' deaths. In response, Anera, a Washington-based aid group that has been operating in the Palestinian territories for decades, said it was taking the "unprecedented" step of paus...