Physical Science

Neil Armstrong. (1930- ) Neil Armstrong’s words were heard around the world as a billion people watched the first historic lunar landing on the moon on July 20, 1969. Shortly after, Neil Armstrong stepped from the Eagle lunar spacecraft to…
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1934 1968), a Russian military officer was the first man in space and the first to orbit the Earth on that same flight. His small stature, 5 ft. 2 in., was instrumental in getting him assigned to…
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The area outside the Earth’s atmosphere is known as space. It is in space that all planets stars, nebula and other heavenly bodies exist. Human beings, curious in nature are by instinct obliged to explore, to know any unknown. In…
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John Hershel Glenn Jr. was born July 18, 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio and was in all ways what we commonly think of as a hero. In his long life he was a Marine Corp. Fighter pilot, one of the original…
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‘ According to recently published articles and journals, it seems that the great minds of our age are apparently agreeable to one accord . . . that the boundaries of the universe, the depth of all that it contains, and…
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When talking about telescopes, it is important to understand that telescopes used for night time viewing are primarily light gathering devices. Particularly at night, our eyes do not very effectively capture enough light to make distant or dim objects to…
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Could NASA have faked the moon landings? Might what we have witnessed actually been nothing more than an elaborate hoax? Preposterous, you quip. After all, why would the US government propagate such lies? Moreover, what could be the possible motive?…
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We live on a planet that goes around a sun. Now, this sun can be seen from many light years away, while our planet won’t be even a speck in light generated by our sun. Our sun has planets going…
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Moon Landing It Happened Sometimes , conspiracy theorists can be very convincing with their negative arguments. The case expounded against the authenticity of the Apollo 11 moon landing and those that followed is thought provoking. However, look for the reasons…
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The fourth element on the periodic table, beryllium, with a chemical symbol of Be andatomic weight of 9.01218 g/mole, is a naturally occurring substance. It is found in natureas a solid with a density of 1.85 g/ml. Naturally, it occurs…
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