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Manned Mars Missions, 2002.
A review of manned missions to Mars.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 53.95
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This six-page graduate-level paper examines and analyzes manned missions to Mars, and concludes that sending human crews to explore our neighboring planet would not be a wise choice at this time. There are better alternatives, such as establishing a commercial presence in near-earth orbit and the Moon, and exploring Mars with unmanned probes.
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The Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Missions to Mars, 2003.
Examines the justifications for the development of intelligent autonomous systems in space missions to Mars.
2,440 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 16 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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Intelligent systems are becoming increasingly important in deep space missions, especially missions to Mars. This paper covers three intelligent technologies: (1) The intelligent space ship 'Deep Space One' and its autonomous navigation system; (2) The Mars global surveyor and the deep space terminal and (3) The 'Sojourner' and Rocky 7 and 8 rovers.
The paper includes illustrations.
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"Deep Space One marked the first mission of NASA's New Millennium Program which is aimed at testing highly advanced technologies for low-cost planetary missions [3]. The key component being tested by the mission was its AutoNav system. AutoNav is made up of three main tools: the Nav Main (simply Nav), the Nav Executive (NavExec) and the Nav Real-Time (NavRT). Nav and NavRT have architectures very similar to those of expert systems where decisions are based on algorithms built on sets of well defined rules. As well its decisions are supported by information gathered autonomously. In that respect it is very similar to the path planning software used in planetary rovers, which will be discussed later."
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Mission To Mars, 1997.
Discusses the underlying questions surrounding a manned mission to Mars. Examines whether there is sufficient technology in existence, what kinds of data can be expected, what sorts of problems can be anticipated and whether it is important.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 31.95
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"Manned Mission to Mars
Ever since the Sojourner began sending back video images from Mars, a renewed interest in the possibility of a manned mission to Mars has occurred. Such a plan as a mission to Mars raises all sorts of scientific, technical, and philosophical questions that this analysis will attempt to deal with. The main questions covered will be: 1) is there sufficient technology right now to handle such a mission? 2) is it important? 3) what kinds of data can it be expected will be returned? and 4) what are the problems of such a mission?
Is Technology Available
According the best data available, a manned mission to Mars is conceivable using the current technology resources available."
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Mars Pathfinder, 2004.
An overview of the 1996 Mars Pathfinder mission.
5,162 words (approx. 20.6 pages), 22 sources, MLA, $ 129.95
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This paper provides a mission overview of the Mars Pathfinder mission ,launched in December 1996 as part of an ongoing series of Mars missions to prepare for the landing of a man on the 'red planet' in the next century. It gives a brief mission summary, followed by a scientific description focusing on how Pathfinder made it to Mars and how it surveyed Mars's atmosphere and Mars's surface. It looks at how Mars Pathfinder was not only a huge scientific success, but also gave the public, via Internet, the opportunity to participate at a space mission at a level never experienced before.
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Title
Abstract
Chapter
Introduction
Mission Summary
Science Description
Spacecraft Description
Development and Manufacturing Structure
Launch Vehicle
Mission Costs
Summary
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"On December 4, 1996 the pathfinder mission was launched on a Delta II-7925 launch vehicle out of Cape Canaveral Air Station. After 211 days in space and a distance traveled of almost 300 million miles the spacecraft landed on July 4, 1997 at its destination (DLR, 2003). In order to fine-tune the flight path a series of four-trajectory correction maneuvers (TCMs) were performed throughout the journey. NASA used the Deep Space Network (DSN) for tracking, telemetry, and command operations. DSN is an international network of antennas that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions by using giant dish antennas (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2004)."
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Baptist Missions, 2005.
A brief history of Baptist missions.
2,324 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 71.95
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This paper examines how Baptists are still at the forefront of missions work and how faith missions, small missionary outposts without affiliation to a larger missions group, are often staffed by Baptist missionaries. These faith missions have an enduring quality and steady growth. They also are among the first to employ creative new ways of spreading the Gospel. It looks at how the history of Baptist missions is littered with the names of brave men and women following the call of God into areas of the world far from home, devoid of all creature comforts.
Outline:
Introduction
William Carey
American Missions
The Judsons
Back in America
Pioneer African American Missionaries
Women and Missions
Conclusion
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"After forming the Baptist Missionary Society, Carey and his family became foreign missionaries themselves. They set sail for India on June 13, 1793. When he and his family arrived, they found a rather hostile reception from the country that was controlled by the East India Company. The East India Company did not look kindly on missionaries. After seven years of faithful service, Carey baptized his first Hindu convert, Krishna Pal. William Carey dealt with all sorts of hurdles, one of the largest being his wife. Initially she was opposed to the idea of even going to India. At the last moment, she changed her mind. Never fond of the mission field to begin with, she went insane when her five-year-old son died. She raved like a lunatic during her last years on earth, complicating her husband's job immensely. Mrs. Carey, in her state of delusion, was convinced that her husband was cheating on her and would tell anyone who would listen. "
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Apollo 7 and 8 Space Missions, 2003.
An analysis of the effect of the Apollo 7 and 8 missions to America's standing in the space race.
2,629 words (approx. 10.5 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 79.95
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This paper discusses the Apollo 7 and Apollo 8 space missions and their overall effect on the United States' space race. It looks at the history behind the space race and climate in the United States at the time that the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) was first developing these missions. The paper concludes that these missions helped to revive American interest and motivate the public's support for NASA, as well as helped America to take a definite lead in the space race against the Soviets.
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"Remembering the Apollo 8 mission, William Anders stated, "The biggest surprise of the mission was to see the first Earthrise over the moon and to realize that the Earth was even more interesting than the moon. I consider the moon voyages a technical feat, a political feat." Apollo 8 was indeed both of these. The Apollo 7 and 8 missions were vital ingredients in the overall victory for America in the space race. They helped to revive American interest and motivate the public's support for NASA. They also helped America to take a definite lead in the space race against the Soviets and use this momentum to continue to the moon. Lastly, they helped to prove that the moon was a feasible goal, and that Kennedy's idea of putting a man on the moon before the decade was out was more than possible."
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Religious and Economic Missions, 2005.
This paper discusses European religious and economic missions in the 17th and 18th centuries as depicted in Shuzaku Endo's book "Silence" (1969) and Rolfe Joffe's film "The Mission" (1986).
1,265 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper explains that both Shuzaku Endo's novel "Silence" and Rolfe Joffe's film "The Mission" suggest that European trade and religion, which had seriously conflicting objectives, came into contact with the peoples of Japan and the Americas respectively. The author points out that these forces, including those of the Catholic Church, were disruptive and invasive; however, in the film "The Mission", the Catholic Church was shown as bringing about some tangible benefits in terms of shelter and safety to the indigenous peoples they sought to convert. The paper relates that, on the other hand, in "Silence", the Portuguese missionaries and those who had come before them, seriously misunderstood the inherent reasons for the non-acceptance of Christianity by the Japanese.
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"This is a far different sort of opening than Roland Joffe's film "The Mission", in which we see, first-hand, the enormous initial fear in the Colombian Indians' eyes when the first of the Jesuits arrives, but then, subsequently, how the Indians come to trust and even love the Jesuits. In this region, the Jesuits eventually come to represent a benevolent force against the Portuguese and Spanish tradesmen who would hunt and capture the Indians, and sell them for slaves. "The Mission" explicitly contrasts the conflicting interests of the Jesuits and the other European groups of tradesmen who come to the area, and shows how the Jesuits sought to convert, but also to protect the lives of the Indians of Colombia, while the tradesmen who hunted them sought only to exploit them for profit."
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Spanish Missions in California, 2002.
A discussion of the Spanish Christian religious missions in California in the 1700-1800's.
1,030 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper introduces and discusses the Spanish missions in California between 1700 and 1800. Specifically, it looks at how the missions were founded, the Spanish motivation to found them, and the secularization of the missions. It examines what the Spaniards hoped to achieve - how the system had worked in other places that they conquered and how California ended up being different.
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"One of Spain's traditional ways of conquering a new country was to establish missions to bring the "savages" who lived there the "true" faith. Jesuit missionaries traveled with Cortez, and after their domination of Mexico, they established missions across Mexico and into the desert Southwest of what is now the United States. Jos? de G?lvez came from Spain to serve as the "commandancy-general" of the northern area of Mexico. One of his first aims was to expand Spain's influence into Alta California, to gain more land, more converts to Catholicism, and more world power for Spain. He determined the best way to do this was by adding missions to the already vigorous mission system in Baja California."
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Mars Global Surveyor, 2001.
Nature, function & purpose of Mars Observer mission. NASA timeline. Instrumentation. Outline.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 6 sources, $ 39.95
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"The Mars Global Surveyor is an American spacecraft which went into orbit around Mars on September 12, 1997 to conduct a detailed photographic survey of the planet beginning in March 1998. The spacecraft used a formerly untried technique called aerobraking to turn its initially highly elongated orbit into a circular orbit by dipping into the outer atmosphere of the planet. This was a $273 million project that began sending important data about the planet's surface at a quarter of the cost of the Mars Observer mission, which had failed in 1993 (Lawler, 2000).
Mars has long been a particular goal for space exploration. The planet has excited the human imagination, perhaps because of the many literary and dramatic works that suggested civilizations on Mars, and certainly because of the long-ago.."
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Christian Missions in Acts 8:1-28:31, 1994.
This paper discusses the relationship between the Christian mission to Judea, Samaria and other communities (Acts 8:1-12:23) and the mission of Paul "to the ends of the earth" (Acts 12:24-28:31).
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, $ 39.95
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"This paper is concerned with the relationship between the Christian mission to Judea, Samaria, and other communities (Acts 8:1-12:23); and the mission of Paul "to the ends of the earth" (Acts 12:24-28:31).
The basic purpose of The Acts of the Apostles is to describe how the early Christian Church leaders went on to preach, assert, and proclaim the salvation Jesus Christ had given to the world. In order to spread the good news, it was essential for the apostles to perform missionary work. Certain Christian concepts and theological issues were in need of resolution; and the early Christian movement was slowly on its way to become a world-wide religion.
Although the first Christian believers were tolerated for the Most Dart by the Roman establishment, this would not be true ... "
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William Carey: The Father of Modern Missions, 2006.
An analysis of the life of William and Dorothy Carey and the missionary work that they achieved.
2,863 words (approx. 11.5 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 85.95
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This paper discusses the life and work of William Carey, the father of modern missions. It begins with a background of Carey's life and the life of his wife, Dorothy Carey. It then describes the original opposition that he experienced towards missions and how he began a mission in Calcutta. The paper also discusses how the Carey's wound up moving to Serampore and joining the other missionaries there and the work that they did in the area.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Early Years
Dorothy Carey
The Preacher
Baptist Missionary Society
India
Serampore
Later Life
Conclusion
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"In November of 1800, while Dr. John Thomas was visiting the Serampore Mission, a man named Krishna Pal broke his arm. Thomas went to fix it and was able to share the gospel with him. Some time later, Krishna Pal ran into him on the street and informed him that he believed in Jesus. Thomas invited him to come home and eat with them. Eating with a foreign family was a sign of breaking caste, it was one of the ways that the Serampore Trio had devised to test a convert to see if their faith was sincere. He joined them and became the first official convert from Carey's work in India. By 1821, fourteen hundred new Christians had been baptized, more than half of them Indians."
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Spanish Missions in California, 1996.
Mission system as failed effort to colonize state, convert Native Amer., control land & labor through religion, politics & economics.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, $ 47.95
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"The California mission system was an attempt to create an infrastructure for a society that never arrived. But the system did perform an important role in California's participation in "a major expansion of the capitalist world economy" during the 65 years of the missions' existence. From 1769 to 1834, when the missions were operational, the world-market involvement of the area grew extensively until, by the time of the secularization of the mission properties around 1834, California was an important "peripheral area within the economic world-system."
The missions established food-production centers near the best ports. In 1786 the first capital ventures, the export of sea otter pelts, began under private license from the Spanish crown. Quite rapidly the area developed, under the mission system, the initial stages of participation in the world economy..."
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Life on Mars, 2002.
A discussion of whether there is life on the planet Mars.
942 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper looks at literary and scientific documentation to assess whether the possibility exists that there is both life and an existing civilization in Mars and whether Mars is able to support human (or at least similar to the elements needed to support human living) life.
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Introduction
Graham Hancock?s ?The Mars Mystery?
Summary of Scientific Speculations
List of Similarities between Mars and Earth
Evidence Supporting Life on Mars
Physical Structure and Composition of Mars
Chemical, Biological and Atmospheric Composition of Mars
Life is Possible on Mars
Civilization Existed on Mars
Space Missions and Probes
Space Mission/Programs Funded by Various Nations
Disqualification of Claims of Civilization on Mars
Conclusion
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"These space probes and explorations about Mars brought about numerous information and even pictures of the planet?s surface. However, it is difficult to obtain quality shots of the planet?s surface because of its distance from the Earth, and accuracy and precision was sacrificed when information brought by these probes came into existence and knowledge of scientists and astronomers. One speculation that resulted from these studies and explorations is that aside from the possibility that Mars is capable of cultivating human life, there has been evidence supporting some scientists? claim that there existed a form of civilization in Mars."
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Mars Pathfinder, 1999.
Examines the mission's success, purpose, cost, findings, technology, Sojourner rover and its future impact.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 11 sources, $ 79.95
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The Mars Pathfinder Mission was an extremely successful venture, which has boosted the NASA Discovery Program and planet exploration in general. The data collected delivered some interesting surprises, but has contributed to our knowledge about the planet Mars and created basis for further study.
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"Mars Pathfinder - Generating Useful Data and Goodwill
The Mars Pathfinder Mission was an extremely successful venture, which has boosted the NASA Discovery Program and planet exploration in general. The data collected delivered some interesting surprises, but has contributed to our knowledge about the planet Mars and created basis for further study.
The Mars Pathfinder mission was the second launch in the NASA Discovery Program. Missions falling under this umbrella are of short duration, three years or less, and relatively low cost at 150 million dollars. The specific mission of the Mars Pathfinder was primarily to provide an engineering demonstration of the key technologies and concepts which will eventually be used in future missions. The mission was to demonstrate a low-..."
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The Case for Water on Mars, 2002.
Scientific analysis of some of the evidence pointing to the existence of water on Mars.
1,860 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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The paper looks at the Viking landing missions on Mars twenty years ago and their tests for biological processes on the Martian surface. It looks at how a recent series of orbiting Martian missions has yielded a good deal of chemical and geographic observations from afar. The most exciting possibilities have come from the analysis and interpretation of Martian surface formations seen by these missions. The paper includes a detailed description of these formations such as outflow channels, seepage gullies and several others. In further searches for definitive findings, several missions in the near future will land on Mars and hopefully provide the best data yet. This paper details some of the discoveries made to date, the strongest arguments for water on Mars and what the future holds for Martian exploration.
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"The thought of life on Mars has intrigued humans for centuries. As Martian astronomy has made incredible leaps in the past 100 years and many spectacular discoveries have been made, we are still not sure if life does or has ever existed on Mars. Over the last thirty years, as our knowledge of biological functions has increased, scientists have focused more and more on the existence of liquid water as the biggest single indicator of possible life. To that end, much work and controversy has surrounded man?s efforts to find evidence of that all important ingredient for the development of life on Mars."
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