Space Development by Lockheed Martin

Space Development by Lockheed martin

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Steven Marchegiani

A Presented in Partial Fulfillment

Of the Requirements of

HIST4040

December 2006

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Introduction

Since several decades ago , we witness that television networks race for providing attractive entertainment shows to improve their ratings and in turn generate more revenue from it . One particular show that continues attracting many TV watchers is science fiction especially related to unsolved mysteries

One of famous TV series that

display various this issue is the X-s The TV series have become a favorite , media beloved and marketing bonanza since the TV series have successfully fulfilled the curiosity of many people in the world who eagerly want to know what the truth behind many unsolved mysteries

Starting two smart and nice-looking FBI agents , Dana Scully and Fox Mulder , the Fox Network provides us with two contradictory characters While Mulder becomes the believer of any sightings , his partner , Scully is the skeptics since she denies any facts based on scientific method and theories

Moreover , in the intro of the X-s TV series , we can see there are words displayed such as UFO (Unidentified Flying Object , sightings , and ESP . Since the TV series exhibit the unsolved mysteries , the watchers award the shows with high ratings since they love to answer what the unsolved mysteries must be

No wonder if we witnessed that during the mid 90 's , the X-s TV series experienced a steady growth by 7 percent of audience to over 15 millions watchers , at age from 18 to 49 , each week (Blythe 1999

As cast successfully by Dana Scully who becomes the skeptics to any unsolved mysteries such UFO and other creatures coming from outer space this will discuss about the recent development of space mission and recommend Lockheed Martin to urge the development of spacecraft and discuss their involvement in helping the development of a USA space program

Development of Space Mission

The Early U .S . Space Program

The development of U .S . Space program , of course , does not relate to the high-ratings of famous TV series and motion pictures like Star Trek X-s , or Star Wars . In fact , the development of U .S . Space Program has occurred since mid 20th century where the U .S . has successfully launched the unmanned satellite , named Explorer I

The objective of satellite is to discover the magnetic radiation belts around the Earth . The success of the Explorer I program became the milestone of future space program in which at that time , the U .S government committed to develop ongoing series of lightweight scientifically useful spacecraft (Launius , 2006

Historically , the launch of the satellite -Explorer I- on January 31 1958 was to challenge the Soviet Union Space Program that successfully launched Sputnik 1 , unmanned satellite , on October 4 , 1957 (Launius 2006 . The lag in the race of space program and the fear of Soviet superiority in space program that could threaten U .S . national security has forced U...