Week 4 : Task 2 - Astrospies

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* ASTROSPIES : )

In 1960, the Cold War and 13 miles above the Soviet Union all systems went outsides. The two spy got a mission to confirm an alarming tip. Which was the shortest route from Russia to the United States. The U-2's carmeras were technology, but the key to the U-2's success was the pilot's ability to find and photograph the best targets. The U-2's pilot was Francis Gary Powers. However, the US in a very bad position. They couldn't fly over the Soviet Union. Launch complex 5/6 at Florida's Cape Canaveral is a monument to the early days of space exploration. NASA special agent Dann Oakland, in December, 2004, was called over to the old blockhouse to help solve a problem. There was no lights and they started looking around. Buried back in the corner was a blue box. In the box Dann found someting extraordinary. There was one that was 007 and then 008. For James Bamford, and author and investigative repoter that name, "Lawyer". Lawyer's name was on a list of 17 pilots who were chosen for the program. Some of the pilots Bamford found became space shuttle astrunauts. The president Reagan's Star Wars program; General Robert Herres would become Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The story begins in Jan, 1964, with a new group of America's best military pilots arriving at Edwardes Air Force program called ARPS, the Aerospace Research Pilot School. They actually didn't know a soul. They would teach you astronomy and flight mechanics, orbital mechanics which related bodies that are in orbit. President Lyndon Johnson announced the program and gave it a cover story. This program will bring us new knowledge about what man is able to do in space.

* My opinion : )

In the past, there is some occasions to send spies to another nation. Soviet and America are intereted in the astronomy. However, I think that our nation is not interested than others. This is a miserable condition to me, but spies cause some problem in many parts and it will also get another problems. This big happening like this situation shows their big comsideration about universe. It is a completly true fact there is more new knowledge in universe than we expected that, so I think that we have to try to fine out the knowlege as soon as possible. We also have the duty about environment that is created by God, so we should live together and protect them and develop them.

* Vocabulary : D

- Astromaut (noun) : is a person who is trained for travelling in a spacecraft.

- Monument (noun) : is a large structure, usually made of stone, which is built to remind people of an event in history or of a famous person. (memoria, cairn, marker, shrine, tombstone)

- Mechanic (noun) : is someone whose job is to repair and maintain machines and engines, especially car engines.