GEOLOGY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wernher Von Braun, Lunar Orbiter Program, Wac Corporal
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The renaissance: rebirth of a rational thought from 15th to 17th century europe, spawned a new age of scienti c discover. Newton: planet motion explained by his theory of gravity: geocentricity faded away, the 17th century: dawn of telescopic observation. Telescopes are now mostly used for studying other stars and galaxies. Milestones from the pre-space ight era: lunar craters, asteroid discovery, seasons on mars, geological map of the moon. Errors from the pre-space ight era: no surface features could be seen on mercury, venus, asteroids, or the satellites of the outer planets, origin of lunar craters uncertain, conditions on mars, signs of intelligent life on mars. !1: fundamental advances in rocket science upon which space ight depends were driven by military/political agendas during wwii and the cold war. 1/9/17: the rst human-made object in space was a nazi rocket. Nasa: apollo moon landings were the pinnacle of his career.
