...Russian Federal Space agency are two of the most successful space agencies in the world. They have been capable of successfully launching rockets into the stratosphere, spending large sums of money to make this fantasy come true. Not criticizing their accomplishments, but I do believe that this is just a waste of time. Let’s start with the United States. The United States has managed to send about 12 American men to the moon, to this day they are still spending money to try and get more people on the moon and explore new planets. Knowing this, America’s economy is getting worse and worse. Taxes are going up and that doesn’t really seem to do anything or make a difference because Americans don’t want to spend more money on taxes. As of October 13th 2013, America’s debt has increased by 328 billion dollars in a single day surpassing 17 trillion dollars for the first time. Now, if America has so much time to somehow acquire money that can send astronauts up to space, it would be very considerate if they thought of using that money to get America out of this 17 trillion dollar predicament. Another point is that, money is better used to help the people of their own country have or live better lives. We know that us humans exist but we don't know if these so called "space creators" exist so why bother. If there are things out there they don't hurt us. We people in your country we are like family and you have to help family because family comes first Nowadays, Space and Government...
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...Galaxies twice the size of our own. Planets with different characteristics than that of our Earth. Stars much bigger than the Sun. Maybe even finding planets with different life forms. Space exploration could bring to light so many new things and even help create different technologies. President John F. Kennedy knew about the power of space exploration and argued that the United States should mobilize themselves and join the “Space Race” and possibly put a man on the moon. He uses multiple rhetorical strategies that appeal to the emotions, ethics, and logics of the audience to emphasize and further support his claim. Through metaphors, similes, alliteration, repetition, and rhetorical questions, Kennedy proves his point. As President Kennedy...
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...interstellar travel? Interstellar space travel is manned or unmanned space travel between different star systems, in comparison with space travel to other bodies in the same star system. It is invariably more difficult, as the time and distance scale for such an endeavour is almost unimaginable Why we want to visit other stars? The group identified five key factors as high-level motivations for the exploration of distant space: • Human survival: ideas related to creating a legacy for the human species, backing up the Earth’s biosphere, and enabling long-term survival in the face of catastrophic disasters on Earth. • Contact with other life: finding answers to whether there is other life in the universe, whether “intelligent” life exists elsewhere in the galaxy, and at a basic level, whether we are alone in the universe. • Evolution of the human species: exploration as a human imperative, expansion of human understanding and consciousness through space exploration. • Scientific discovery: breakthroughs in scientific understanding of the natural universe, a pursuit for knowledge. • Belief and faith: a search for God or the Divine, a need to explore beyond Earth’s atmosphere as a part of natural theology or as found through religious revelation. These drivers for exploration were identified through group discussion as the most significant, high-level reasons why human societies and individuals would undertake the exploration of space over long timescales and distances...
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...years, the United States Space Program has brought to life things that, as late as the 1950’s, were once believed to be impossible. As a little boy, I remember watching TV in the library at school as the latest space shuttle was going to blast off from its launch pad en route to its destiny in space exploration. As I’ve grown, so too has my never ending curiosity of what lies beyond our own planet and solar system. We have been to the moon, seen unbelievable, up close photos of planets like Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and just when it looked like we’re about to make a leap into exploring beyond our solar system or possibly sending a manned mission to Mars, it all stops. Along with millions of other people who grew up dreaming of one day going into outer space or visiting a faraway planet, we all watched in horror as the United States Space Program has all but been eliminated by decisions made by members of Congress and President Barak Obama to drastically overhaul funding for NASA and the United States Space Program. In 2010, the President announced dramatic changes including the abandonment of the Constellation program and the Ares Rocket which was supposed to replace the newly retired space shuttle program, as well as outlining the development of commercializing elements of the industry which has forced NASA to re-evaluate the overall direction of its program and establish new, long-term initiatives. Will the commercialization and privatization of the space flight program enable...
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...a lot from going into space, and we could create amazing inventions from it. A great deal of modern technology is a result of space exploration, so we should continue to explore space to expand our technology and knowledge. Technology before the exploration of space was different than the technology we have today....
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...dreamed about exploring and colonizing space since the early ages, it's been a fantasy until now. “I don't think the humans race will survive the next thousands year, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can be befall life on a single plante. But i'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.” Stephen Hawking. The daily telegraph, October 16, 2001. Humankind will one day have to relocate from earth due to overpopulation and pollution but we still have a long way to conquer the stars. Humans had come a long way since we first landed in the moon but we still got a longer way to colonizing new planets. Space Exploration started after war world two when united states and soviet union created their missile...
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...The Race in Space: The U.S. Remains Victorious As the entire world watched from Earth on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon. He was not only the first human, but the first American in doing so. The race to the moon ended on that day and the United States proclaimed as the victor among their immediate competitor, the Soviet Union. Over the next 4 years, an additional eleven men would leave their footprints in history, all similar Neil, being American. Since then, countries all over the world have attempted to surpass the U.S. for a chance at being first in space exploration and development. None has been a bigger competitor for the U.S. than Russia. Because of the advances the United States has and continues to make, the...
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...Reagan’s Exhortation to Continue Exploration in the United States On January 28th, 1596, a world renowned explorer by the name of Sir Francis Drake died while exploring the oceans. Similarly 390 years later to the day, seven NASA astronauts lost their lives shortly after their shuttle, Challenger, took off. Both Drake and the shuttle crew dedicated their lives to exploring the unknown all in the name of discovery. Some of Ronald Reagan’s rhetoric in this speech was influenced by tensions in the wake of The Cold War. This expedition was groundbreaking, and many school children and citizens watched the take-off and then explosion live. Reagan uses juxtaposition, allusion, and diction that connects the audience to the words being uttered,...
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...H : La technologie avance avec une vitesse rafolante. Dans la mission Deep Space 1, on a testé 12 technologies très avancées. Nous allons, aujourd’hui vous approfondir sur cette mission. Alors, c’était la NASA qui était responsable de ce projet. J : La sonde spatiale Deep Space 1 fut lancée de Cap Canaveral le 24 Octobre 1998 à l'aide d'une fusée Delta II. En septembre 1999, les chercheurs de la Nasa estimaient que Deep Space 1 avait triomphalement rempli tous ses objectifs. Mais la sonde intéressait également les scientifiques. Ces derniers avaient programmé une série de rendez-vous avec des astéroïdes et des comètes. H : Il a eut des problèmes pendant les déroulement. Il y avait un signal très faible. Après quelques calculs, on s'aperçoit bien vite que Deep Space 1 tourne sur elle-même au rythme d'une rotation toutes les heures. A cause de ce mouvement, le signal est très faible puisque lorsque l'antenne se rapproche de la Terre, le signal devient plus fort. Inversement, il faiblit rapidement dès que l'antenne s'éloigne. Il faut obligatoirement stopper sa rotation au bon moment, de manière à ce que l'antenne parabolique pointe dans la direction de la Terre. Connaissant la position du Soleil et l'angle Terre-Soleil, les ingénieurs peuvent ordonner à la sonde de basculer dans la direction de notre planète. L'antenne parabolique reçoit alors l'ordre d'émettre continuellement des données, l'objectif étant de suivre l'évolution de la force du signal radio sur un tour complet...
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...Jeremy Kibbey Martin Rottler April 25, 2018 Kibbey 2000 Paper Industry Reading List Assignment “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” Said John F. Kennedy on September 12, 1962 at Rice University. This quote was also the introductory statement to the book “The Privatization of Space Exploration” By Lewis D Solomon, who explains the spirit of America in the 1960s we shifted our thinking from the age of the depression, where-in people would scrounge the earth to fix something broken and make it work. Today, as Solomon identified even in the 60s that people found it more efficient and effective to buy new when something was broken. Some of this complacency, and lack of intellectual intrigue to build engineer and repair, Solomon identified as a product of NASAs monopoly. This idea of lack of ingenuity, resource or desire is one hammered into my head since the start of my aviation career at 12 years old. I had begun Civil Air Patrol, a venture that would turn into a seven year commitment and result in life long friendships. My greatest mentor and the best pilot I have ever met drilled into my brain that nothing cannot be created without...
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...Space Travel Activity Name :James Foreman Course: ASTR100 Date: 06/20/2014 Space travel is one of the most urgent problems of modern civilization. Although the knowledge of people about traveling into the space is rooted in the history, the actual space traveling became possible only in the 20th century with the development of rocket technology. Undoubtedly, space travel is not a country picnic. Moderate temperature and atmospheric pressure fluctuations seem natural for us. However, in deep space humans will have to face the fact that most of the universe is in a state of chaos and there are deadly radiation belts and meteor swarms. The first problem of a long space travel to be solved is weightlessness. Conducted long-term studies of weightlessness have shown that the human body in space loses minerals necessary for life and chemicals much faster than expected. Even a tough program of physical exercise cannot save the situation: after a year on the space station astronauts bones and muscles atrophy so that when they return to Earth, they are only able to crawl like infants. It seems that the logical consequences of a prolonged staying in weightlessness during space flight are muscle atrophy, deterioration of the locomotor system, reducing the production of red blood cells, decreasing immune response...
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...NASA Research Paper Chelsea Best 4138567 LSTD 300 Professor Kerney Since its beginning the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been pivotal in the scientific advancements made in the United States. Their vision, “To reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what we do and learn will benefit all humankind.” The scientist and researchers for NASA are trying to answer questions not just about the universe at large, but also about everyday human lives here on Earth. There are four focuses of NASA’s activity, called mission directives. Aeronautics, which focuses on meeting the worldwide demand for more eco-friendly and sustainable aircrafts. Human Exploration and Operations which involves operations on the International Space Station (ISS), developing commercial spaceflight and the ability for humans to explore beyond low-Earth Orbit. Scientist are exploring not only the Earth itself, but the universe beyond as well and works on charting the best exploration paths for us to continue discovering the universe. Space Technology is the final mission directive of NASA which combines elements from the others to develop and create the most innovative technology to aid future missions. NASA is also working hard to aid in the development of a private sector in space travel. Their hope is that by commercializing some aspects of space travel, such as routine trips to the ISS, more of their resources will be available for furthering their overall goals. This...
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...Extreme Exploration By: Santiago Lopez 5-13-14 Mr. Zorfrea Grant Elementary Lopez 1 People think that extreme exploration is helpful to satisfy curiosity, but others think it’s a waste of time and money. People think that it isn’t worth the cost. I believe it’s worth a cost because there are advances in medicine, technology, and the economy. Some find medicine which leads to new technology which leads to the growth in the economic community. For example in “The Adventure of Sojourner” the rover’s battery lasted for a month. That battery could be used in earth on cars and on helicopter which helps the economy. Others find medicine to cure diseases like cancer. We conduct extreme exploration so we could find plants or herbs. In space, we could find a planet that is undiscovered could have plants and water that cures injuries and illness. In deep sea exploration we could find underwater creatures that help the economy .In “Why Exploring the Ocean Is Mankind’s Next Giant Leap” Filmmaker, James Cameron, says “A new era of ocean exploration can yield discoveries that will help in form everything from critical medical advances to sustainable forms of energy.” When people conduct extreme exploration, new technology is invented. When new technology is invented it helps the economy. In “JFK’s speech” he states that “Just as wartime development of the radar gave us the transistor (use in radios), and all that it made possible, so research in space medicine...
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...Space Exploration Must Continue If The United States of America (USA) discontinues space exploration America will not continue to be viewed as a world leader by other countries. According to Encyclopedia Britannica Online Academic Edition, “Space exploration is the investigation, by means of manned and unmanned spacecraft, of the reaches of the universe beyond Earth’s atmosphere and the use of the information so gained to increase knowledge of the cosmos and benefit humanity” ("Space Exploration"). Even though financial costs are on the rise, the continuance of space exploration is imperative to our developing world because learning about life on other planets, untapped natural resources, and scientific research is essential to remaining a world leader. Our four fathers began space exploration many moons ago. It is imperative that we follow in their footsteps and have not only the courage to continue but also have the drive to want to succeed in this area of exploration. The USA is known as one of the leading world powers of scientific research and technology, if the nation is to remain in this position the USA must forge ahead with space exploration. As of today we do not have proof that we are the only life source in the universe. Scientist search for proof of other beings in the universe, “This year scientist identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphors, and carbon some very vital elements need to support life on a planet” ("Science Daily"). ...
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...ethically sound. It is ethical to be socially responsive and careful in its activities for NASA. Toxic chemicals are used in manufacturing rockets that are injurious to the health of humankind. During operation of rockets, carbon dioxide is used in high quantity that contains adverse impact on atmosphere. In addition, huge amount of energy is used in manufacturing equipment’s and vehicles that are used in spatial programs. It is however, unethical if NASA does not take care of these negative social impacts on the society. In addition, the chances of failure of any space operation should also be minimized so that NASA can be socially...
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