humanity lies in our ability to live in other worlds.” Space funding is a subject of great controversy. Many U.S. citizens, such as Katherine Whitworth, believe that we shouldn’t fund space exploration because there are many things on Earth that we could fund instead. “If we spend all this money on space exploration,” Whitworth says, “we could be slowly going into debt while we could use the money on things that could help us thrive better on Earth,” Whitworth says that the U.S. could use the money
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The red planet. The next stop for exploration. The controversial topic of sending a man up to the planet Mars raises questions when thinking of the risks, and technology required to do so. When Kennedy addressed the issue of sending a man to the moon, he replied, “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” (Balogh 5). For the time, sending a man to the moon tested the limits, but that was the point. It has shown that humankind
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Sending rockets and other objects into space has been extremely expensive, not to mention the dangerous possibilities of a launch. Space elevators offer a safer and cheaper argument into space exploration. The cost of building each single space elevator capsule would be around 2 billion dollars, compared to the 6.5 billion dollar rockets. The space elevator, once built, would allow for transportation directly to space in re-useable capsules. The
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The Hubble telescope has created a way for people living on earth to see space in ways we never would have seen without it. The telescope was named after discoverer Edward Hubble The Hubble Telescope was first planned and created in 1975 in honour of Dr Edward Hubble, but was launched on April 24th, 1990 by a space shuttle, estimate at almost 1.5 billion dollars but the telescope is still and will continue to add to costs. It has been created to capture images of planets, stars and galaxies, giving
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On July 16, 1969 history was made when the first manned spacecraft landed on the moon. Since then there have been at least six moon landings. Without question this was a very important milestone in the space race. However, there are many people who believe that the National Aeronautic and Space Administration forged the moon landing broadcast. One way the first moon landing can be proven exist is its visibility. We can see it in photos from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. If humans had never
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Surveyor program (1966-1968) The Apollo missions are arguably the most famous missions of human kind. These missions allow us to determine various aspects such as the history, the age, and the composition of the Moon and the Earth. Everyone knows the story of how the astronauts set foot on the Moon, collected lunar rocks and brought them back to Earth. But how did they know what the surface of the Moon would be like? This all thanks to the Surveyor program. Consisted of seven missions, five of
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Colonizing on Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and is 401 million km away from Earth. Aside from Earth, Mars is thought to have the possibility to be the next most inhabited planet due to presence of water unlike a planet like Pluto (too cold with no organic material). Colonizing on Mars is a term used to describe a group of people inhabiting a planet in outer space. People inhabiting the planet stay on Mars for the rest of their lifetime once they arrive. The main idea to have colonizing
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“We start by increasing NASA’s budget by $6 billion over the next five years” – President Obama, 2010 (Dunbar, “Obama on Space Exploration”). Six billion. That’s 600,000,000,000 pennies, 24,000,000,000 quarters, or 111,822 Americans making the average US income of $53,657 (Luhby, “Typical American Family Earnings”). It’s quite a lot of money, bringing the total budget NASA has to 18.4 billion. But that number is measly compared to 1200.7 billion that the US spends on the defense sector (“Federal
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Governments, academics, and scientists may differ in many trains of, thought, but they can all agree there's one major obstacle standing between us and exploring our solar system. Developing advanced propulsion technology has always been an issue here on Earth, however, NASA has started to address that. They have begun testing a new system that could get a spacecraft further than ever before. Will this lead to finding proof of God, or lack thereof? NASA TO GO BEYOND THE SOLAR SYSTEM WITH SAILBOAT
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SP2000-Week 4-Effective Commemorative Speech Exercise The late President Ronald Reagan began his commemorative speech expressing deep sincerity and empathy his reason for the speech. It was a sad occasion, and I remember that day very clearly as I watched the astronauts take off, and then, what started out to be a moment of great excitement quickly turned into a heartbreaking occasion. I could not believe what I had just witnessed. I was speechless and numb. President Reagan’s face said it all
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