A couple days ago in class my class and I have watched a movie and we have also taken notes during the movie called “The Mars Generation”. In this summery we will talk about Nasa’s goals like when they went to the moon, and the apollo missions. You will read about Nasa’s history and mistakes like when shuttles are being launched but they go the wrong way. Also you will read about some of the most known people in Nasa like Wernher von Braun, and Neil Armstrong. Today Nasa is currently trying to
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Mars, also known as the “Red Planet”, is Earth’s closest neighbor, which is 225 million kilometers away. A trip to Mars would take 4-6 months. If a trip to Mars is successful as planned, the human would face many different challenges, and troubles. A number of troubles include that they would have to wear a full body suit because Mars's atmosphere is too thin, nevertheless humans would also face the possibility of running low on supplies, while it is possible to grow food with the soil on Mars (desolate)
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No More Space Exploration Imagine billions of dollars right there in your face. Now imagine all that money sent to space and destroyed. That is how most people feel about wasting money on space exploration. It is estimated that about $20 billion dollars are spent on space exploration. This has brought into question the money that is spent on NASA’s space exploration. Should we spend valuable resources on space exploration? Money does not need to be spent on space because there are more problems that
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The spitzer space telescope was launched in 2003 and it was originally supposed to be a 2.5 year long mission but it is still orbiting in space now! Being made up of three low temperature science instruments. The spitzer telescope is an copper telescope that studies the early universe, young galaxies and forming stars, and is used to detect dust disks around stars, considered an important directory of planetary information. This mission was the fourth and final observatory under NASA’s Great Observatory
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Most people associate space exploration with huge government agencies such as NASA, Roscosmos, and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency. However, in the last ten to 15 years, private companies have become major players in the final frontier. Companies such as SpaceX and Boeing are already making rockets, and other spacecraft, for NASA and other space agencies. For example, the International Space Station receives regular supply packages delivered by SpaceX’s Dragon and Falcon 9 spacecraft.
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In the lab assignment this week, we were to choose two space missions to research. After exploring the two missions, we need to tell about what they did and what we have learned from them. There are so many missions that have given us great discoveries. However, after I looked into several of them I decided on the Kepler and Galileo missions. Both of these missions were extraordinary and gave astronomers many new insights into the universe we adore. First, we look at the Kepler Mission. Kepler spacecraft
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The government should not necessarily "foot the bill" for all of NASA's space exhibitions. Back in 1969 when the government poured money into funding the mission that allowed man to set foot on the moon it is important to remember we were in the midst of a "space race" against the Soviet Union. The cold war was a real threat to our safety and we feared that if the Soviet's kept advancing their space technology faster than us than they would have more advanced missiles and potentially attack us with
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The 900 kilogram mars rover Curiosity took damage to its aluminum wheels back some during a mission in 2013. The rocks on mars are sharp and dangerous, showing that they can even break apart the wheels. These rocks plus the harsh winds and dust storms, the Curiosity would be in deep in trouble. However, using smaller robots, different technology and new tactics we can see why and how these wheels broke, and how we can fix them. It could be because of the wheel pattern and design, a fatal design flaw
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into Mars’ Orbit. The losses incurred were of gigantic proportions and NASA could not afford any more failures. This made them rethink their approach towards space exploration and they eventually came up with the philosophy of FBC (Faster, Better, Cheaper). The aim of this approach was to change the way they worked on space exploration. Instead of spending billions of dollars and decades of effort in coming up with one spacecraft which has a lot of functionalities, FBC aimed at creating smaller and
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space exploration is a desire. If we put our desires before our needs, then everyone loses out on a better standard of living. Sure, it's great that NASA can elevate technology to the next level time and time again, so why not make technology that directly benefits us? as there are millions round the world who are starving to death, when people spend more and more money on space technology they should realize they are the killers. I Thinking that the budget devoted to space exploration is wasted
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