On the way to mars Georgie talks about how on the six month trip there she read a book called Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. In “ What would it take to live here” a realistic time to get to mars is nine months. Mars is 140 million miles away from earth. We do not have the technology to take humans that far away.Engineers are constructing the strongest rocket ever to carry people deep into outer space.…
Radioactive fallout eventually settles to earth and may contaminate land, water, and the food we eat.…
SPACE RACE 1957-1969 By Mahbube Adem The Cold War Cold war was an era of conflict, tension and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. It started in mid-1940s and lasted till the early 1990s.…
An article in Time Magazine reports that getting to Mars quickly is not only for its last for the long…
III. Not only is the budget an issue, but the Mars One group will find that the actual trip to Mars will have many complications for their volunteers.…
The sky is illuminated by the sun, only the size of our moon this far out. The red dust swirls with a gust of wind and your movements are slowed by the weight of your spacesuit. Your progress across the barren desert toward the compound that houses the plants you and your companions need to survive is slow but by now, four months into your new life, you have become used to it. Just eleven months ago you left Earth and started your journey toward what is now your home, the red planet of our solar system, Mars. The year is 2027 and you can’t believe you arrived here at last.…
There isn’t enough power to come back to Earth. This is the big problem because all the other problems branch of from this issue.…
We can solve world issues like world hunger and overcrowding by growing crops and moving people out into our solar system. We can bring a whole new industry of trade. We can build infrastructure and technologies with these resources that are literally beyond imagination. Millions of job opportunities can be opened up, from a space janitor to a commander of a spacecraft. Anyone's dreams and aspirations can really come true. We can create a solid backup of the human race on a different planet. We have been coming up with plans to go to mars for 65 years. The plans are around. The research has been done. We can do it, we just need to go. We can send all the rovers and drones that we want to the red planet. But what a rover can do in its entire lifetime can be accomplished by a human in one single day. Rovers have only scratched the surface humans can explore so much more. To go to mars it takes all of us. Every race, religion, country, and creed. We unite to achieve anything we can unite together and reach mars. Going to the moon united us all and inspired a generation at a time of worry and anguish. Going to mars will do the same. Impossible is a word humans use far too often, Mars is certainly not…
Opening Statement: The government uses approximately 17.6 billion dollars of the taxpayers money to fund NASA every year. We shouldn’t be funding NASA that money when our economy is the worst it’s been since the Great Depression; we need to focus and spend our money on the problems here on Earth. NASA hasn’t done anything significant in space in years. And it’s incredibly risky and dangerous going up there.…
technology. By the 1950s, technology was advanced far enough that Space travel was a reality (McNesse 4).…
rays. Cosmic rays are from high depths in space. The meteorite that struck earth known as…
Three, two, one, blast off. The ship went up in smoke as it rose to the atmosphere and launched the first satellite into space. This achievement started the Space Race. The race to the Moon would be an excruciating and long task for the U.S. and the Soviet Union.…
My favorite by far is the launching rockets quest. I liked it the most because it was really hands on from what I understand and launching rockets sound pretty cool to me. Also there are several different models of rockets that the teams could build and so many ways to decorate it, the possibilities were endless. My most absolute favorite part about this quest is that there are so many trials and errors until you actually find the exact right model, and most teams probably did not find the exact right model which makes this quest even more exciting because you can work on it after it…
In 1957 the Soviet Union launched “Sputnik” an artificial satellite into orbit; this sparked a very sudden desire of competition, between the United States and The Soviet union, to be more technologically advanced than one another. The priority of getting a man into space became first on the list. Where this man could be found? Where to start looking? Test Pilots!, At the time were the best of the best, there was no “Top Gun” these were the men that could get the job done, the only problem is getting them to do this “circus stunt” as Virgil (Guss) Grissom once said. The United Stated Government started working with German scientists and Americas best aeronautical engineers to first, at least, launch a spherical piece of aluminum into orbit, as the soviets just have. In 1958 when the United States launched Explorer I, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) began working with full steam, devoting all time and money to getting a man into space, with the collaboration of the original mercury 7 astronauts.…
What does a planet need to have in order to support life? Earth is unique in our solar system because it is the only planet that is supporting life. Some scientists go so far as to say that the Earth is a “perfect planet” because it has features that are the perfect environment for living organisms; these features include our atmosphere, water, and a single moon. Earth is also in a place in our solar system where the Sun gives off the right amount of energy to drive the life. The distance from the Earth to the Sun determines how much of that heat we receive. If it weren’t for our ozone layer and Earth’s magnetic field, harmful rays would penetrate our surface and life would be exterminated. Everything the Earth has to offer us is balanced perfectly to keep life continuous.…