Science Fiction Short Story Synapsis Essay
Victoria Lindsay
ESS 102 Research Paper Draft
1/27/2017
Science Fiction Short Story Synapsis:
My short story will be written in the form of a log, and tells the story of a young woman who is selected for an investigational mission into space. Mysterious radio waves have been received on earth from beyond Pluto, and NASA wants to discover if there is any possibility that they indicate life on another planet. She is the single crew member on the ship, and details her experiences including close calls with space debris, the effects she is feeling after spending multiple years in space, and finally her discovery of the source of the radio waves (A black hole!). Unfortunately by the time she discovers the black hole her ship is too close and is being pulled in. She is already desperately sick from her long journey however, and decides the most important thing to do is to salvage her report. She cannot …show more content…
We can do so in a variety of ways. First we can look at any common long term health affects experienced by those astronauts, and perform experiments and studies on the Earth Space Shuttle (ESS). We can also look at studies that attempt to mirror the conditions of space travel, including isolation studies, zero gravity studies, and vacuum studies. Several studies have been performed in the past on animals, that we can look at to get an idea of how human bodies would react. One challenge when looking at data from astronauts is that we are of course limited in the number of astronauts, and in addition there are strict privacy rules regarding the health of the astronauts. Despite these challenges, we are able to get a fair idea of many of the risks of prolonged space travel, although there is no way to know that there aren’t other further risks in addition to the ones we have already discovered. I will detail all of the current known risks in the rest of the
ESS 102 Research Paper Draft
1/27/2017
Science Fiction Short Story Synapsis:
My short story will be written in the form of a log, and tells the story of a young woman who is selected for an investigational mission into space. Mysterious radio waves have been received on earth from beyond Pluto, and NASA wants to discover if there is any possibility that they indicate life on another planet. She is the single crew member on the ship, and details her experiences including close calls with space debris, the effects she is feeling after spending multiple years in space, and finally her discovery of the source of the radio waves (A black hole!). Unfortunately by the time she discovers the black hole her ship is too close and is being pulled in. She is already desperately sick from her long journey however, and decides the most important thing to do is to salvage her report. She cannot …show more content…
We can do so in a variety of ways. First we can look at any common long term health affects experienced by those astronauts, and perform experiments and studies on the Earth Space Shuttle (ESS). We can also look at studies that attempt to mirror the conditions of space travel, including isolation studies, zero gravity studies, and vacuum studies. Several studies have been performed in the past on animals, that we can look at to get an idea of how human bodies would react. One challenge when looking at data from astronauts is that we are of course limited in the number of astronauts, and in addition there are strict privacy rules regarding the health of the astronauts. Despite these challenges, we are able to get a fair idea of many of the risks of prolonged space travel, although there is no way to know that there aren’t other further risks in addition to the ones we have already discovered. I will detail all of the current known risks in the rest of the