Space Age Research Paper
The Space Age
February 2013, asteroid 2012 DA14 is plummeting towards Earth. My science class at Crestwood Junior High was chatting about this amazing phenomenon. Most of the class is just counting down the minutes until the bell rings. But I had just started my journey through the unknown, that is still going on today. Wanting to learn all I can about spacecrafts, planets, asteroids, and the many other things around us. From some of the first spacecrafts, all the way to cool technologies that never came to be. Just like the Dyna-Soar spaceplane that was canceled just before building started. This space age style journey has been going on for more than three years. Over just three short space filled years, I have accumulated two telescopes, …show more content…
But October 28, 2014 is probably one rocket launch that I might never forget. It was on this day that the Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus spacecraft on Mission Orbital Resupply flight 3, would fail to make it to its target the International Space Station. All was going smoothly with the countdown, I was just laying in bed with my computer. I had planned that I was going to watch, what I thought was going to be a completely routine liftoff, then take a small nap. But boy was I wrong! Everything seemed to be going as planned for the first few seconds of the launch. But after that there was a bright flash at the bottom of the rocket, and it almost seemed to hover in the sky for a few seconds, then it began to fall. I shot out of bed, and ran into my parent's bedroom, they were just chatting about their day, and plopped the computer in front of them just as a huge explosion engulfed the screen. I was in complete shock! This was the first time I had seen something not go as planned. It was only a few minutes latter that the news broke on the TV. NASA continued to post live updates, for hours of any new information. No new information came from the press conference, it was just basically the same information. NASA ended there webcast, and I considered going to bed. But I knew that there was another launch at about one in the morning from Baikonur. I was slightly worried
February 2013, asteroid 2012 DA14 is plummeting towards Earth. My science class at Crestwood Junior High was chatting about this amazing phenomenon. Most of the class is just counting down the minutes until the bell rings. But I had just started my journey through the unknown, that is still going on today. Wanting to learn all I can about spacecrafts, planets, asteroids, and the many other things around us. From some of the first spacecrafts, all the way to cool technologies that never came to be. Just like the Dyna-Soar spaceplane that was canceled just before building started. This space age style journey has been going on for more than three years. Over just three short space filled years, I have accumulated two telescopes, …show more content…
But October 28, 2014 is probably one rocket launch that I might never forget. It was on this day that the Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus spacecraft on Mission Orbital Resupply flight 3, would fail to make it to its target the International Space Station. All was going smoothly with the countdown, I was just laying in bed with my computer. I had planned that I was going to watch, what I thought was going to be a completely routine liftoff, then take a small nap. But boy was I wrong! Everything seemed to be going as planned for the first few seconds of the launch. But after that there was a bright flash at the bottom of the rocket, and it almost seemed to hover in the sky for a few seconds, then it began to fall. I shot out of bed, and ran into my parent's bedroom, they were just chatting about their day, and plopped the computer in front of them just as a huge explosion engulfed the screen. I was in complete shock! This was the first time I had seen something not go as planned. It was only a few minutes latter that the news broke on the TV. NASA continued to post live updates, for hours of any new information. No new information came from the press conference, it was just basically the same information. NASA ended there webcast, and I considered going to bed. But I knew that there was another launch at about one in the morning from Baikonur. I was slightly worried