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    atmosphere of earth. Some of mans greatest accomplishments have occurred in space‚ such as the moon landing. Space travel not only provides the delightful experience‚ but it also helps us to better our technology as the year’s progress. Although these are positive aspects of space travel‚ there are negative aspects that strongly linger‚ making space travel not so promising. As you may know‚ funding for space travel has cost the people in our society a great deal of money. The government has

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    SPACE TRAVEL 1. Only three nations have successfully put people into space: the US‚ Russia and China. All have been government programmes‚ developed at great expense. Now‚ a new era is beginning in which private enterprise will take people 100km or more above the Earth. _________________ 2. In 2001‚ an American‚ Christ Tito‚ became the first space tourist. He travelled to the International Space Station by Rocket and stayed there for ten days. A year later South African Millionaire

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    Government Support A Manned Space Program at the Expense of the U.S. Tax Payers?1. The Man In Space ControversyShould the United States support a "Man In Space" program? Opinions here diverge‚ with opponents and proponents presenting strong arguments on both sides.The opponents like to point out how enormously expensive manned space operations are with every shuttle flight costing tax payers some $500‚000‚000 and with the anticipated bill for the international space station expected to be $35-40

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    biggest achievements was sending man to the moon. Now‚ 40 years later‚ the United States executive branch no longer cares about moon travel. I guess it is just old and cliché and has been done before. So now President Obama wants to hand over space travel to private companies who are just going to compete with NASA for contracts to send astronauts to the moon in their "space taxis". The rationale behind Obama cutting funding for the Constellation program‚ possibly the only good thing George Bush did

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    TO WHAT EXTENT HAS THE INCREASED AVAILABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY OF INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL HAD AN IMPACT ON MODERN SOCIETY? In the last thirty years different societies have experienced a considerable number of changes in customs‚ beliefs and communication methods‚ citizens from Asia‚ America and Europe were more attracted to international travel and destroyed the frontiers paradigm creating an interlinked world. Currently‚ some international institutions such as the European Union‚ the Organisation

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    DIFFERENT PROPULSION OPTIONS FOR LONG DISTANCE SPACE TRAVEL for Jerrie Fiala Technical Communication Instructor Western Michigan University Kalamazoo‚ MI by Ian Mackey IME 1020 Student November 5‚ 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT ………………………………………………….......................... INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………….................. Definitions and Background ……………..…………...…….................. Purpose and Audience …………………………...…......….............

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    Do the benefits outweigh the cost for funding exploration and expansion into space? From the perspective of a sociologist‚ whose job it is include the origins‚ development‚ organization‚ networks‚ and institutions to study social behavior or society‚ funding NASA would be a wise choice because we could have space colonies creating many benefits for society and people. The article “Food‚ Leisure‚ And Social Life In Space Colonies” by Tom Marotta‚ a diplomat and city planner‚ made this position clear

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    Space is a frontier that mankind has sought to concur for many years‚ but up until now if the average person entertained the idea of venturing into space within their lifetime they would not have been taken seriously by most‚ if not all‚ reasonable people. However‚ within the last few months several events have taken place that may lead that reasonable person to rethink his position on the matter of‚ privately funded civilian space travel. All this is now possible because a few people who shared

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    step for mankind.” The moon landing was one of the most historic accomplishments in American space exploration. With the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union‚ the space race was at its highest point during this time. (The Implications of the Privatization of Space Exploration‚ University of Pennsylvania) This great achievement was a result of the United States government funded space exploration program‚ NASA. NASA‚ or the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics was founded

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    to look superior to non-communist countries. Thus the Space Race was essentially a competition between the United States and the USSR to see who could make the most progression in space exploration to impress the world. This Space Race however‚ did cost both the United States and the Soviet Union a good deal of money‚ but the cost of the Space Race was worth the outcome and benefits. Perhaps one of the most significant motivations of the Space Race was to ultimately beat the Soviet Union (“McNamara”)

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