It is human nature to explore one’s surroundings. People have never known what is beyond our world‚ or beyond the Earth’s stratosphere. Spacecrafts are the answer. There are different kinds of spacecrafts‚ like probes‚ satellites‚ and rockets. Satellites do not contain people‚ but they are built to send pictures and videos back to Earth. The Voyager missions are one of the most successful satellites ever built. The Voyager missions changed the way we explore space today‚ encounter interstellar space
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If Earth were to become too hazardous to human kind‚ Mars would be our backup planet. Just think about it. If people could live on Mars there would be more space for our population‚ Earth is overpopulated and crowded anyways‚ with everyone having kids‚ and our population is greatly increasing
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on July 7 in 2003. Later‚ they launched a second rover named Curiosity in 2011. The goals of the missions were to find out if there was water on Mars‚ which could support life there‚ as well as to observe the geography of Mars in case we ever put a human on the planet. The results from the space rovers came back as a no‚
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| | | | Should the U.S. 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
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When one thinks about Earth compared to the rest of the universe‚ Earth seems very small and then when thought about from a single person’s point of view‚ one realizes how miniscule a human is when compared to the rest of space. As the world moves more into the future‚ technological advances continue to evolve‚ but still the world has not learned a fraction of what space has to offer. Space is one of the most interesting topics in today’s world because it continually puzzles mankind‚ impacts society’s
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To humans‚ exploring and needing to know what is beyond the horizon is part of our nature. In July 2015‚ we watched the spacecraft‚ New Horizons‚ reach Pluto after nine years and three billion miles. As a result‚ we learned that Pluto is not just a giant ball of ice‚ but has a molten core just like Earth‚ and may have the right ingredients to possibly hold life. Although this sparked a possibility of life outside of earth; we should start exploring at our oceans first. It is part of human nature
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field‚ which was 10 times better than the images obtained in the previous observations (Young‚ 1990). Thanks to "Magellan"‚ the majority of areas on the Venus were observed. Combined with the previous observations and investigations from the USSR‚ human has a better understanding of the
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Understanding space‚ the untouched vast territory beyond our world‚ has been the goal of human technological evolution for centuries. In 1955‚ President Eisenhower announced that the United States would launch a man-made satellite into the unexplored universe‚ thus beginning the space race. At this same time‚ tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union were rising as the Cold War was ongoing. Since the competition between the countries was higher than ever‚ not four days had passed since
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The third of three NASA tragedies occurred in February of 2003. During re-entry after two week mission‚ the Columbia shuttle broke apart. A thorough investigation linked the cause to a section of the silica ceramic insulation foam that lined the underbelly of the spacecraft. The entire crew was killed. Lost or damaged insulation tiles have been a reoccurring issue that never escalated into life threatening status until now. During the investigation‚ NASA officials noticed that a chunk of foam
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Race". This all began when the Russians sent the first satellite into space in 1958 called Sputnik. Soon after‚ Americans did the same. The U.S. followed in the footsteps of the U.S.S.R. with sending animals into space. When they sent the first human into space‚ Yuriy Gagaran‚ it became evident that the race to the moon had begun. In 1963‚ President John F. Kennedy made a speech saying "We will go to the moon in this decade amongst other things‚ not because they are easy but because they are hard
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