reality. I want to be a part of America’s Space Program. My interest in space and the space program began when I was a small child. Initially I was focused primarily on aircraft and space vehicles‚ especially the Saturn V rocket. My grandfather worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from the day it was founded on October 1‚ 1958‚ until the space shuttle program. He retired as Chief of the Shuttle Simulation Division at the Johnson Space Center in Houston‚ Texas in 1983. So
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Space X’s Falcon 9 Successful Historical Landing On A Barge; Elon Musks Reveals Its Capability Space X’s Falcon 9 made a successful drone ship landing on an ocean barge in the Atlantic Ocean last month. Viewers applauded and screamed of joy as the narrow rocket glided down onto a drone ship in Hawthorne‚ California. This was the fifth attempt. The Falcon 9 carried the supplies of astronauts in the International Space Station. It can haul up to 22.8 tonnes into low-Earth orbit up from 13.2. The rocket
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Will the Space Elevator ever be a reality? Tim Engstrom The Cost of Space The cost of shipping payloads into space is currently thousands of dollars per kilogram[1]. Rockets are used for this job‚ subjecting the cargo to severe changeable g-forces‚ generating extreme pollution. The cost of launching a satellite by rocket is typically between $50 million and $400 million dollars[2]. Geosynchronous orbits at 35‚786 km are significantly more expensive to achieve than Low Earth orbits at less than
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Phillips 29 October‚ 2013 The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in a ball of fire less than two minutes of launching resulting from a gas tank leakage. The disaster was broadcast live on broad day light news stations across the nation. The Challenger‚ as it is popularly known among all other space shuttles was the first to explode. America was terrified by the horrible incident as it was the first time US astronauts had died in a space shuttle flight. This tragic
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the Earth‚ we now look up. Man has only touched the surface on space travel. We are beginning to discover‚ what it has to offer us‚ from the discovery of distant galaxies to medical breakthroughs. Man need to be present for these accomplishments not a robot. Man has always looked to the stars since the dawn of time. Now that we have the means to break the bonds of gravity‚ we are beginning to explore the last frontier. Manned space travel is not a luxury but a necessity. We are just beginning to
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Through time‚ humans have dreamed of travelling across the stars to the exoplanets we’ve spotted far away‚ but such a trip would be very long. Even to travel at the current space speed record to the nearest known exoplanet would take 43‚000 years (4). All that aside; the main issue is sustaining a human population for that long‚ if it were based generation to generation it would take roughly 600 generations of humans before they arrived based on today’s current life expectancy (3). This issue isn’t
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Microsoft PowerPoint Project Date: 27 October 2012 Overview: In this project‚ you are going to create PowerPoint slides from a Word outline document. You will also need to apply a design theme and modify the slide master. Different kinds of objects will be inserted into PowerPoint. Your final document should be similar to this one (pdf. file). Note: save your file before you show the video; after you play the video‚ do not save the file. Tutorial: Read the following two articles before you
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China ’s Space Weapons Program and U.S. Security Name: Astronomy: Course Instructor: Date China ’s Space Weapons Program and U.S. Security Space assets benefit not only the countries that have sent them but all the other military from other countries as well by sharing them. However there are times that these assets have to be destroyed after they have served their purpose and it is the responsibility of the country that sent it out there to destroy it before it overcrowds
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people support space exploration Marc A. Thompson Ashford University English Composition II ENG 122 Rosalinda Ortiz October 15‚ 2014 Why do people support space exploration Why do people support space exploration. Man has to look to the stars‚ to find new resources that he needs to build new society’s on other Worlds. The expansion of the human race is paramount for man’s survival. Why do people support the exploration of space. First‚ we need to go over a little bit of history of space exploration
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The Space Shuttle Columbia was the second space shuttle disaster and the first shuttle lost on land happened on February 1‚ 2003. In this mission‚ six American astronauts and Israel’s first spaceman died when the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated 200‚000ft above Texas. They are David Brown‚ Rick Husband‚ Laurel Clark‚ Kalpana Chawla‚ Michael Anderson‚ William McCool and Ilan Ramon. Rick husband is the Columbia’s commander was a US air force colonel recruited to the space program in 1994. He
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