Space Colonization is survival of the human race off the planet Earth. Unfortunately‚ at the rate at which humans are destroying the Earth we are going to have to find another life sustaining planet very soon. Resources on Earth will inevitably run out‚ thus ending our tenure on Earth (unless new/different resources are used‚ climate gets under control‚ there is not a nuclear war/fallout‚ etc.)‚ and if we don’t have another planet ready for colonization or already colonized‚ the human race will become
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Is space exploration worth the cost? by David Livingston Monday‚ January 21‚ 2008 Editor’s Note: On January 11‚ the New York Times blog “Freakonomics” published a lengthy post titled “Is Space Exploration Worth the Cost? A Freakonomics Quorum”. The post featured comments provided by a number of people‚ including David Livingston‚ in response to the question. The part attributed to Dr. Livingston was just a highly-edited version of what he originally submitted to the Times. What follows is
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Black Men and Public Space Brent Staples Brent Staples (b. 1951)‚ the oldest of nine children‚ was born in Chester‚ Pennsylvania. His father was a truck driver who lost his job along with 40‚000 other workers in the 1960s because of plant closings in the area. The family was reduced to poverty. Staples had never considered college until a college professor took an interest in him and encouraged him to apply to a program that recruited black students. He enrolled at Widener University (B.A. 1973)
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Could space be the next commercial frontier? When you look up at night at the stars‚ what do you see? Many now see the sky as the next commercial frontier. When John F. Kennedy gave his well known speech regarding space travel on September12‚ 1962‚ he stated “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things‚ not because they are easy‚ but because they are hard‚ because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills
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mankind”-Neil Armstrong. This quote was said during the process of the space age in 1969. The Space age was a time period related to the three themes‚ space race‚ space exploration‚ and space technology around the period 1950’s-1960’s. It was encouraged by the United States and Soviet Union into determining that their own country is superior than their opponent‚ which led to an improvement in many technological advancements. The space race was a competition between both super power countries in a contest
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During the time right after the cold war‚ the United States and the Soviet Union became engaged in a “Space Race” to see which country could get a man on the moon first and ultimately claim space for their nation. The Soviet Union led the way by sending the first satellite into space and then the first human. On April 12‚ 1961‚ Yuri Gagarin was the first human to go into space and make a complete orbit around the earth. Yuri was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He became an international
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In her Experiencing Built Space‚ Eva Perez de Vega explains the fusion of subject and object in a sensational experience which relates to the body and also describes the notion of affect as an abstract un-representational realm. Also the unreliability of perception relating to the mind is due to its subjectivity resulting in experiencing built ‘space as qualitative movement; through notions of sensation rather than object-oriented perception.’ Today our social and cultural obsession with exterior
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” These are the exact words spoken by astronaut Neil Armstrong when he and his crew landed “The Eagle” on the moon’s surface. This “giant leap” led to many great expeditions that furthered the exploration of space. Because Armstrong‚ Aldrin‚ and Collins were very brave traveling up to space‚ a whole new perspective of the world opened up for the people of America. The best cause of the first Moon walk would be NASA’s goals. NASA’s goals were to first land astronauts on the Moon and and return
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Challenger Space Shuttle Explosion The Challenger Space Shuttle‚ one of the most anticipated shuttle launches‚ was the first mission to ever include a teacher astronaut. Christa McAuliffe‚ the teacher that was going on the shuttle along with six others‚ was supposed to broadcast lessons around the country from space. Sadly‚ all the excitement and joy came to an end shortly after the launch. The mission marked the first time American astronauts lost their lives. One of the worst disasters of manned
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Civilian Space Travel Whoa! People always look up at the stars and wonder what it would be like to travel into space. Space travel has changed the way we look at the world. Space exploration can change our lives by helping our ecosystem‚ promoting education‚ and it would also help our economy. One way space exploration can change our lives is by helping the ecosystem. In the article‚ Space Exploration by J.C. Pantom‚ it states‚ “The current earth population is almost 6.8 BILLION people. Arguably
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