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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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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Angel Vega Professor Szpila WRT 100 23 July 2013 The National Air and Space Museum Stimulating the Mind The history of the United States is one of the most important in the world. Some of the most popular sources of our nation’s history are our museums. The collection of museums that make up the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C had a total of 21.8 million visits by individuals in 2013 alone. The National Air and Space Museum‚ in particular‚ was the biggest contributor to these statistics;
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Space exploration- a good or bad thing? As the development of humanity continues‚ newer technologies are also made gaining us the power and ability to space travel. However‚ is this ability really beneficial to us? Is it worth the disadvantages that come with it? We have received many positive responses however; these positive responses are countered by overflowing numbers of negative responses. According to the majority of our readers‚ space travel is not beneficial to humanity and the main
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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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The Space Race was a period of time in our history that most people today know very little about. Beginning in the mid-1950s and continuing into the 1970s‚ the fight for superiority between the United States and the Soviet Union found its way into space. The Space Race‚ while often thought of as a not so secret competition between these two powerhouses to get to the moon‚ was in fact a public forum where they could demonstrate who was more advanced in technology and military force‚ and in turn whose
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In this information age‚ space exploration is playing an increasingly important role in the immense advances of technology. But in the meantime whether it is a blessing or a curse has sparked a heated debate. Some people argued that space exploration has opened up our world and added to our knowledge‚ while many others claimed that space research is a waste of money. Firstly‚ it is undeniable that the exploitation of space has directly changed our world. Space research has already resulted in a
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