Apollo Case Study

The Philae mission caused an enormous effect in scientific research In November of 2014. The Philae lander is a miniature probe that was dropped from the Rosetta spacecraft on to a comet to help scientists research the many wonders of comets. The Philae mission was crucial for scientific research because this mission helped scientists figure out and understand more about the early history of our solar system and they were able to take many comet samples.

This activity is about the main events in New Horizon’s journey to Pluto and beyond.

The Mir had a successful trip in space and gathered information for many years. It reentered earth in 2001.

The mission called the New Horizons created a spacecraft, which is nuclear-powered and had the capability of gathering 10 times the data for scientific research. Another factor that led to the New Horizons mission to be the winner is that it only costed $250 million dollars. The New Horizons mission sent a spacecraft on February 2, 2006 and which is expected to will flyby Pluto by the year 2015. Astronomers were able to find three Kuiper Belt objects that are significant for New Horizons mission. The principal investigator of the New Horizons, Alan Stern stated,“ Astronomer Gerard Kuiper, who wrote a paper in 1951 about smaller objects that were farther away

NASA launched the Cassini-Huygens mission on October 15, 1997. Cassini was sent to explore the system of the planet Saturn. With help from Venus, Earth and Jupiter, Cassini made a series of gravity-assisted maneuvers.

Christopher Crokett says, “On July 14, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will reach the dwarf planet and try to learn all it can about Pluto and its five known moons. Then the probe will leave Pluto behind, vanishing into the frigid darkness beyond the planets.”

The Trials Of Apollo, written by Rick Riordan, is a Greek Mythology book. Often when individuals experience hardship they often seek to fix the problems that lay ahead of them. The topic given brings Confusion in our lives. Apollo is extremely confused about what he needs to do to get the Oracle and survive while doing it. When Apollo woke up to falling from the sky and then landing in some garbage he experienced extreme confusion on why he was there and what he had to do to go back home. Apollo then looks at himself and he got changed into a teenage boy. This illustrates that Apollo has no idea where to turn or who to trust which proves that he is confused. Apollo then decides that he needs to go to Camp Half Blood and then figure out what he needs to do after that. Individuals who face confusion often seek to find closure to their problems because if said individual didn't push past their problems they would constantly be stuck with their hardship without getting over it.

Mariner 10’s mission was arguably a failure. While the craft did get three clear shots of Mercury, all three were unfortunately of the exact same side. After Mariner 10’s mission, there was still an entire other half of Mercury we hadn’t seen yet.

Voyager 2 was launched a few months before Voyager 1 in 1977. Voyager 1 was launched faster than 2 so it over took Voyager 2. Voyager mission to Jupiter and Saturn brought Voyager 1 to Jupiter on March 5, 1979, and Saturn on November 12, 1980, Shortly after that Voyager 2 to Jupiter on July 9, 1979, and Saturn on August 25, 1981. Voyager 1 was meant to go to Saturn's rings while voyager 2 was supposed to go by Saturn right to Uranus. In 1986 Voyager 2 finally reached Uranus. Voyager 1 was going outward viewing planetary space. Voyager 1 is currently leaving the solar system on its way to the Asteroid Belt traveling at 320,000 million miles per year! They expect this great mission to last 2-3 more decades.

New Horizons still has many years of fuel and power. It will continue its more-than-10-year mission, exploring the primordial material of the Kuiper Belt. When asked by a young person what the mission will do now that the big event of the Pluto flyby has happened, five-time space shuttle astronaut Grunsfeld said the interplanetary spacecraft will—in a nod to Star Trek—“go where no New Horizons spacecraft has gone before.”

The data from the mission revealed new information about both Pluto and Charon. It was found that Pluto is only somewhere around 8 ½ times more massive than its moon Charon. On top of this, Pluto and Charon are only 12,200 miles (19,634 km) apart. To put this in perspective, Earth is about 81 times more massive than the moon and are 238,900 miles (384,472 km) apart. Because the differences in mass are so minute and because they are so close, Charon doesn’t actually orbit around Pluto. In reality, Pluto and Charon have what is known as a binary system, and this is the only orbit of its kind in our solar system.

Ceres has been an important topic in astronomy since the 1700s. Everything from the planet’s make up to what it is classified as has left scientists asking questions for centuries. It wasn’t until just recently, science has taken steps forward to not just observing the dwarf planet, but visiting it with an amazing space probe. The leaps Ceres has taken in science in the last 200 years have been incredible.

NASA soon responded with the Mercury Missions. These Missions put Americans in orbit and many believe was the real start of the America’s space program. This brought one of the biggest changes to the Nation’s space program. Every tool had to either be built or adapted from another tool to fit the requirement needed. The procedures and systems all had to be redesigned. After the 10 missions, NASA moved on to project Gemini, which concentrated on learning the skills to be able to descend onto the lunar surface. This included docking in space and performing EVAs, or extra vehicular activities, more commonly known as a space walks.

This mission’s spacecraft is the second designed for NASA’s New Frontiers, with the first being Pluto New Horizons launched in 2006. New Frontiers is a program focused on medium-sized missions that are of crucial importance to the objectives of the Decadal Solar System Exploration Survey. It focuses on the building of a solid understand of planetary science, with priorities set by the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council.

Since ancient times, the universe had captivated people’s imagination and curiosity. With the limitation on technology, early sky watchers were only capable of classifying objects they observed as either a star or a planet. During the twentieth century, with advancement in telescopes to see further into space with more accurate details, scientists were able to find numerous stars and planet like objects within the solar system. Scientists had no trouble classifying objects such as Uranus and Neptune as planets. However, the real trouble came when they discovered a planetary object called Ceres. Objects like Ceres and Pluto behaved similarly to regular planets. Because of the limitations on the technology at the time, it was very difficult