How Far Can Space Travel Go?

As humans, we are born with a natural desire to learn and discover. With space exploration, we are able to do just that. In an online essay called “Is Space Exploration Worth the Cost”, Dr. Joan Vernikos,

We as a human race are mentally programed to explore the unknown whether it is sneaking out into the woods behind your house as a child or going up into the depths of space. Curiosity is what allows us to think outside the box, and when we expand out of our comfort zones we discover things that help advance our race as a whole. There was once a time when space exploration was just a science fictional thought – humans were never expected to pass through Earth’s atmosphere. It all began during the Cold War, when different counties began competing with each other. The race resulted in numerous satellite launchings and the mission that brought man onto the moon; Apollo 11. This inspired so many in the rising generation to pursue careers in science

Space exploration has exploded in the past 56 years. From the first successful satellite mission in 1961, to the first mission space walk in 1969 a to the first time lettuce was grown and eaten in space in 2015. These are just the beginning steps towards potential space exploration and advancing technology to the maximum.

We know more about the moon than our own ocean. Space exploration has stopped us from discovering our own world. we are all caught up in the darkness and new doors to open to see someplace else. But i think we need to start discovering the rest of our own world. We don't have the technology to keep exploring space. If we keep looking, there will be catastrophic consequences.

The impossible was reached on July 20th 1969 when we sent the first man on the moon. The Apollo missions are the largest and most well known explorations that NASA has conducted. Ever since we reached this new high, our curiosity of space has grown even bigger. Funding NASA’s space program even further will continue to help us amplify our available resources and discover new information to benefit humanity. Not only that, but it could provide many ways for us to find a new home and expand our species farther into our solar system, potentially saving future generations. The expansion of this space program would be able to answer more of our questions than from what we can find here on Earth. Although there

My research led me to NASA.gov where they stated, “Humans are driven to explore the unknown, discover new worlds, push the boundaries of our scientific and technical limits, and then push further.” I thought that this was such a great piece

Our new understanding of the solar system and the technology we’ve developed through conducting missions has benefitted our society by helping us understand things about other planets, space, and most importantly help us understand more things about our home, planet Earth.

In the midst of grand discovery and development, space agencies should not lose sight of their ambitions, their intentions of furthering the human race. Humans have always looked into the night sky and pondered the origins of what they witness beyond the stratosphere. Due to advances in electronics, science, and other technologies bringing about the creation of rockets, it quickly became viable to send machines and animals and then people beyond the barrier of Earth 's atmosphere into outer space. From pilots to scientists, writers and artists, space exploration had already intrigued the minds of numerous individuals well before technology made these feats possible. The bastion that space travel has always had on the imagination clearly explains why experienced astronauts and dilettantes alike consent at their great peril. In the words of Tom Wolfe in The Right Stuff (1979), to sit “on top of an enormous Roman candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse.” It also possibly explains why space exploration has been a frequent and persistent theme in literature and art. Human spaceflight is worth the risks and the cost because it expands human experience, establishes international prestige, and creates opportunities for the future.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration also known as (NASA), was created in the year 1958. It is the leading co-operation in the scientific research, science technology, and the public’s interest in the aerospace technology. Also, since space exploration, it has taught people how to view the world, ourselves as human beings, and the universe in a new and more theoretical way. With that being said, Discovery has been one of the most phenomenal and successful Space Shuttles, after the most tragic and disastrous outcomes of the Space Shuttles Columbia, and Challenger. As I continue in my paper, I will discuss three landmarks events that I found intriguing to me and will later elaborate on the research that I have found about each specific

And through that, we created a new frontier, a new goal. We reached beyond our planet. “We explore for the benefit of all human kind,” Jody Singer, deputy director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville and a 1983 graduate of UA’s industrial engineering program, said. “This country, this nation, this world has always been explorers. It's really the heart of who we are and what we do. It inspires us to look around the next corner. It inspires us to try to understand. We'll always have that inquisitive mind.”

President George W. Bush proposed a new age in Space Exploration on January 14, 2004. The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster was only part of his reasoning for announcing a new direction for NASA. A reason not as well known is the current lack of any direction for NASA. Other than sending probes and robots to Deep Space and Mars, NASA has continued to

pushed us to learn and explore all we can about it. Now, with our Pioneer, Voyager, and

My personal favorite space exploration is NASA's Mars rover mission in 2003. On this space exploration to Mars, there were two rovers called Spirit and Opportunity. These two rovers showed that no matter what challenges come your way, never give up and keep going. For example, during this mission, one of Spirit's wheels gave out because of this; workers at NASA began having a difficult time maneuvering Spirit, causing to have to move Spirit backward. However, Surprisingly, Spirit's broken wheel actually helped make discoveries and not prevent them.

Curiosity in human beings is limitless. For as long as humanity has existed, we have prided ourselves on our discoveries, our inventions, our own ingenuousness. We discovered fire, created the wheel, and harnessed electricity. We made cars go and planes fly, and we acquired a limitless amount of information along the way. And each and every time, we patted ourselves on the back and told ourselves good job. Eventually, we decided that we’d run out of things to discover on our own planet, and we turned our eyes toward the sky. The Final Frontier, we called it, the last step for human discovery. We sent robots, then animals, then people, then even more sophisticated robots and rejoiced when they returned with knowledge and information about the worlds that lay beyond our own. And all the while a second frontier lay unnoticed, hidden in plain sight: the ocean. While

Look above, and you will see a sky with endless possibilities. The past millennium can be described as the exploration era. In merely one thousand years, humanity has managed to learn to travel the seas, develop automobiles, and innovate aeronautic machines. However, no other invention is as important as leaving the planet on a space shuttle. Up to the year 2000, the farthest humankind has ever been to is the moon. Ask SpaceX’s CEO Elon Musk about the current pace of space exploration, and he’ll answer with not satisfactory. Human beings have never been one to delay an expedition. Although many factors contribute to the advancement of space colonization, economic, medical, and motivational factors are the three main elements.