Long Distance Space Travel Is Becoming More Possible With Technological Advancements

The space race was an important time in history, for the U.S, USSR, and the rest of the world. Soon after World War II, the Soviet Union and United States began a global battle, communism against democracy. Space became a huge entity in the "war." Each side spend billions on besting each other's achievements in what later became known as the famous "Space Race."

October 4, 1957: The Russia launched Sputnik into space. Thus began the seemingly-eternal battle for control of space exploration. Who would get the first man into space; to the Moon, to Mars? Everything that could be done by either country was being done to give the edge. It soon became obvious to all that neither country was going to back down from the challenge. However, a lot has changed since 1957, governments have slumped, privatized exploration has taken charge. . . what happened? Where is space exploration going? Where is the human race, today?

In terms of the visual sensory area, there are sensory receptors in our eyes called rods and cones that help with color vision and comprehending the details of our surroundings. When light hits these receptors, they send impulses to the brain that provide a visual cue that helps identify the person’s orientation in relation to objects around them. For example—a person walking outside can see vertically standing buildings around them, as well as passing buildings and people in their peripheral vision. This is a key element in processing spatial information and maintaining balance. In terms of touch, specifically the touch sensors from the feet, trunk, and spine are responsible for maintaining balance. For example—increased pressure is felt in the front part of the foot soles when a person leans forward. Proprioception, the perception of where body parts are, can also be malfunctioning and causing a lack of balance.

Though our sensory organs may be working fine, environmental influences may distort our interpretation of the data the organ is sending to us. For example, we could look down a street and not see anyone and think it is safe to walk down that street, but someone could be behind a tree or other object. We do not always interpret sensory data correctly no matter what sensory organ we are using. That is the most important reason we should be aware that we may not always rely on sensory information. Our senses are who we are, without them we are left to isolation and our ability to think and learn due to lack of experience. Senses are our connection from the physical world into the realm of our mind. “There is nothing in the mind unless it is first in the senses” (Kirby &

The term “sensory diet”, was coined by Patricia Wilbarger and included an individualized activity plan designed with the emphasis on timing, intensity, and sensory qualities and intended to decrease sensory defensiveness (P. Wilbarger & Wilbarger, 2001). Currently, the term “sensory diet” is used by therapists to refer to interventions that use sensorimotor activities multiple times a day to facilitate the participants’ ability to organize sensory stimuli. For this study, sensory diet will encompass an individualized activity plan consisting of a variety of activities to deliver vestibular, proprioceptive, and tactile or a combination of sensory stimuli to facilitate sensory processing skills throughout a school day.

The Space Race started in the middle of the 1950’s, and it was a technological race between Russia and the United States to get into space and land on the moon. Russia was the first to successfully launch a satellite and launch a human into space, but the United States was the first to successfully land a man on the moon. It impacted education because it made more people want to become engineers, so the education system had to add more courses about math and science. The space race was good for the economy because it created jobs in all sorts of fields including science and technology. Many people were focused on how we would respond to Russia because we are the world super power. The impact of the Space Race was the race to get into space

Repetitive behavior may be a way to cope with sensory sensitivity. This sensitivity may also affect body awareness and the vestibular system.

Humans and other species navigate by determining their current position and planning a course to a desired goal. Navigation normally occurs in the 1-g environments experienced on Earth, but a new environment was added as the Soviet Union and the United States competed for supremacy during the space race of the mid 20th century. Outer space posed many new problems, including the challenge of navigating in microgravity. The first human in space was Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961, but the first reports of gravity-related problems surfaced with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Apollo program during the 1960s and 70s (Homick, Lyndon, & Miller, 1975). With current plans for expanded space exploration, it

What would it be like to not be able to hear, see, touch, taste and smell? That is the question that scientists have been trying to answer with Sensory Deprivation experiments throughout the years. “Sensory deprivation is the deliberate removal of stimuli from one or more of the senses,” (Hanchett 1). Sensory Deprivation can be scary. Losing all of your senses and the idea of the material world not being at your fingers for just a second is a frightening thought to most. We all depend on our senses to keep us alive. We can look and see if a car is

Patients with a minor degree of reduced sensation or mild abnormal sensation cope well with the sensory deficit and are unlikely to benefit

The Vestibular Sense is the sensory system that provides the leading contribution about the sense of balance of spatial orientation for the purpose of coordinating movement with balance. Without the vestibular sense life would be very confusing and clumsy, there would be no sports, nothing that has to do with any of that. I mean you could do it but it would be completely different.

Homeostasis is the ability of the the body to maintain a stable internal environment despite changes. For example, “The body can control temperature by making or releasing heat.” When the body is making heat it and releasing heat it is in order to maintain the usual human body temperature, 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Senses is a faculty by which the body feels an external stimulus: one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch. A sense organ, or sensor, dedicated to each sense, sight (vision), hearing (audition), taste (gustation), smell (olfaction) and touch (somatosensation) are the five traditionally recognized senses. The five senses are located on different parts of the human body, for example, the eyes translate light into

Sensory adaptation is the sensitivity to a stimulus because of constant exposure to that stimulus. Due to your sensory organs, such as your eyes, ears, nose, etc., cells in the brain begins to work when they pick up a new stimulus in your environment. For example; if there is a loud sound around you that is constantly there most people find it aggravating at first. After an hour or two of hearing that sound you become use to it and don't really realize that it is there anymore. If the stimulus stays how it is during the time of being in the environment, the brain cells doesn’t have to work as hard.

Now, from a physiological perspective, each of us as human beings has what scientists call proprioceptors, which are located all over our body and assist us in feeling, touching, and maintaining balance. We also have fluid in sections of the inner ear that assist us in balance. The function of these two areas—the inner ear and the proprioceptors—are normally affected when drinking alcohol and can be blamed for the “spinning” sensation one gets when drunk.