My Sci Fi Of The Earth Of A Space

Pollution is now out of this world because according to “Cleaning up the Space Junk” “the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA has estimated that about 22,000 pieces of this pollution are as large as a softball and about 500,000 of them are closer to the size of a marble and there are possibly hundreds of millions of smaller pieces are also floating around the planet”.Based on the video “Space Junk” “the fail of Cosmos 54 led to fear of radioactive contamination from its nuclear power packs and that then confirmed that space junk can and will fall to Earth.And smaller pieces travel at an incredibly fast speed 17,000 to 21,000 mph so the damage that little tiny piece can do is potentially enormous.All

Although space junk may seem trivial,it is in fact crucial in terms of today's concern over everyday life. Apparently Nasa has just been throwing it out the window into our atmosphere, which is causing a gigantic problem. Some experts say there are just some things like satellites they cannot take back to earth. They say that they would only do it in in rare cases. If they take the things up there how come they can't take back it down to earth. They are trying to find a way to bring the trash back.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is one of the leading organizations in space technology and research. In the past 60 years, NASA has sent numerous satellites, telescopes and crew modules into space. Despite drawbacks in launch failures and lack of funding, NASA continues to focus on its mission in space exploration and technological advancement. One of NASA’s projects is to explore deep space, in which entails a manned missions to Mars, exploration of the asteroid belt, and beyond. With these goals in mind, NASA has engineered new rocketry and even created a program to better allocate costs of such conquests. With these new advancements, NASA has created a new age of how space travel is carried out.

Neil Armstrong 's 1969 lunar landing was one of humanity 's greatest accomplishments. Since then, we have found that an infinite supply of knowledge and resources await us just outside our atmosphere. Today, however, critics are beginning to argue more and more that the cost of space exploration is too high, and therefore new technological developments should be left to the private sector. Whether funded privately or by the government, funding of space exploration is imperative because NASA is essentially the only agency with the technological capabilities to support aircraft manufacturing, air safety and air transportation. Space exploration has also resulted in remarkable innovations that has played a key role in aeronautics research, preventative medicine, and allows scientists to study asteroids, along with other space debris and their impacts on Earth.

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Space. The final frontier. There are approximately one hundred billion galaxies in the universe with many solar systems in each galaxy and many planets within those solar systems (How do we…). The Milky Way Galaxy is close to 100,000 light years in diameter(Diep) with each light year spanning 5.87849981 x 10^12 miles . In comparison, the earth is only 7,917.5 miles in diameter(Coffey). Within and on the earth itself, there are still great mysteries, and so it comes as no surprise that a giant area such as space holds so much mystery. One of the most recent fascinations to astronomers has been asteroids, meteors, meteorites, and comets. These space rocks are found

From the origins of rocketry, the only major contenders in space exploration were governmental agencies, while the commercial use of the Universe was limited to communication satellites. However, everything is changing. Modern developments like reusable rockets and nano-satellites drastically lower the cost of accessing space, starting the new Space Race. This Race, unlike the previous one, is accessible for all of us - and I’m going to share it in my Paideia class.

The European Space Agency estimates that there are more than 600,000 trash objects larger than one centimeter in diameter floating in space. A golf ball is still floating somewhere in space after it was hit from the international space station by Michail Tjurin, a Russian astronaut, as part of an advertisement for a Canadian sports company in 2006.

Asteroids are found all over space but are most abundant in the asteroid belt between

While the deployment of space weapons may deter other actors from attacking our assets, it does not completely nullify the possibility of an attack. Additionally, any physical attack on space assets in orbit risk the proliferation and cascading effect of space debris. If the US is to invest in the deployment of space weapons, it should do so in a responsible manner that minimizes the impact on space debris.

Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) may be the greatest threat to end life on Earth, and they are justifiably capturing the attention of space agencies around the world. Recent close calls with NEOs have caused many to put a great deal of effort into cataloging and studying all NEOs.

Space is infinite and many would think that there is room for our cluttered mess but that isn’t true, looking closely around Earth there is extensive amount of space debris. Picture a child’s room, and now imagine their toys strewn all throughout the room, it isn’t so hard to maneuver around, but what if the toys kept on pilling up until there was no way to see, you will bump into everything, just like this room, Earth’s orbit has a limited amount of space and will eventually reach its limit. It is a big job to clean up the debris, but if not done then it will make it much harder later for future generations. The ever-increasing space debris around Earth’s orbit is a global issue that should be addressed because it will eventually threaten space travel, ceasing functions in satellites, and rising financial costs.

Much interest in asteroids stems from the collisional potential of some of their orbits. These “near Earth asteroids” or “earth-crosser” are categorized into three types; Apollos,

In the 1900’s asteroids were referred to as “minor planets”. Around this time there were places in Berlin that would use available technology to compute the orbits of these asteroids. In 1957, scientists measured the very first cosmic ray exposure age of an asteroid (Gehrels, 1999). This is the time from which the asteroid breaks off from its place of origin to the time it reaches Earth.

Due to the large number of space exploration projects, a large belt of debris has formed that can be hazardous to other operational spacecraft. As engineers, we have an ethical responsibility to prevent pollution of Earth’s atmosphere. We have learned a hard lesson on the value of environment from right here on Earth. Trends show that the debris belt circling the Earth will only get bigger, and become more hazardous to spacecraft.