National Aeronautics And Space Administration (NASA)

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is perhaps the most well known space agency in the world. Since its formation in 19581, it has pioneered in space science, yet is also renowned for its large budget. NASA has the highest budget of any space agency, $18.6 billion2 in 2015, the equivalent of every American paying $54 towards the agency3, meaning 0.14% of total GDP is spent on NASA3 . This money is spent on the ISS, sending astronauts, probes and satellites into space, astrophysics and planetary science research, maintaining and developing NASA’s space telescopes (the Wide Field Infrared Survey telescope searching for dark energy and exoplanets, the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope) and developing spacecraft2. Space exploration is an incredibly expensive process with one shuttle launch costing $450 million4 however NASA’s colossal budget benefits the USA greatly; the agency employs 18,000 people5 as astronauts, engineers, scientists and teachers and G. Scott Hubbard, former director of the NASA Ames Research Center estimates that every dollar spent on NASA returns $8 to the economy6.While this figure is an estimate, it demonstrates NASA’s worth and capacity for money making. NASA works on pioneering research and as its patents and licenses return to the US treasury, it

I have been researching my future job and here is what I found. Becoming an astronaut is genuinely difficult on the grounds that they want you to at least have a bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics. NASA wants people with at least three years of experience. You need an extremely well physical condition comparable to 20/20 vision with or without corrective lenses. A blood pressure no more than 140/90 in a sitting position. You also need to have a height between 62 and 75 inches.

I do mostly agree with the filmmakers’ thesis.  It is obvious that the government was lying and misleading the people of the U.S. regarding the ability to survive nuclear war.  I don’t think that it was entirely right that the government lied to the U.S. people.  I don’t believe it was the government’s place or choice to withhold such important information. Citizens have a right to know, but in cases, it's better for them to not know to prevent riots and episodes of mass hysteria.  If the citizens had known all the facts about the horrible consequences of a nuclear war, there might have been more opposition to the continuing

“If you wanted to create a diabolical problem, it is hard to imagine doing it better than releasing CO2 into the atmosphere” (Newell and Pitman 1007).

U.S. intelligence agency within the Department of Defense that is responsible for cryptographic and communications intelligence and security. Its headquarters are in Fort Meade, Maryland. The NSA grew out of the communications intelligence activities of U.S. military units during World War II. It was established in 1952 by a presidential directive from Harry S. Truman in which he specified its mission as to provide an effective, unified organization and control of the communications intelligence activities of the United States conducted against foreign governments, to provide for integrated operational policies and procedures pertaining thereto.

My main interest in writing a research paper about space sparked from the retirement of the Space Shuttle, in which thousands of workers lost their jobs and other individuals where forced to move away to different locations across the United States to find work. I will be focusing on the obstacles that National Aeronautic Space Administration (NASA) and Kennedy Space Center are presented with from the view points of many different angles. I have discovered many interesting facts and sources regarding my topic and realize that there is still so much to be learned.

For over fifty years, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, has studied the outer space and how to get there. NASA was founded in 1958 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. NASA basically branched out from another administration which was called the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, or NACA. There are different bases spread out throughout the country, but the NASA headquarters are in Washington. NASA has an administrator who handles giving speeches and informing the press on new information. The administrator of NASA is Charles F. Bolden (About NASA).The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has many purposes that have resulted in various missions that require the unique skills of astronauts.

National aeronautics and space administration, this is the complicated way of saying NASA. NASA was created by government officials in the year 1958, the main goal of this government establishment is to explore space and aeronautics. Although those are the main goals the main responsibility of NASA is to conduct research peacefully that will help mankind to excel in the future. Although Florida is known for tourist attractions such as Disney and its beaches there would be nothing exciting about them if it weren’t for the NASA spaceport near Cape Canaveral. This spaceport has had positive impacts on Florida and is still a popular tourist site today.

In the 2017 fiscal year (Oct. 2016-Sept. 2017), the budget for NASA was 19 billion US dollars [1]. However, the total budget for the United States in 2017 is 3,650 billion US dollars [2] making the NASA budget only .52% of the United States budget for the 2017 fiscal year. Even though 19 billion US dollars seem like a large amount of money, in comparison to 1966, the height of the Apollo mission, the budget for NASA was 5.9 billion United States dollars [3] which was .83% of the National budget of 708 billion dollars [4]. Also, with the 122 million citizens [5] reported to pay federal taxes in the United States, each taxpayer only contributes about $12.98 a month to NASA, so if NASA were to disappear, the average taxpayer could afford

Movies are made to entertain and numerous times the filmmakers, no matter how fully equipped the film industry with all possible outside resources, scientifically and historically, to make the scenes in movies more interesting and selling, they tend to exaggerate the movies to the point of absurdity. The exaggeration may work to people with no strong scientific background related to the particular scenes, but for the ones who knows and intimately close to the scientific world will find it comical. There are numbers of movies are produced in such of pretentious efforts as pseudoscience.

NASA’s problems with funding that caused the failure of the Landsat commercialization continued into the future, causing an increase in dependence on foreign and commercial launch vehicles. NASA continued the downward trend of its funding, into the 1990s, even after seeing a brief jump during the Bush administration. (Kring) From 1962, NASA had provided the framework for commercial companies to enter into the world of spaceflight, when Kennedy signed into law the Communications Satellite Act of 1962. (Communications Satellite Act of 1962) This act provided the framework for private companies to design, manufacture, and operate their own satellites, while still only offering their launch services on the Saturn V, THOR, Atlas, and Antares rockets.

Things alter in the 21st century when two presidential administrations made fateful decisions based on NASA. The first was in 2004 during President George W. Bush announcement on the “Vision for Space Exploration“. This involves the retirement of the Space Shuttle and developing a new class of launchers that could take humans back to the Moon by 2020 – known as the Constellation

     The movie contained some good scientific information. It mentioned the concept of the black hole, a collapsed dead star that has so much gravity it acts like a huge vacuum cleaner sucking everything (dust, light, and time). It also demonstrated that a liquid hydrogen bomb would send a shock wave under water and after the shockwave passes everything would be pulled back in toward the source.

Many discoveries are still to be made in space and NASA has many new projects. They are designing technology to send people to Mars or even asteroids. Therefor, a lot of money is being spent on these projects. NASA is also developing new robots to launch up into space. However, the technological advances will further our knowledge in the space world.

The NASA had attempted to developed it for the space program, but were rejected by low power, reliability and noise problems, however this is not the end of its future. Manufacturies in China had reduced the cost for production, it became more accessible for consumers. Also gas cooktops are possibly replaced by induction cooktops due to the limited fuel resources and environmental issues.