Since the discovery of powered flight, man has endeavored to test the limits of traveling higher,

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.

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.

Money can never guarantee one's safety. Sometimes the cheapest of things can be the safest. In this article titled “Revolutionaries unbound: the greatest challenge is to go faster, higher and cheaper than ever before”, about the famous “Space Race”, it tells of how the race was suppose to be the cheapest and the fastest space flight in all of history. The authors purpose was to provide facts about how much money NASA is willing to spend on flights and what they can do to make it cheaper. Within this article, the author does a poor job at explaining their thoughts and connecting to the reader about cheaper and faster space flights.

Space exploration has come a long way from the moon landing of July 20, 1969.

Their worry comes from the fact that Earth is 93 million miles away from the sun on average while Mars is 142 million miles away from the sun on average. The distance difference between Mars and Earth means that at the closest point the planets will ever be will be around 50 million miles away and that only happens every 50,000 years [universetoday.com]. So that means that when we launch, the trip will take around 8 to 12 months. Even with are shortest traveling time, people think that there will still be a huge gap for errors. Maybe an airlock could break. Maybe we won’t be able to start orbiting Mars. Maybe they would lose contact with Earth because of solar radiation. All of these worries, and more, can be set to side; NASA tests their plans for a reason. The current testing of the Orion rocket is in place until we have confirmed plans that the voyage will be as safe as it can be. It will not be 100% risk free but NASA will be pretty dang close. To show how much time NASA is putting into this rocket, they plan to use it in future missions. That means sending people into deep space. In the end people shouldn’t be worrying about the voyage to Mars at all [nasa.gov].

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was established on October 1, 1958 as a way “to provide for research into the problems of flight within and outside the Earth’s atmosphere…” (Garber). It originally served the purpose of national defense during the Cold War but soon became engaged in a space race with the Soviet Union. While the Soviet Union was the first nation to send man to space, the United States eventually won the ultimate race when the lunar module landed on the moon on June 20, 1969 (Garber). NASA continued to send man into space using the space shuttle designed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The International Space Station (ISS) was developed to conduct long term research and determine the effects of near weightlessness on the human body (Garber). Their plans include long term or even permanent

According to NASA Orion spacecraft is built to take humans to deep space. It is like the ENTERPRISE but small and from NASA. Well it’s not made in the 23rd century (or it will).

be current NASA missions, what they do, their budget, and if the public should continue to put

Among all of the wildest things mankind has dreamed of, traveling among the stars has been among the top. Space travel has rightfully been romanticized into a fantastic voyage of discovery and adventure, but there is much more to it than what the movies show. Every detail must be considered when bringing space flight into reality, and that includes the dangers and how to safely dive into deep space.

For 52 years the United States, Russia (Soviet Union), and China have been putting humans into outer space. This began in the Apollo era. The Apollo era of U.S. space flight changed the world forever when they landed a man on the moon. However human space flight became the motivation for the race to

Now, nearly five decades after the success of the Apollo 11 mission realized Kennedy’s goal of “landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth”, space travel has dramatically changed.

When I was a child, I used to think that the idea of space travel was out of this world, some parts of myself still do. I’ve always believed that astronauts had a job more fascinating than anyone else, to have the luxury of being a part of one of the most spectacular feats in the world. It was a luxury not just given to them, but obtained through years of exhausting, strenuous work. I’m very proud, to this day, to be a citizen of the country that put the first footprint on the moon. Margaret Lazarus Dean, author of Leaving Orbit, and a NASA junkie, does an excellent job at opening the eyes of her readers to show the long hours, days, and years put into American space flight. After reading the book, the stories and experiences shared have helped me to more suitably understand the substantial accomplishment American spaceflight has made.

Long duration human space flight missions are the next big thing in space that have captured our imagination for years (Shaw and Weck, 2014). Though U.S. was able to send astronauts on moon as early as 1969, human space flight was confined to low earth orbit since 1972 after the Apollo mission was shut down. Attempts were made to move ahead in human space flight and human missions to Mars and moon were planned, but these plans never took a shape. The prime example is the constellation mission started under George W. Bush and cancelled under president Obama (Gates et.al, 2015). After the cancellation of constellation mission, Obama administration issued National Space Policy in 2010 which prioritize asteroid redirect mission as a path forward

The current (2016) record holder for the longest continuous spaceflight is Valeri Polyakov at 438 days, or 14 months [1]. The purpose of this mission was to test the effect of micro-gravity environments similar to those on a journey to mars. Upon Polyakov’s return, his physical and overall mental condition were deemed stable. Due to acclimation times, it was plausible that a 3 year mission to mars would have no hazardous mental effects upon crew [2].

We have dreamt of spaceflight since ancient times. Humans have developed and thought of many ways to acquire this immense feat and it wasn’t till the 20th century mankind were able to build rockets powerful enough to overcome the force of gravity. Since then, we’ve successfully sent mankind to the moon, rovers to mars and space probes deep into the reaches of our solar system. Nations have striven to advance and attain great heights in the field of space exploration. The constant competitiveness between USA and USSR during the cold war led to many major breakthroughs in the history of space exploration beginning with USSR launching the first international space station and USA successfully landing a human on the moon. The international space station (ISS) stands as the basis of how international collaboration can affect space exploration. Even though some nations are unwilling to work together, space exploration provides a platform for nations to form relationships that benefits one another and create beneficial relationships with each other.