Does it feel like there are too many humans overpopulating the Earth? Cause eventually the Earth will have no more space for humans and has exhausted its resources making life difficult to prosper. Well fear not, there are space companies like the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) and SpaceX trying to search throughout the universe for the possibilities of human survival. One of Jupiter's four largest moon called Europa, discovered by the Galileo spacecraft created from NASA, believed to contain water essential towards human life. The more reasons on why humans all over Earth should consider space exploration as one of the top priority, because Earth's resources would slowly be depleted as time goes on. Therefore, the use of space instruments to analyze evidence, viewing Europa's surface on the possibilities of finding water, the building of fuel depots in space to refuel spacecrafts, and information from spacecrafts are all necessary for human life outside of …show more content…
These robots, created in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, are required to handle Europa's rough landscape on traveling and gathering evidence off of its surface. One cool gadget is the nuclear-powered tunneling robot, it "melts chips of ice and spits them out of its rear end after sawing them off" then also "take samples of the ice core to deliver back to the surface"(Kelly). The off-road wheel robot is a type of robot has special wheels and suspension system to navigate the icy surface of Europa against its moon's geysers that, "may shoot ice or gas, are likely to have very loose sediment, or sand-like ice surrounding them"(Kelly) These robots are just select examples of how NASA wants to ensure the protection of their robots and the evidence of Europa's ice surface. Other than robots, the Clipper has space instruments that it will use as it takes multiple flybys of
This year I have decided to write about a topic that has been untapped for a little while. It's come to my attention ever since I've seen the documentary posted January 13 2016. Pbs special (where are we in the galaxy. A documentary about space travel the documentary spoke about current projects as well as not so current. ever since i little i always believe that outer space has made for the gods that's because back then i had a religion that i stood by the force of faith can really isolate people from something that we see every knight like the cosmos no matter how well you hide you cannot escape something as powerful as the grand pool of mysteries that is the cosmos people have always been influenced by that stars whether it's Galileo
Stars, mankind has been staring up at them for thousands of years. Over those many years dreams and mythology have been created to explain those lights in the heavens. Mankind grew sick of just staring, and decided to find ways to discover more about it. Eventually over hundreds of years mankind has, been able to send men to the moon, launch satellites into space, and even send rovers to Mars. These feats of science would have been unimaginable hundreds of years ago, and to others that heard of it was only science fiction. With all these accomplishments, it seems humanity has a bright future of further discovery, but a recent development has surfaced regarding Space Exploration. That debate regards the future of space Exploration, and whether or not It should be continued through NASA or private companies. Various opinions have come from all over the scientific and astronomy concerned world. Others side that NASA should continue its lead into the future, because of its contributions to discovery and the scientific world. Others blame that NASA’s lack of progress in previous projects has lead to a disbelief of Nasa, and a turn to Private industries due to their smaller budgets and recent success. Even some see a balanced future of NASA working with private companies, and even healthy competition that will allow a faster progress into the future. Mankind has always had the desire to reach the unreachable, and it cannot go forward
However, there is still much more to explore here on Earth, specifically in the oceans. Amitai Etzioni in "Mars can wait. Oceans Can't," explains, "Ninety percent of the ocean floor has not even been charted, and while we have been to the moon, the technology to explore the ocean's floors is still being developed," [3]. He goes on to explain how the oceans have a much larger effect on humans who live on Earth. For example, many people are concerned with the current climate and the oceans play a large part in controlling the climate. It is necessary that we understand more about our planet before other
Some people’s counterarguments saying that it’s pointless and it provides no benefits to us shows that there is a lack of knowledge about space exploration among most people .The ‘Space Race’ i.e. the competition to travel to the moon, was the first political issue that actually became a rivalry between countries. Everybody seems to forget that if we weren’t able to go to space, we wouldn’t have discovered traces of water on other planets such as mars- On the 9th of December 2013; NASA reported that there was once a freshwater lake on the surface of Mars, and there are still traces of water in its atmosphere. This ultimately means that there could possibly be habitable planets in our universe, in our solar system! This could provide a place to go if there in any supernatural disaster, like an earthquake, tsunami or even an asteroid as
The Space Race was a 20th century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States of America and the Soviet Union. This competition was held between 1955 until 1972 and enabled these two rivals to advance their ability of spaceflight and their exploration out of the Earth’s reach. The competition covered several ways in taking human life out of Earth’s orbit and to successfully bring them back home in the process. The Space Race brought about several controversial topics relating to how the USSR copied the methods conducted by the United States, how the United States retaliated against the USSR and the man landing was purposely staged or not. These factors contribute to a large extent on how the space race was won. The Space Race
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.
Do you think animal testing is wrong why and why not? I think it is good because we'd all rather an animal die than have a human being that has a family. I also think it is necessary because most animals share human DNA with us so it's easier to test products and other things on them. According to History.com Laika, the dog was launched into outer space on November 3rd, 1957. This shows that we used an actual animal first instead of a human. +7
The universe is about 15 billion years old yet we know very little about it. Exploring space costs billions of dollars a year, the cost is used to do different types of research from launching missions that go into space and explore planets or moons, or studying the stars from telescopes on Earth. Space exploration is important because it can be used as a great learning tool to find out more information about life on and off the Earth. The government should continue to fund space exploration because scientists have found water ice on Pluto, researched crops sustainable in space, and learned mars once had lakes.
Exploration is a key aspect to ensuring the constant and consistent development of the human race, but is it really necessary to branch out into the cosmos rather than focusing on the Earth itself. Expanding is essentially the ability to understand the unknowing and to grasp unworldly ideas, but without the means to reach those goals: justification, funding, and manpower, what is the point of committing funds to an unforeseen mission such as Space Exploration. Space Exploration is an issue that Humanity faces because it targets the what ifs about the future rather than focusing on the dangers of the present. Drought, famine, poverty, and war, will all continue to plague the world, and will remain tackling issues on present day Earth, and by using immense funding and manpower on what is not certain, is detrimental to humanities growth. Although, yes, NASA has created breakthroughs with innovations in relation to technological advancements, it is not certain that exploring space will ensure new innovations, because space itself is still theoretical and far too vast for ideal comprehension. Proper funding is mandatory for growth and expansion, but not important for the funding of Space exploration, rather it is more important to focus on pressing matters ranging from genocides: The Rwandan Genocide, to extreme poverty and famine: humans on Earth who do not have enough to live. If funding is granted to Space exploration by the public, it will remove essential funding to those
On September 6th of 1944, mankind’s aspiration to reach the stars slammed into the Earth in the form of the V2 rocket striking Paris (Britannica; Hollingham). The V2 rocket was a new sort of weapon: it combined the elegance of rocket science into the brutality of war, with it enabling Nazi Germany to claim thousands of lives. The man responsible for designing such a perversion of human ambition, Werner Von Braun, would later become indispensable to the United States’ mission to put a man on the moon. The moon project not only showed the vast capability of the US science program, but also revolutionized many fields of technology and thus bringing a new sense of pride to all mankind in human achievement. From Von Braun’s actions, a paradox arises:
In the early morning hours of February 1, 2003, some 38 miles above the Earth in the skies above Texas, the space shuttle Columbia exploded upon reentry. All seven astronauts were lost. For many, who witnessed the white trail of smoke and debris shower falling to the plains below, it was a reminder of the space shuttle Challenger’s destruction a minute after leaving the launch pad at Cape Canaveral seventeen years earlier in 1986.
No one ever said that space was not meant for us to explore, who is to say that the oceans were meant for us to cross into America? Since the beginning of time, man has been fascinated with the thought of the sun and stars. From the first step on the moon at 10:56pm on July 20, 1969 the sparks of curiosity of how far NASA can go have been wondered for many years.
Last week marked a time for important government decisions and controversy. Between December eight and December eleventh, President Trump authorized NASA to send men back to the moon, members of the Democratic Party publicly called for President Trump’s resignation due to allegations of sexual misconduct, the Port Authority bus terminal underwent a terrorist attack, and the White House claimed that Trump’s immigration plans could have prevented the Port Authority attack. Additionally, between December twelfth and thirteenth, the Federal Reserve lifted interest rates, the CHIP program is promised renewal, the House and Senate announced some facets of their tentative tax deal, and Doug Jones won the Alabama special election.
“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.” These famous words from the Star Trek franchise may mean nothing to you, but in reality that is how space exploration is for society, other than the Enterprise ship. Space exploration for years has been huge, ever since the space race began. On October 4, 1957, the Soviets launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into space, and shortly after the first U.S. satellite, Explorer 1, went into orbit on January 31, 1958 thus starting a competition between The Soviet Union and The United States. The powerful Hubble telescope is giving astronomers a look at galaxies formed shortly after the birth of the universe, bringing excitement and curiosity to all. Money spent on space exploration is in no means a waste, due to not only the inquisitiveness of the beyond, but in the scheme of things people all said Columbus was crazy but he proved them. Considering cost wise- the budget for FY 2016 is $18.5 billion
Humans have always been interested in space and the wonder in which it may hold. In the past, humans worshiped the stars as if they were gods while also studying their position to give them guidance for their lives. Their interested in space has fathered the desire to know more. Today, space has been seen by many as the new frontier or the home beyond earth. Society have even taken a step forward through the creation of stories in books and movies based of the idea of humans living in space and the present of alliances. Yet there is still controversy on the need to continue space exploration when our own planet has so many detrimental problems. There is an ongoing debate on whether not the money used for space travel could be better beneficially use for other causes. It is true that space exploration costs billions of dollars a year alone according to NASA current budget, which is constantly increasing. However, what many refuses to understand is that without space exploration many of the innovations that we have today would not have existed. While there have been, many failed attempts involving space exploration that has caused a tremendous amount of money to go down the drain. However, many people fail to realize the benefits of space exploration and the possible future it may