Human exploration

The world of 1947 through 1991 was a very different than the world that we live in today. During this time many things events took place, including the conclusion of the Second World War and the development of the nuclear arms race. It was in the tumultuous time that the Space Race began. Each side had thought that their side was superior. In fact each side could really say that about themselves, each had their own view. Lifestyles of the American Astronauts and the Russian Cosmonauts differed in

The Space Race was a competition between the Soviet Union and the United States for supremacy in space. From 1955 until 1975, both sides battled it out to be the leader in the competition. Fueled by the Cold War and other causes of the beginning of the race, the Soviet Union and the United States fought for authority in a very public manner through the media. There were many achievements at this time and it led the way for many great things to come afterwards. The origins of the Space Race can be

NASA: Money Well Invested The October 1957 launch of Sputnik alarmed the nation and the western world. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was founded the following year in July 1958 by congressional mandate (National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, 1958/2012). A belief romanticized by pop culture and the media, is that NASA was formed solely to compete with the Soviet Union. NASA was a cold war response in a time when any amount of money would be spent to remain dominate

The Challenger Disaster was one of the biggest events of the 1980’s. It symbolized that space travel is a challenging endeavor which bears it’s own set of risks, especially when the entirety of the shuttle program was plagued with issues up until the Challenger incident. Initially, America put a ton of resources into the space program in order to achieve the goal of winning the Space Race. Once that goal was achieved, America’s space program was scaled down to a fraction of the previous budget (space

Setting up moon bases and settlements there so they can fuel explorations in deeper regions of

permit, if any? Can humans and Martian life coexist without disruption? These questions

Many people think that nothing more can be done with space exploration. The assumption that there is nothing more that we can achieve with space exploration is a farce. Space exploration has brought us many technological advances. Examples of this technology, such as GPS are now so commonplace that we rarely stop to think why this technology came about and where it was first used. Another technological example would be satellite communication. Medical advances that have been discovered because of

Curiosity in human beings is limitless. For as long as humanity has existed, we have prided ourselves on our discoveries, our inventions, our own ingenuousness. We discovered fire, created the wheel, and harnessed electricity. We made cars go and planes fly, and we acquired a limitless amount of information along the way. And each and every time, we patted ourselves on the back and told ourselves good job. Eventually, we decided that we’d run out of things to discover on our own planet, and we turned

Should space exploration be continued? Do you think that space exploration should be continued? Some people think that we should continue exploring the space, and others think that we should stop exploring the space. These people have their own reasons for it or against it. Either way, space exploration has both its advantages and disadvantages. In my personal opinion, I think that we should continue exploring the space because exploring space gives people many benefits. Exploring the space will

Radioactive isotopes are used for the first time as the power source for this car-sized robotic rover. As a part of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission, Curiosity was launched on November 26, 2011, and it was the most ambitious and expensive exploration mission on Mars in history. (Wall, 2012) Curiosity rover takes along with a variety of advanced instruments and equipment, planning to determine if there were conditions for life existed in the past on Mars or to search for signs of life in rocket