Mars Blackmon

Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles      If the Martian Chronicles had been written in the 1999’s instead of fifty years ago, many issues and problems would change. Ray Bradbury wrote his book in 1946. In it he wrote about problems such as censorship, man’s cruelty to man, and loneliness. Each issue shows up in one or two of his chronicles. All of his issues affect every one of his characters in many different ways.      Censorship is a main problem or issue today, and in the book it shows

following resolution which was referred to the Committee on NASA’s budget _____________________________________________________________________ NASA has accomplished many things in the last fifty five years of it’s existence, such as the Apollo programs, Mars missions, developing the proficiency in which aircraft flies, etc. NASA has tremendous benefits towards the future expansion and development of the United States and even the world. The NASA budget should be increased. NASA’s current budget is

New Horizons and Its Mission The New Horizons space probe is an interesting piece of technology. We’ve sent this probe into the depths of space, farther than any other probe has traveled. This probe survived the asteroid belt, is surviving the Kuiper belt, and it was able to complete it’s mission. We know more about Pluto now than we ever have. New Horizons will continue to explore space and send us discoveries that it has made. NASA uses a variety of rockets for every launch. The rocket New Horizons

Extraterrestrial Life Humanity has gazed at the star laden sky since the dawn of time, and one question has been asked with great frequency, are we alone in the universe? While humankind may never discover bipedal humanoid life forms as portrayed on the movie screen, the chance that microorganisms, bacteria, or other small forms of extraterrestrial life are greater than many think. This essay will explore what scientists search for, how they search, present sources who favor the possibility of life

Link Between Worlds A multitude of topics exist in the modern world about the issues of politics, of scientific standpoints, of religious statuses, and even those of freedom. The topic of life on other planets has had its fair share of publicity. Stories of personal experiences, sightings, and encounters have navigated its way into the thoughts of an innumerable amount of people. Newsweek, reports on a poll that more than half of Americans believe in the existence of intelligent aliens. What does

On April 21st, 2050, spacecraft Reacher launched out of Houston, Texas. On board was four crew members, each with an extremely important role in the mission; to create a research facility on Europa, one of Jupiter’s many moons. Europa is one of the few places in the entire solar system that scientists predict can support life, due to its tidal fluxing and underground ocean. The mission consisted of four astronauts, lead by Gordon Walker, the Commanding Officer of this mission. Gordon grew up in

ultra violet detector which has a pure molecular gas filled hydrogen and deuterium cells weighing about 1.5kgs. The LAP would be normally operated in the range of 3000 km before and after Mars perimeter. It measures the proportion of deuterium and hydrogen from Lyman-alpha emissions. Its main function is study the Mars

on their radios for 5 minutes every hour on the hour. The were asked to do this so that astronomers could use a powerful radio receiver strapped to a dirigible floating two miles up to listen for any potential radio signals coming from mars. The red planet aka (mars) was closer to Earth than any other time in this past century, they had heard nothing. The silence is depressing for alien hunters, but hope is still there. Our galaxy is a very large place, it’s so big that we haven’t spent that much

Humans on Mars? For multiple years, humans embarking space has been a hot and widespread topic. We have never landed upon the surface of Mars in all of our astronomical experiments, but in the 2030s, NASA desires to send ordinary astronauts to Mars to potentially inhabit the planet and start a new colony on another planet, other than Earth. Also in the next few years, a program by the name of SpaceX wants to send ordinary and untrained humans to fly around the moon in a spaceship. Mars has not

“All Summer in a Day” Picture yourself on planet Venus - named after the Roman goddess of love- containing no love for any differences. In the short story, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury it describes nine-year-old children that live on the planet, Venus. They are used to the fact that it has been raining for seven years. Every seven years, the sun comes out for two hours, otherwise, every day is gloomy. One of the girls named Margot moved to Venus when she was four. She used to live on Earth