Space Shuttle Discovery

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has a difficult task. It must convince U.S. taxpayers that space science is worth $16.25 billion a year. To achieve this goal, the agency conducts an extensive public-relations effort that is similar to the marketing campaigns of America 's biggest corporations. NASA has learned a valuable lesson about marketing in the 21st century: to promote its programs, it must provide entertaining visuals and stories with compelling human characters. For this

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space. -John F. Kennedy Introduction On February 1st, 2003 seven Americans lost their lives while returning to earth after finishing a mission for mankind. These Americans were aboard the space shuttle Challenger that broke apart during reentry into the earth’s atmosphere and was completely destroyed. After an extensive investigation the cause of the accident was determined to be the result of a hole that was punctured into the leading edge

President Reagan read his speech in public with so much care for the people and their families. Some examples that shows that he cares is that in the first paragraph he says “We know we share this pain with all of the people of our country”. This part of speech says a lot because he is referring to that the deaths of the astronauts has not been hard on the families but also on the country. President Reagan wants the audience and the crowd watching to feel the pain and also the astronauts were brave

Hubble Space Telescope The telescope would become the indispensable instrument for investigations of the cosmos. Bigger and better telescopes were built all over the world. Planets, stars, and nebulae which could not be seen by the naked eye were now being routinely noted and logged. Such is the case with the fantastic discoveries for which the Hubble Space Telescope has been responsible during the twentieth century. Had it not been for the creation of such a monumental piece of scientific machinery

1. Space travel and exploration have many benefits, however, there are also some possible consequences. Space travel is worth it for many reasons. Just like the ocean; space is infinite and there is another world to discover so to speak. There are so many things that we don’t know about the ocean and space. For one, space is a mystery containing several artifacts, entities, and possible species that could have the ability to open doors to a whole new universe. There could potentially be life on another

Latinos in Space In 1959, NASA selected the first seven people to become U.S. astronauts. Including those original seven men, only 338 people have had the honor of being selected. However, it wasn’t until 1986 that the first Latino was sent into the great unknown, and another seven years before the first Latina began logging hours in space. Born in San José, Costa Rica in 1950, Franklin Chang Díaz spent his childhood days in a cardboard box with his friends, going through the rituals of a rocket

“Space, the final frontier (Wise, Star Trek)” The goal of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is “to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before” (Star Trek). Since the moon landing in 1968, the federal government has consistently decreased funding for space exploration, with the exception of a small increase in the 1980’s to accommodate the shuttle program. If NASA was shut down entirely the last 60 years will have

Technology Operation of space craft In order to launch a spacecraft, detailed calculations must be made to predict the spacecraft destination, timing of launch and speed to meet the target in space. The gravitational pull of other planets and the sun need to be taken into account. This gravity can also be used by the spacecraft to do a swing by or to be pulled into orbit. The Space Shuttle is the world's first reusable spacecraft, and the first spacecraft in history that can carry large satellites

The Hubble Space Telescope is considered by some to be one of N.A.S.A.’s greatest achievements, and in its early years N.A.S.A.’s greatest and most expensive failures but it is widely regarded as a great telescope that takes beautiful stunning photos During Hubble’s building many things went wrong and right. In 1923 A German Scientist named Hermann Oberth conceived the idea to put a telescope into orbit, Lyman Spitzer worked tirelessly to bring this idea to fruition. In 1968 N.A.S.A. announced

decimation of NASA’s budget, those glory days are over.Government funding for the space agency is at an all-time low, and the space shuttle program is being retired. No longer can the United States send people to the moon, or into space at all for that matter. The country that first reached the moon – the country that once had the most impressive space program in the world – is forced to hitch rides on Russian and Chinese shuttles (Borenstein). In many ways, our best days are behind us, and we have lost