The American space program alone has developed countless technologies that have improved and saved lives. NASA has had over one thousand successful spin-offs that include: Lasik surgery, Tempurfoam, improved kidney dialysis and water purification systems, sensors to test for hazardous gases, energy-saving building materials, and fire-resistant fabrics. When the Hubble telescope was launched in 1990, a flaw in the design of its optics produced blurry images. Three years later NASA was able to install corrective lenses and fix the flaw. During the meantime, astrophysicists at Baltimore 's Space Telescope Science Institute realized the hazy images Hubble created were similar to the ones doctors produced when using mammograms. The medical researchers
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To answer this question Newton developed calculus. Space exploration is such a valuable discipline because it ties in experts from every area of science; atmospherics, physics, chemistry, geology, biology, astrophysics, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. Many of these touch on the foundations of STEM: science, technology, engineering, and math. These also happen to be the fields U.S students are struggling in (Bennett, 2012). Could space help motivate our generation from the decreasing interest in STEM? If you ask a class of young kids, “Who wants to build the next space shuttle to take astronauts to Mars?” you will get the most ambitious and most intelligent students interested. They will be the kids fascinated by science, technology, engineering, and …show more content…
Mars, Venus, and Earth all had the potential to produce life, but only we did. Humans need to search Mars and find out why water no longer runs on its surface; something devastating happened there, and it would be vital to identify any signs of something similar happening on Earth. Then, we should probe Venus’ thick atmosphere to understand why the greenhouse effect has gone awry there, raising surface temperatures to 500 degrees Celsius. These planets are in our backyard, it would be foolish not to study them for the sake of protecting our Earth from their
To answer this question Newton developed calculus. Space exploration is such a valuable discipline because it ties in experts from every area of science; atmospherics, physics, chemistry, geology, biology, astrophysics, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. Many of these touch on the foundations of STEM: science, technology, engineering, and math. These also happen to be the fields U.S students are struggling in (Bennett, 2012). Could space help motivate our generation from the decreasing interest in STEM? If you ask a class of young kids, “Who wants to build the next space shuttle to take astronauts to Mars?” you will get the most ambitious and most intelligent students interested. They will be the kids fascinated by science, technology, engineering, and …show more content…
Mars, Venus, and Earth all had the potential to produce life, but only we did. Humans need to search Mars and find out why water no longer runs on its surface; something devastating happened there, and it would be vital to identify any signs of something similar happening on Earth. Then, we should probe Venus’ thick atmosphere to understand why the greenhouse effect has gone awry there, raising surface temperatures to 500 degrees Celsius. These planets are in our backyard, it would be foolish not to study them for the sake of protecting our Earth from their