NASA Essay

idea of the Grand Tour was to send four probes to ultimately visit every planet in our outer solar system. In 1971 funding for the Grand Tour program was canceled in the 1973 NASA budget due to the federal budget reducing NASA funding and subsequently NASA focusing on the new shuttle program. To keep their dream alive NASA reworked their proposal and proposed two probes making long flights would be more economical then numerous individual probes heading to different targets. Saving money was…

Last month, NASA scientists confirmed current water flows on Mars. "It's clear that the Mars of billions of years ago more closely resembled Earth than it does today. Our challenge is to figure out how this more clement Mars was even possible, and what happened to that wetter Mars," said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters in…

In the 1960s, the United States’ NASA carried out the Apollo program, the third of its manned human spaceflight programs. The goal of the program was to achieve manned exploration of the Moon and retake the lead in the Space Race against the Soviets, who had beaten the US to the first satellite and human in space, and convince the American public of the superiority of the US’ technological capability. After three unmanned flights, mission AS-204 (named Apollo 1 by the crew, and officially…

want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.” After the loss of these three men, NASA continued the space program under the influence of Grissom’s words. NASA were…

Why is space exploration important One year ago NASA made there own twin experiment. Scott Kelly was sent to the ISS while his identical twin brother stayed on Earth. About 340 days later Scott comes back to Earth, riding inside the snug soyuz coming back with him is Mikhail Korniyenko. While kelly-the-Earthbound wasn 't really doing anything besides collecting blood, urine, and saliva for research, NASA is also been taking samples from his brother. And by comparing the samples they 'll…

Kowalski from Illinois, please report to NASA headquarters through teleportation, I repeat, Amber Kowalski from Illinois, please report to NASA headquarters through teleportation, thank you.” That was the message that would forever change my life. Everybody knew what would happen if NASA called you to their headquarters. You would get put in the “waiting room”. The “waiting room” is a top secret area located in the headquarters of NASA space center. NASA secretly chooses two people from each US…

predictions about when it is going to rain or not. Joe Munchak is a scientist at NASA who use this system of satellites to figure out how big and severe the storm is going to be. This satellite will help in hurricane situations so that meteorologists know what to prepare for and when it coming their way. This satellite sometimes will show isolated raindrops Munchak says that will lead to bad weather forecasts. NASA in 2014 got a radar that showed more in-depth rain results. And this radar…

whole landing to have been staged with props because of the lack of technology, the multiple light sources, and lack of stars in all photo and video evidence. Many people are skeptical about the Apollo 11 landing on the moon because, in the 1960s, NASA did not have advanced enough equipment and technology. Ralph René, a self-taught engineer and author claims, “there’s absolutely no way they went to the moon with what they had, in fact, there’s no way they can go today, there’s no way they can…

John Glenn was one of the first American astronauts, and also the first American, to orbit the big Earth. John Glenn is a person that showed all of the characteristics that an American male would have have. John Glenn always knew what things to say and when to say it. Everyone that John Glenn approached or was approached by was treated with respect. John Glenn worked hard and did everything that he could do to help the space program. I think of John Glenn as the glue that kept the whole team of…

Undoubtedly, one of the most tragic moments in history was the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. On January 28th, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after liftoff , killing all 7 of the crew members onboard. There were many theories about what could have caused the explosion to occur. One report claimed that there was a certain pattern with the smoke trail indicating that the shuttle ran into a jetstream. However, freezing temperatures hardened rubber o-rings on one…