NASA Essay

On April 11, 1970, so then Apollo 13 blasted off into space from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. The 3 astronauts called Lovell, Haise, and Swigert was strapped inside their compact spacecraft, which was perched atop of a 360-foot-tall rocket packed with millions of pounds of fuel to fly into space. The mission was to land on the moon and explore a hill section called Fra Mauro. Also, gather samples of the moon’s sandy dirt and 4-billion-year-old rocks. After 2 days since the launch of the…

Mud Cracks on Mars: A Sign of Possible Ancient Alien Life? If you asked a scientist what the basic building block of life is, the answer would be water. Therefore, when NASA’s Curiosity Rover recently found evidence suggesting that the Red Planet (Mars) was not always completely dry, thoughts of previous life forms come to mind. According to Nathan Stein, who is a member of NASA’s Curiosity science team, the most likely scenario for the cracks on Mars’ surface is mud. Evidence of Ancient Lakes…

this time. Some Americans were concerned about giving billions of dollars to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Money could be wasted if it weren 't possible to even land on the moon. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) would have to make craft launch out of Earths orbit and make sure it safely hits and lands on the moon. On top of that being said, they would have to make the craft before the Soviets do. Otherwise, they would be further behind in the…

Cunningham and the people of his crew, did not get honored with NASA’s biggest award, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. Apollo 7 was the first manned Apollo mission, but they did not get awarded with this award until forty years later. The mission was at 1968, and the crew got the award at Oct 17, 2008. I can connect with him because I usually don’t get recognition if I do something good in the house. According to NASA he majored in physics. I find physics interesting, since it’s the study…

unable to stay and it limited the information that the scientists had needed. It was from those spacecrafts that NASA decided to construct Galileo to discover more information on Jupiter and its moons. The journey to Jupiter itself was a hard one, with Galileo not having enough fuel to complete the expedition however, it could use energy from Venus and Earth to make the journey. NASA named this route VEEGA (Venus Earth and Earth Gravity Assist). Galileo would slingshot around Venus’ orbit (the…

NACA became NASA in 1958 (national Aeronautics and Space Administration). Upon leaving the Flight Ma=mechanics Branch, Ms. Johnson moved over to the Spacecraft Controls Branch where she calculated the flight trajectory. This was very important because this then lead…

African-American female during the 1960s. She is everything a person does not want to be during this time. However, she helped solve the calculations to send man into space. One of the main points is describing the mathematical method, Euler’s Method, NASA and Johnson used to launch America into space and back. The second main point is how math is able to unite people despite differences. This movie is more than just entertainment. It goes beyond by describing how math can break boundaries and…

The Apollo Program, led by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), had one goal: to land humans on the moon. “In 1961, President John F. Kennedy challenged the nation to land astronauts on the moon by the end of the decade. NASA met that challenge with the Apollo Program” (What Was the Apollo Program?). The program started with its first attempted flight in 1967, had its first successful flight in 1968, and ended with a moon landing in 1972. Missions 7 to 10 did not land…

have other jobs. Some satellites monitor for dangerous ray coming from the sun. Some satellites “explore asteroids and comets, the history of stars, and the origin of planets” (NASA I,f). There are also some that orbit planets, which “look for evidence of water on Mars or capture close-up pictures of Saturn’s rings” (NASA…

travel faster: Mars is about 140 million miles away from Earth, and the speed of light is about 671 million mph. In the movie, Watney has no way to communicate with NASA, so he finds and digs up Pathfinder — a spacecraft NASA really launched to Mars back in the 1990s. After a little hacking, he uses the robot to communicate with NASA using a replica back on Earth. A real-life Pathfinder replica would need to be "turned on and dusted…