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Reading Response Recently I’ve just completed reading The Martian by Andy Weir after watching the movie. The book illustrates the story of an astronaut and botanist, Mark Watney, on Mars. Overall, the book somehow connects a lot to me. Being stranded on Mars, Watney has to be perseverant and to get through some hardships. However, it is more crucial for him to be adventurous. Watney, the only human being who left on Mars, risking his life for making water from “hydrazine” to maintain…

January 27th, 1967 three astronauts were put to test out the new rocket in the apollo program. Then, a catastrophic fire erupted through Apollo 1 leaving the three men in the rocket dead. After this tragic event happened, the NASA review board concluded that a stray, damaged spark began to fire in the oxygen environment leading the fire to spread quickly. This incident lead to many fixes and recommendations that were made to future rockets. NASA’s new space shuttle Challenger was launched…

January 28,1986, was a tragic day in history. It was the day that the STS-51-L mission was the 25th flight launch of the Space Shuttle Program. The mission ended as a tragic, the Challenger suddenly had a catastrophic disaster with only 73 seconds from lift off, the shuttle killed all seven crew members. The Space Shuttle Disaster has a rememberance memorial in Washington D.C in the Arlington National Cemetery. The national Aeronautics and Space Administration will always remember the day that…

One disaster could kill us all. In order to ensure that the human race will live on and prosper, Mars needs to be colonized. Mars will be colonized because of the fact that we need a backup because of possible disasters ,the amount of mining for valuable items would help the economy, and the location of mars and the similarities Mars has to Earth. Some peoples views on moving to Mars are not good. One opposing view is that the world is already in debt and by traveling to Mars and building all…

Death Trap,Mars Myranda Hickman, Hailey Hutsler, Cameron White, Adalie Giles, Davis Minton To live on Mars, to be left there to start a community on Mars. Mars is a death trap a one way ticket there and not one back. Communication never seeing family again in person or even worse you can’t get the satellite to work. The reasons you shouldn’t go to Mars and will leave everything behind and never to see again. The death trap called Mars One. The communication on Mars is a day late. You…

Everyone at some point has dreamed of outer space, and usually at the forefront of those dreams is exploring distant alien planets in advanced starships and making new discoveries that change the way we think about the universe around us. You may think that this is something of a far off dream or pure science fiction but it’s not. Thanks to the discovery of the first exoplanet in 1995 scientists are doing just that every day.. They may not have starships and be zooming around the universe at…

The “Doctor Who Theme Song” was constructed by an Australian composer named Ron Grainer in 1963. The “Doctor Who Theme Song” was realized by Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. This song is one of the first electronic theme songs for television. The theme song was originally written in an E Minor. The current “Doctor Who Theme Song” is arranged by Murray Gold. Doctor Who is a British television show about a time lord (currently played by Peter Capaldi as the 12th doctor) who…

Ever wonder how much Hvac has changed society ? Throughout history to what type of systems hvac has and how hvac can affect society is crazy to think there is so many things that involve hvac. Society lives through Hvac and does not even realize it . The start of Hvac can go all the way to the 1800’s. In those years , ice was being experimented in 1820 as a way to keep cool, then 14 years later Jacob Perkins invented the ice machine ("History Of Air Conditioner"). In 1902 a 25 year old man name…

gov), shut down the Space Shuttle after 30 years of work but flew three space shuttle missions before hand also in 2011 (space.com). In 2012 (budget at $18.7 billion), NASA carried out the very first commercial mission to the International Space Station (science.nasa.gov). The long list of accomplishments continued because of that higher…

Is mankind ready to inhabit new planets? This is a question that has been repeatedly asked during the last years. It all begun with the Apollo 11, which was the first step in sending mankind into space. Since then, the possibilities to inhabit another planet had been open. NASA has made missions to Mars, our closest neighbor planet, since not so long ago. Even there are plans to make a human colony on its surface. But, will it be possible? There had been probes on its surface, checking…