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NASA offered a contract for a private company to supply the International Space Station, ISS. The companies who were competing included the Orbital Sciences Corporation, Blue Origin, Boeing, Sierra Nevada, and SpaceX (Urry). It was SpaceX that received the contract and became the first private company to return from orbit and to supply the ISS. The company is also planning to begin carrying crew to the space station, and is working to significantly lower the cost of space travel, all while…

The brand new Asteroid Redirection Mission (ARM) has just gone under review from NASA, and it looks to be ready by 2021. We will see the agency try to get a space boulder from the surface of nearby asteroids and place it into lunar orbit. This isn't nearly as cool as blowing it up with a nuke, but it's a safe way to test the future of our planetary defense program. NASA'S ARM HAS OTHER PLANS While this highly-anticipated mission's main goal is to redirect asteroids, NASA has other uses for the…

by nearly 20 percent in 2013, as part of a new plan, contrary to what was recommended of the National Research Council. In January 2014, the Obama administration had announced it would try to extend the operational life of the International Space Station by four more years to the year of…

1. What is your challenge? The challenge is to create a video and visual representation of the habitation module that will carry the first human crew to Mars. 2. What is a hab? A Hab is the name of the spacecraft that will carry the first crew to Mars. It will incorporate complex systems so that it can provide for living people during the trip using the habitation and Orion module. As well as safely take astronauts to and from the surface of Mars and provide all of the system supplies,…

operate planetary spacecraft, and uses these spacecraft to orbit the earth and carry out missions in space. JPL is responsible for running NASA’s Deep Space Network by utilizing three telescopes to provide a view of space and communicate with space stations. JPL Robotics also created the Curiosity Rover, currently on Mars. This made history, as it was the first to drill for sample collection on another planet. This also led to another groundbreaking discovery - Yellowknife Bay, a geologic…

In 1958, Dwight D. Eisenhower was president. We were in the middle of the Vietnam War. We still only had one type of television. It was the box T.V. Our radio system was a little box radio with a long antenna. Fashion for ladies in 1958 was big poofy dresses and curled up hair. Red lipstick and thick eyeliner. Men would wear dress pants. Dress shirts under their buttoned up coats and bow ties. Always dress shoes, never anything else. Fedoras as well. In 1958 they launched spacecrafts into space.…

Dylan Jeffery ESS 102 4/19/18 Cut off from the Stars : Space Debris & Space Travel As time passes, humanity seems to inch closer and closer to the tipping point of becoming a truly space faring species. However, that momentous step in our evolution could potentially be cut off from us forever if we are not careful with how we handle the already growing space debris problem today. Space debris, in this context, is all of the bits of destroyed man-made technology left in space, some of which…

basically life boats on the ship. These pods help get the astronauts away from the International Space Station in case anything sudden happens such as a drop in pressure or life systems (Garcia). Some orders that command the International Space Station take mission control in Houston and Moscow almost thirty hours to execute because of the ginormous thrusters needed to propel the space station away (Garcia). This is also another reason why the escape pods are extremely helpful in the battle…

The Voyager spacecraft program started the worlds endeavor to explore farther regions of our local solar system. The program takes in hand the idea behind the Planetary Grand Tour. In which they would utilize the rare alignment of the planets in their favor, so that the craft would take less time and fuel, having the ability to visit Jupiter and Saturn. With the main mission, the study of both Saturn, and Jupiter, including the planets’ moons, rings, and atmospheric composition. Later, one of…

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, remains one of the most famous government funded programs in the world. This same agency put the first dozen people on the moon, brought the world together to build the International Space Station, and explored the outer reaches of the solar system. Today, the program does not hold the same respect as previous years. Combative politics plague NASA. It needs a new budget plan to end its uneconomical rocket program: the Space Launch…