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The Opportunity Rover and it’s twin the Spirit Rover received their names from a nine year old, Sofi Collis. She won the naming contest that NASA held (with help from Planetary Society and sponsorship from lego) to find a name for the rovers exploring Mars. Sofi Collis got adopted at the age of two. She came to live with her new family in Scottsdale, Arizona. "I used to live in an orphanage," Collis wrote in her winning essay. "It was dark and cold and lonely. At night, I looked up at the…

The Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) is another base providing a suitable habitat for simulations and research (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation). The geography at this isolated location in Hawaii is exceptionally similar to that on Mars. Additionally, synonymous with conditions on Mars, the area is largely clear of plants and animals (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation). The soil near this Hawaiian base contains minerals also found in Martian…

According to Space.com, Walter 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…

Flight has always been exciting to me and from childhood I always wanted to be an astronaut. Over time my interests have evolved, but at the center of it all is flight, the mystique behind man-made flying machines is one I have never been able to get rid of. This has been a great motivator while working to keep good grades, and study the. In earning a degree in Engineering I can gain a position in the aviation industry. The movie Apollo 13 further sparked my interest in spaceflight, I began…

A major theme in the Disney/Pixar 2008 Animated film, Wall-E is Utopia and Dystopia . Throughout the entertaining and informative animated film, Wall-E and the humans are faced with pollution as a major problem (Dystopia). The humans chose to leave the Earth and live in space on a Utopian space craft because the earth had become too polluted. The earth was polluted by the humans from using and consuming too much because they were encouraged to do so by the company ‘Buy In Large’. After the…

Some say there is a god greater than Hades, greater than Poseidon, even greater than Zeus. His name is Elohim. He is not just creator of heaven and earth but of the universe. He had a life and a family until a disease caught to their “Earth” or home. He lived on a planet larger than earth, larger than the UY Scuti. After the disease came, he sent his only child, Kyrios, to live his life, to do the greatness they never got to do. The Descent I had been in space now for what seems like forever,…

Mars has a very harsh environment not yet suitable for humans. However, compared to other planets in space, Mars is humanity's best chance at attempting to colonize. The colonization of the Red Planet is drawing near due to many different space venturing companies coming together. Furthermore to this topic, large debate is only rising since the opinions of many are strikingly divided. "Mars today, despite its subzero temperatures (on average -63°C), thin non-radiation and savage global dust…

Without a doubt, one of the greatest mysteries that the world wants to know is whether or not there was life on Mars. Not only this, but if we can eventually get life on Mars. Well, NASA's rover Curiosity gives the world some spirit that perhaps the opportunity of achieving this is possible. NASA' ROVER CURIOSITY EXPLORING MARS Curiosity has been exploring Mars for quite a while now. As a matter of fact, it has been since 2012. Just recently, a photo was surfaced on the web from this rover and…

Situated approximately 35 miles east of Orlando and with over 75 miles of beach along Florida’s Atlantic Coast, which stretches from Canaveral National Seashore south to Vero Beach, Florida’s Space Coast is sometimes characterized as a multigenerational destination, with incredible diversity from North to South. This diversity is evident through Space Coast’s designated towns: Cocoa Beach, Palm Bay, Melbourne, Port Canaveral, Melbourne Beaches, Titusville, and Viera. Its identity is drawn from…

space travel. NASA funding is shrinking, this year the Obama administration budget proposal for NASA was $17.5 billion, below the $17.7 billion budge from 2014, major expenditures include science missions, space ops to the ISS (International Space Station) and public commercial exploration development totaling near $14 billion alone. In the past NASA used most of their budget for contractors in designing and manufacture…