Human spaceflight

buildup to and ultimate rush of making the Apollo program successful created the conditions for NASA’s first fatal accident of spaceflight, the Apollo 1 fire. The…

Space exploration has been known to be the final frontier to human exploration of the universe. The unknown regions that go past the sky into the stars have been of interest to the scientific minds. We look into space with telescopes and send spacecraft towards the stars to explore the vast regions of space. Unfortunately, to explore space funding is needed and that is where there is an argument to see whether we should continue to support manned space flights. There has been a lot of debate…

Modern spaceflight is something that is wondrous to many people. It is an important topic mainly because advancements made in this field could determine the future of the planet and the human race. The main question on this topic is who should be leading the effort to explore the cosmos, private persons and companies or governmental institutions? Although the modern day space initiative is being mostly spearheaded by private persons and industries, in my opinion, government funded space programs…

people and projects that played a major contribution in the Space shuttle program. One of the programs that I think contributed the most are the Apollo programs which are also known as project Apollo. It was in fact not the first program to attempt human spaceflight by NASA but the third and accomplished many goals between the 1960’s and 1970’s. There is one Apollo mission though that really catches my eye and makes me believe that this is the mission that made the most contribution, and that…

However, NASA’s funding has been all over the scale. With the budget being $16.2 billion in 2005, which includes the human spaceflight division, other engineering projects, and science which was all funded by NASA (curious.astro.cornell.edu). It spiked back up to $18.5 billion in the early twenty-tens (northeastern.edu), decreased since 2013, then increased again in 2015 (spaceflightnow.com). NASA accomplished many things in the twenty-tens with the higher budget rate. Like launching a rover to…

At the start of the 1960s, the end of world war 1 had passed. the calculator, artificial heart, and the first moon landing were all major attributions of the decade. The 1960s yielded many major technological advances from previous years. But with the changes, came dangers. Some of the major events of the 1960s were : JFK to win the presidency, The Peace corps is established, kennedy is assassinated, and man lands on the moon. Many more historical American events were to develop in the mid to…

That decision was also fairly popular inside of the United States, but it was definitely a complicated situation. During the Cold War, America was gripped by the fear that the Soviet Union would land on the moon first, thereby defeating America in the space race. "When you divorce it from the numbers and you ask people if they like NASA and spaceflight, people say yes, ... 75 to 80 percent are in favor." However, this was only the case in some circumstances. Not all Americans - and usually not…

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…

of space? Will it be spent doing amazing and inspiring things, or wasted doing mundane and unimportant things?” They are spending the money on all of the wrong things. They need to focus more on space travel and the future. Not sad muslims. (President’s Obama’s NASA Budget SHOULD NOT be Approved) Imagine 50 years in the future. The economy is trashed, and global warming happened, and not much people are around. Where are all of the people? There are not many places people can go, so where…

This threatened and in many ways confused the United States as to how the Soviets could have beaten them to these significant milestones. At the time, many of the people involved with the space program didn’t believe the Soviets were even remotely capable of conquering such feats. Jay Barbree, an NBC News space correspondent, said when referring to the Soviet’s launch of Sputnik 1: “People were so upset. They said these people can’t build a refrigerator, how can they get into orbit? How did this…