Human spaceflight

PLANS While this highly-anticipated mission's main goal is to redirect asteroids, NASA has other uses for the technology in mind. If proven successful, ARM will demonstrate the much-need technologies that we would need for the hopeful placement of humans on Mars. For this, NASA has a phased approach strategy to all their in-space objectives. ARM is certainly no exception. The first phase begins with identifying asteroids. from there, the redirect mission takes up phase two. Phase three and…

The space sector is an increasingly complex and competitive operating environment. They contend with daily economic uncertainty, shifting regulations and the increasingly complex demands of meeting their agency objectives. Today, space technologies are important to daily life, contributing to knowledge of our universe, enhancing national security, and provide guidance when natural disasters occur. However, many emerging nations and private corporations are creating an increasingly complex…

But Cruz's first meetings with NASA workers in a Space committee gathering showed a more aggressive part about him. Cruz and Sen. Cory Gardner made clear quite that for them, the main mission of NASA's space exploration, not any of their other scientific pursuits, like monitoring climate change from space and certain things that other countries may have not discovered. It will be more difficult to put people in space if sea levels rise states Senator Bill Nelson of (Florida), of which is one of…

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, or JPL, is a federally funded research and development center that managed by CalTech and works closely with NASA. It functions to build and 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…

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.…

Pluto-the planet, not the dog- has become an overnight sensation. Everyone is talking about Pluto and how much we’re about to learn, thanks to New Horizons. Next week, the spacecraft will be closer than it’s ever been to the ex-planet. Journalist are personifying the planet when captioning photos taken of it and its moons. For example, one photo was captioned “Pluto Poses with Largest Moon in Family Photo”, giving the planet the skills of a model. Space exploration is becoming more and more…

We Have Liftoff The Space Shuttle has been grounded. This has led some people to believe that manned space exploration has ended. I do not believe this is true. I believe that the commercial sector needs to take the reins to further advance the field of space exploration. Engineers will play a key role in this endeavor. This is especially true if we plan to probe even deeper into the last frontier. The government has done its job and I believe it was time for NASA to step down. NASA did an…

Literacy Initiative Assignment Space travel is currently and will continue to be the pinnacle of man’s scientific and technological achievement. Born out of countless hours of chalkboard math and innumerable successes and failures, space flight is truly amazing. So far, the high point of our space travel is the International Space Station, or the ISS. This space station is continually maintained through the hardworking men and women of NASA and Roscosmos, from The United States and Russia,…

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…

Throughout the exploration of space, there are many people who has contributed to space. Katherine Johnson is one of those people. At the age of 10 she was a freshman in high school. By the time she was 18 she has graduated from college. Katherine Johnson has contributed to space by being one of the first African Americans to been hired to work in the guidance and navigation department; help with the Apollo 11 mission; also find the flight paths. In space calculation are a very important…