International Space Station

issue with my family, I have just always been very cost efficient. After attending that university and several after to receive my PhD, I started my life as an engineer at NASA. My greatest accomplishment is my journey in the International Space Station. The 215 days I spent in space have shaped my life. After graduating college, I started working for NASA as an aeronautical engineer.…

Space Exploration: A Waste or Not Space has drawn humankind’s attention throughout history, and its mysteries continue to astonish. Exploration of any kind has brought forth benefits for the developments of civilizations. Space exploration, specifically, has improved the world through an increase of knowledge, advancement of technology, satisfying human curiosity, international cooperation, and economic development. Space exploration inspires a gain of knowledge, both scientific and…

In 2013, China became just the third country – following the US and Russia – to achieve a soft landing of instruments on the moon, landing the “Jade Rabbit” (or Yutu) lunar lander. The significance of this, and other China National Space Administration (CNSA) missions, however, has been the national reaction within China. According to National Geographic’s Michael Greshko, millions of people followed the rover’s activity on social media. In 2014, Yutu was believed to have failed after being…

that the SpaceX projects have encountered has been devastating. The largest, most impactful equipment failure that SpaceX has had to deal with is the crash of Falcon 9. SpaceX has a contract with NASA to do 12 cargo missions to the space station and resupply the space station. SpaceX’s…

Visions of space, time, and technological progress Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey relies on simple editing and sound to create an epic story of space, time, and technological progress. Kubrick sets the film in three different places: the African desert, inside a space station in orbit, and in space itself. When Dr. Heywood Floyd reaches the outpost station on the moon, Kubrick uses a wide angle lens to exploit the distortion of the lines. Such distortions make the station appear…

Eliza Taylor in the show The 100 displays the characteristics of what makes a great leader. The television series takes place a century in the future, years after planet Earth is destroyed and the remaining survivors residing in an international space station. The space station known as The Ark discovered that their resources are running out. In order to insure their future is still in sight, the leaders of The Ark sends 100 juvenile prisoners back to planet Earth to determine its habitability.…

flat and did not possess any idea of what lies past the sky. Space inquiry and eventually exploration technologically advance our world over millenniums. Also, the knowledge of existing on a nanoscale planet brought nations and cultures together to discover the answers to profound questions. As we discover more from our universe, what were once philosophical questions become physics. Though many will argue that United States’ space exploration is not worth the upfront costs, the long-term…

The curiosity rover is the size of a small SUV and has a “host of scientific experiments to zap, analyze and take pictures of any rock within reach of its 7-foot arm” (SPACE C). It was designed to go over obstacles and travel a long distance per day. The curiosity rover gets its power from a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (SPACE C). The rover uses different tools to check for habitability. One tool is a test that is done that the ground gets blasted with neutrons and when the neutrons…

Does Space Exploration Worth It? Space can wait, but our planet cannot. During the “Space Race”, space exploration was an important part of American History until 1965 when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first to land on the Moon. Space exploration has captured a lot of interest and still does with the Mars Rover programs and others. It is frequently a subject that leads to a large controversy. Do humans need to move to another planet? Is space exploration for real vital for us? There…

take a break and wait for the next big thing to arrive in due time. Musk denied the logic by spending one hundred million dollars on SpaceX (Vance 21). In 2002 his vision launched with the objective of his newly established company: “To create a true space-faring civilization.” The idea of traveling from other planets in a relatively short amount of time was the goal SpaceX strived to achieve. The corporation called its first launch vehicle Falcon 1, after the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars.…