Jet Propulsion Laboratory

As a researcher for one of NASA’s top research laboratories, Brent Sherwood of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory strongly feels “the benefits of a manned Mars mission may not justify its enormous costs” [1]. It is instinctive of human nature to initially consider this risk only in terms of monetary cost. This is just a small sense…

switching oils and coal to natural gasses. Government can also set a price on taxing carbon, many climate experts believe that to reduce producing emission is to set a price on carbon. Josh Willis, climate scientist and oceanographer as NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said that “We should be asking people to pay the cost of putting carbon into the atmosphere as they buy the fuel,” Government could also protect the ocean by executive order, an example of this were during President George W, Bush…

experiments to survive. He has to figure out how to make water, how to grow food, how to communicate with NASA back on Earth, how to increase the battery life of his rover in order to get home. At the same time, scientists at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory do the same – using hard math in order overcome their own series of obstacles to bring Mark…

Neil Armstrong once said “I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.” NASA has been sending satellites, space shuttles, people, and many other things into space ever since they were first created, but sending all those things into space isn’t the only thing that NASA has done, they have also done as much as they can to help the people…

The information gathered and learned from the process of a space missions has led to several inventions. While observing the moon, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory enhanced pictures of the moon by developing a new digital image processing system. In 1958, the Congress established NASA, requiring all the discoveries the space agency made to be shared information. Hence, NASA shared the knowledge they…

Everyone remembers or has seen the historical video of the first time Americans landed on the moon. When we first hear Neil Armstrong’s famous words, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” People remember this day as when we made world history. But today, we do not hear about the space program anymore. The world that was once connected by the same dream has disappeared. Americans need the excitement that was there that day. Where generations of people come together and once again…

The American space program alone has developed countless technologies that have improved and saved lives. NASA has had over one thousand successful spin-offs that include: Lasik surgery, Tempurfoam, improved kidney dialysis and water purification systems, sensors to test for hazardous gases, energy-saving building materials, and fire-resistant fabrics. When the Hubble telescope was launched in 1990, a flaw in the design of its optics produced blurry images. Three years later NASA was able to…

Conner Broadway Mrs. Allen English IV 09 September 2016 Global Warming- A Hoax When the average person turns on the news, he or she is bombarded with new scientific breakthroughs from some of the world’s so called smartest people about the ice caps depleting by ridiculous amounts, penguins and polar bears being wiped out, precipitation increasing around the world, and the ocean warming and rising to unprecedented levels. Scientists and…

How old is our universe really? For years there has been a race to discover the Solar System’s true age. For thousands of years, people have thought the Solar System and everything inside it to be created only several thousand years ago. Whereas many people now days have discovered that there is a considerable amount of evidence to suspect the Solar System is actually billions of years old. Fairly recent discovers have brought to light that there is also counter evidence to disprove the billion…

NASA Overview The Mars Surveyor Program (MSP) was managed under the cheaper, better, faster paradigm at the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA). This corporate culture created an environment which challenged NASA engineers to develop innovative, cost saving processes when designing and developing projects. This paradigm did have drawbacks though; putting too much emphasis on decreasing cost, and failing to integrate risk management in their projects. Ultimately, this mindset led…