Kennedy Space Center

It’s official; Elon Musk and SpaceX have sent a car into space. In Cape Canaveral, Florida the world’s first car in space took off on its journey beyond Mars. Musk’s car, a Tesla Roadster was the fastest car ever in space. The car flew in the Falcon Heavy Rocket, “the most powerful rocket flying these days” says Newsela. If all goes to plan, the Roadster can go all the way to the asteroid belt in between Jupiter and Mars. Elon Musk stated that the car traveled farther than expected and the car…

the radiation environment of Mars using an energetic particle spectrometer. It has a 68 degree field of view and collected data during Odyssey’s crusie from Earth to Mars. A spectrometer inside this instrument measured the energy from two sources of space radiation, the galactic cosmic rays (GCR) and solar energetic particles (SEP). As the spacecraft orbited the red planet, the spectrometer swept through the sky and measured the radiation field. In addition, Scientists are curious about the…

Elon Musk is a self-started billionaire who's probably Earth's most future-oriented person. He started from scratch with his brother on a company that they sold for millions and now he is the head of Tesla and SpaceX. He was born in South Africa, his father was an engineer and his mother a model. During his childhood, he used to have blackouts where he would be unaware of his surroundings for few instants, he says that's how he managed to survive in this environment. He would read many books,…

grieving wife’s and later societies description of a wealthy, affluent, political prominent family dynasty known to the world as the Kennedy’s. John F. Kennedy, who was born into this world of privilege, from private schools, servants, and summer homes, would remain a recognizable and much talked about influence for generations to come. John F. Kennedy,” Jack or JFK” as he would be known to many, was an extraordinarily private and extremely mysterious yet unforgettable, and intriguingly charming…

Many people argue that this is a waste of money. If we stop sending human beings into space, this money can be used for other useful research in the science field including the depths of the ocean, which is close to 90 percent unexplored (Etzioni). The United States alone has a space program budget of over seventeen and half billion dollars just for the year 2015 (Rogers). In great regards many people question why we spend that annually…

artificial photosynthesis, the ability to keep the Silk Leaf “alive” is something to keep an eye on. There is no promise in self sustainability of the chloroplasts within the leaves, so this means that there must be a large source of leaves if brought into space. If used for architectural purposes, the Silk Leaf must be easily replaced because of its inability to self sustain. If used worldwide as Melchiorri has hoped, there must be a mass supplier of these leaves to provide considerable amounts…

Only fifty years ago, exploring space would be a daunting task. These days, humanity is much more experienced in this endeavor with the multiple successful missions doing so. Space exploration is the traveling through the unknowns of space and the research of extraterrestrial bodies using spacecrafts. This includes sending both man and unmanned spacecrafts meant to observe and travel to planets and asteroids. Currently, we live at the dawn of a new space age powered by technological advancements…

Space Exploration Humans always had a nature of curiosity. That’s what drove Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano to circumnavigate the globe. They discovered new lands and crossed new oceans. If they weren’t allowed to go on the voyage, then our history would be too recent. Humans would still be exploring and naming lands in later centuries, if such an event were to happen. This applies to space exploration. With the head start space agencies has executed, the future generations will…

Imagine life on earth versus life in space. I can remember myself dreaming of the day that I would be in a space shuttle, awaiting take off hoping to leave all my worries behind. Just as Tom in the “Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams, I too was looking for a way to escape my life. I have always been fascinated by space and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. As a child, I kept a collection of aliens, stars, and spaceships. Through these figurines, I was able to act out my dreams and…

launched containing a dog in it to see if a living organism can survive in space. Two months later the United States finally makes it a competition. They send Explorer 1, a satellite into orbit on January 31. They send three straight things into space, the Explorer 1 and 2 and the Vanguard satellite. The space race is dominated by the USSR until the 1960’s, and then John F. Kennedy is elected president. On May 25, 1961 Kennedy makes his well-known challenge to the people to go to the moon by…