NASA

“That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” The famous words of the first man to take a step on the moon, Neil Armstrong, rocked the nation in 1969. Prior to the first human landing on the moon, the morale in the United States was depleted. In the early 1960’s, the people of the United States were coping with the Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and civil rights for African Americans. Americans also felt uneasy about the ongoing Cold War with the Soviet Union and feared…

dollars and potentially could cost the astronauts’ lives. For decades, NASA has sent numerous of orbiters, landers, and rovers to Mars to conduct more research. This is one of the factors which has led to nearly 500,000 pieces of space debris around our planet and it is an environmental issue (Garcia). Lastly, sending people to the Red Planet is a political issue because it is a part of the United States government. Since NASA is a government agency, the president and other government officials…

and its instruments represent a $1.422 billion investment by NASA. The agency has put a total of $710 million to support the cruise and orbital operations phase of the mission. Other contributions include $54 million in NASA tracking costs and about $144 million from the U.S. Department of Energy in support of the radioisotope thermoelectric generators and radioisotope heater units for the mission. The launch vehicle, provided to NASA by the U.S. Air Force, cost…

In 1982, National Security Decision Directive wanted NASA to focus on making a fully operational space shuttle program. The program was to be cost efficient and have at twenty-four flights per year. By 1985 though, NASA had only managed nine flights for a given year. The shuttle they were using was nine-billion dollars, and wasn’t cost efficient as desired. Then, in 1986, NASA planned its largest number of flights yet. They had fifteen scheduled flights, one that would involve a teacher in the…

Why Choose the Moon: The United States race for space Description of text On Sept. 12, 1962, as John F. Kennedy addressed the nation, the question formed in the mind of the American people: “Why choose the moon?” (Nasa, n.d.). The answer to this question is far from simple. The arms race between the United States and the USSR was fully fledged, and America was striving to come out on top. Kennedy took the stage at Rice Stadium to persuade his country of the necessity of space exploration.…

Tyson, gave a powerful speech to a group of senators persuading them to fund NASA’s Mars science exploration. Tyson’s effective use of pathos, ethos, and logos conveys the message that NASA has earned their place in history and should have the opportunity to continue impacting the lives of our worldwide nation. NASA is something that has impacted Tyson’s…

right now. There may be a time when we missed our chance to delve into the new frontier. Last time NASA asked for astronaut applicants, 200,000 people applied to take on a one-way mission to Mars (Kavanagh). So finding people willing to leave the safety of the Earth are not slim. “Putting boots on Mars is possibly the most exciting thing humans will ever do,” Bolden says, who is the director of NASA (qtd. Chen). If more Americans…

To prove this statement, one can look at the fact that NASA needs good technology in order to communicate with the astronauts. Thus, they made satellites to enable long distance communication. The satellites have also led to ways for us to make better weather forecasts, detect oil spills, detect forest fires…

The documentary, MAKERS: Women in Space, discusses and addresses the journey and struggles of female astronauts, before being allowed to go into space by NASA. The documentary discusses the history of the U.S. space program and specifically focuses on women in space. Women’s involvement in getting to space started with the Lovelace: Women in Space Program, which explored the idea of women going to space that tested their physical and medical fitness, however this program was shut down in 1962.…

the most interesting and useful probes.The history, mission and design all make up curiosity. The history of curiosity starts ruggedly when the $2.5 billion rover almost met its untimely end with an audacious landing. Due to its cumbersome weight NASA scientists had to create a different landing plan that that of the probes prior to it. Instead of using a simple parachute system it had to get rid of a heat shield and eventually abandon its parachute to complete the landing with rockets. Roughly…