NASA

In 1926 Robert Goddard created the first liquid-fueled rocket, but it was not until the late 1950’s and early 1960’s that the space race between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics hit full swing with the launch of Sputnik, the flight of Yuri Gagarin, and John F. Kennedy’s promise to land a man on the moon. In order to achieve these accomplishments large sums of funding needed to be allocated to the research and development of space flight. The US government has…

most devastating catastrophes, which took place on 28th of January 1986. The explosion of the vehicle started when the shuttle had some problems with its O-ring, and it wasn’t functioning the way it should work. The victims of this tragedy are five NASA Astronauts, and two mission specialists. The problem existed when the solid rocket motor failed at boosting its engine because of the O-ring which is responsible of connecting the parts of the solid rocket booster, which was not designed to…

My Day at the Kennedy Space Center Huge, looming rockets, each one paving the way to landing on the moon, and higher. Aall gathered into one place. - The Kennedy Space Center. Some of America’s greatest achievements are stored there, in perfect form. And if you can pay the price, all of these history-making rockets are unlocked to you. It was very bright out. And very hot. Even with the air conditioning in the white van, we all were still sweating. That’s because we were in Cape Canaveral,…

One of the premier techniques in persuading the government to bring an affect change is to write a letter to one or more of the members of Congress. The pleasant thing about America is this country gives us the right to send a letter to the government in convincing them to give us a chance to get what we want. We should to be proud of this since many other countries would not allow this to happen. My letter may not bring the attention but, at least, the government may perceive our opinions. I am…

What if that was filmed in a studio right here on earth? NASA is a very well known American space company that might have lied to you. In 1969 NASA was in a race to the moon against Russia. It is said when the US didn’t know if they would win that they should just fake it. Some evidence shows that it was filmed in a studio and not on the moon, the American…

In addition to being the first latina astronaut, she is now the first hispanic director of the Lyndon B Johnson Space center, and its second female director. She also has contributed much to science and engineering. According to Jason Roberts of NASA, “She is a co-inventor on three patents and author of numerous technical papers in the area of optical information processing,” Even though only 12.9% of engineers are female, she proved that any person of any race or gender can be influential to…

and capabilities of mankind, they pushed the boundaries and tested the possibilities of human adventure and exploration. The Apollo Program was the third United States human flight program carried out by National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA). The first moon landing was in 1969, led by president John F. Kennedy. He said, "Landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" was a national priority. His inspiring speech started the race to the moon. The crew was made up of…

Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to study all four of the solar system's giant planets up close. It is now exploring the solar wind and the sun's magnetic field dominate space but on September 2007 it crossed the termination shock it's where the speed of the solar wind drops below the speed of sound at 84 au twice the distance to Pluto. The purpose was to study huge planets, but now its to study solar wind. Voyager 2 was designed to take advantage of a rare planetary alignment to explore the…

We see that when Katherine is first meets Jim Johnson (her future husband) and he questions Katherine about women working at NASA. Men, at the time did not think that women we capable of doing other things then just being in a kitchen all day. And you see it again when Katherine has a new assignment working for Mr. Harrison, Katherine having to fight her way into letting her…

keep sending humans into space on smaller missions to observe the gravitational effects and health of the astronauts to make sure the longer missions are indeed possible (Crawford 95). Without a continuation of sending humans to space on missions, NASA and other space travel and exploration agencies will be unclear as to if sending humans further into space is safe or if it will be harmful to…