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For Apollo’s moon mission,American Government had to make huge expenditures from it’s budget and this was the first time in American History.Duringit’s peak years, about 34,000 NASA workers and 375,000 outside temporary workers partook in the program. Abe Silverstein who is the Director of Space Flight Development, proposed the name "Apollo" the reason was actually “Apollo” is the name of a god in ancient Greek mythology with attractive connotations and actually in order to naming spaceflight…

Expository Essay for Life as We Knew It One event changed their life forever. The novel Life as We Knew It by author Susan Beth Pfeffer is a realistic-fiction novel about survival. In the novel, the protagonist Miranda and her family want to survive the disasters caused by the protagonist, the asteroid that hit the moon. The lack of water, food, and electricity was keeping them from being successful. The severe climate changes, such as droughts and major temperature changes, along with…

Running head: NEIL ARMSTRONG 1 Neil Armstrong Michael Roembke EN144: English Composition Jayme Cook June 30th, 2016 Brookline College NEIL ARMSTRONG 2 Neil Armstrong Born August 5th, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio, Neil Armstrong to this day is one of our most known historical figures (Dunbar, n.d.). Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon; he took that step on July 20th, 1969 (history.com staff, 2010). On that day one of the most famous quotes were spoken, “That’s one small step for…

In the old days, many believe that we are the only living things on our galaxy or even in the whole universe. No one even bothers to look beyond our planet and explore the space for that matter. Though in Ancient Egypt, Babylonians use to study the Sun, Moon and stars just to generate a calendar for farming and religious rites but it never extended that far. Then in early 1900's people started to explore space and study matters beyond our planet. Edwin Hubble was the first person who introduced…

Humanity’s voyage into the great beyond made its debut with the vertical launch of the V-2 rocket in 1944, which was the first rocket to pass through the boundary of space. This was the catalyst to a large string of events that would eventually lead to many world renowned space programs to come into fruition. An often overlooked benefit to the space program is the myriad of new and improved technologies that seamlessly integrate into society. Many inventions, such as polarized lenses and…

The search for viable planets and moons for NASA to colonize may be narrowed to one. The Jupiter moon Europa may be next on the mission list for NASA astronauts. Leaving Mars out in the cold. Recent research from NASA scientists could have found the life sustaining evidence they need on Europa. Or at least under its icy surface. The study is encouraging, now that scientists believe that the Jupiter moon ocean has enough energy to support life. If so, will NASA astronauts find aliens on the…

For centuries, the human race has looked upward toward the stars in awe if the universes magnificence and wondered what mysteries it might hold. In 1957 the Soviet Union began the quest to answer that ancient question when they launched the first satellite known as Sputnik I. When this satellite was launched the engineers that created it never could have envisioned the progress the human race would make in just over 50 years. This huge advancement in space exploration has changed who is…

In the year 3036, it changed the face of mankind as we know it. It all started with humans and their eagerness to travel to space for vacations, after all it did only take two hours to get there and view all the planets was a fun experience to do. The human race tried to take over space as they’ve done before in Planet Pluto to be used for humans’ waste land. Little did they know greater intelligence were coming there way to take over their servants; but they did not have clue that the…

The Hubble Telescope Explosions ,death, and faulty equipment are only some of the problems that workers at NASA had to handle. It was a big challenge to get the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit, but there are many extraordinary discovers and boundaries that were pushed going through this journey. In 1990 a telescope called the Hubble Space Telescope, created by an astronomer named Edwin Hubble. Which allowed astronomy to grow creating more hypothesis and theories, based on information…

“Commander, we have a problem we're goin down”! Something has attacked from inside, the plant serum spilled and…” “Screech” This is the recording of inside the rocket challenger before its explosion. Tragically, about 31 years ago in 1986 the rocket challenger was launched purposely into space into space, along with it a slimy growth hormone for plants that were undergoing experiments, also a bird was taken to study the effects of space on animals. Later on that exploration the rocket was…