Rocket launch

United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union launched Sputnik, an artificial satellite, which would orbit the earth in 1957 (History.com Staff np). Undoubtedly, the United States launched a counter rocket as a response to the Soviet Union’s display of power. The name of the rocket was Explorer I under Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency (History.com Staff np). Eisenhower also established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). And thus began the United States’ love of…

The U.S. military has been making advancements since 1786 until present day. They make advancements not just to weapons, but also to vehicles, armor, uniforms, legality, and present day drones. In order to make these advancements, the military needs money, and due to recent budget cuts it has been harder to do so. The U.S. Military makes these advancements to keep the country and its citizens safe. The U.S. has been making advancements and adapting since 1786 until present day. One of the first…

The theory talks about how aliens directed an asteroid to hit earth and wipe out the dinosaurs. So they could begin highly intelligent life on earth. I like this theory because it is something modern day explosives could do. The world has set up rockets that if triggered could know and meteor off course. If we have the technology to knock on off course advanced alien civilizations could have technology to know it on course to hit earth. That is why I find this theory so…

In 1983, Philip Kaufman directed a unique film that encompassed the culture of America’s ambition to push the limits. The Right Stuff is a dramatic film that covers the historic events of the space race in the 1960’s. The film begins in a bar, where Chuck Yeager, a celebrated war veteran, steps through the door and approaches the bartender to order a drink. He overhears a conversation about test pilots attempting to break the sound barrier and, thirsty for glory, he signs himself up. The…

The invention of gunpowder was drastic and life altering discovery. Gunpowder was discovered in Ancient China in the 9th Century during the Han dynasty, by an alchemist named Wei Boyang (A&E). Boyang was one of the many alchemists hired by the government to create an exlir that would satisfy the emperor’s search for immortality. Through his research he accidentally came across gunpowder. The alchemists “experimented with the Sulphur, common charcoal, and saltpeter heating the substances in order…

North Korea is perhaps the most corrupt country in Asia. North Korea’s government picks and chooses what the people are allowed to see and hear. The objective in doing so is to control the people and keep them submissive. While this is working out for the leaders of North Korea, the people are being manipulated into thinking that their lifestyle is the only way to be living. According to an Economic Freedom Snapshot, North Korea’s economic freedom status is repressed. There are 24.7 million…

Although I prefer to view NASA as a sort of scientific Mecca driven by fascination and exploration, through a rose-colored telescope if you will, that was not always entirely the case. Even after the dissolution of World War II, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union failed to waver. Our wartime feud over missiles with the USSR lingered, which then evolved into the Space Race for supremacy in spaceflight capability. On October 4, 1957, the United States watched in silence and in…

attention was focused on this issue, but in the NASA headquarters, they had other priorities; in 1957 the USSR, who was not only the US’s competitor in the cold war, but also for technology, launched the first satellite into space. The successful launch and return of this satellite, called the Sputnik, was a feat accomplished by no other country and effectively started the space race between the US and USSR.…

1964. According to Ajaun Peter, of Scholastic Scope, “The crash of SpaceShipTwo was the second space disaster in less than a week. Three days earlier, a spacecraft packed with supplies for the International Space Station exploded 16 seconds after launch. The ship, owned by Orbital Sciences Corporation, was unmanned and nobody was injured. But millions of dollars ' worth of supplies were incinerated.” Space is a very dangerous thing. The range of error is just as infinite…

Before successfully orbiting and landing on Saturn, Cassini-Huygens mission had to go through several hurdles. Firstly, due to sheer size and weight of the spacecraft, there was no present launch vehicle which could assist in transporting it straight to Saturn as it weighed close to five thousand six hundred kilograms when fully fuelled. However, on 15th of October 1997, from Cape Canaveral Florida, fuelled by thirty three kilograms of plutonium…