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SpaceX—The Future of Space Travel In the beginning there was NASA. Now that the government is trimming their budgets, private corporations are entering the space race. The leader in the private sector is Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX). This corporation started doing business in 2002 and have come a long way in the industry with the help and direction from CEO. Elon Musk (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, 2015). What makes this company unique is that they buy…

Should the government be funding space exploration? What has come out of the United States space program and was it worth the investment? Does space exploration have to be government run, or are there alternative ways to explore the universe? It is questions like these that must be answered when determining the future of space exploration. Despite the dream of space exploration being a peaceful one, the U.S. space program only came about as a result of the cold war. The program improved the…

perplexed by outer space. We look at the sky and for the first time in our lives, we feel minuscule. In a world where humans are at the top of the hierarchy, space seems to swallow us entirely. Space exploration’s origin can be traced back to curiosity. Exploring space not only answers numerous questions we all share about the universe, it also grants us a deeper look into the world we inhabit. Try imagining a new color. Impossible, right? We have the same dilemma with imagining space. However,…

The Space Race, brought many different inventions which are useful for many people in their daily life. The GPS was an invention the U.S. created after the pressure which the Soviet Union put on them after creating Sputnik 1. It was a great invention with good quality. At the beginning it was really hard to create this because there were only five satellites in the space, but now, it is easier to have better GPS due to the quantity of satellites there are in the space. GPS is an invention…

Personally I believe that we should have Space Exploration because we can learn, help, and provide information so that our community can have a better understanding on it. Many people have traveled into space and from just one trip we learn so much. Imagine if we continued these amazing trips we would know so much more. Most of us should know about president Kennedy’s amazing speech on space exploration. Many were moved by it and we continue to do it up to this day. To us this is an important…

tremendous advances. A use that not many have thought about is for astronauts in space. With longer human stays in space and prospects of long term space travel, some thought it would be a great idea to have medical imaging for the space travelers. Ultrasound was chosen because it encompasses a broad base of pathologies. In 2001, NASA integrated an ultrasound into the Health Research Facility on the International Space Station with the hopes of providing astronauts with diagnostic imaging.…

Have you ever been going 25,000 mph, fourteen times the speed of a bullet? Apollo 13 was just any old Apollo mission a least to the American people. Apollo 13 was a little mission that was to go to the moon and collect rocks that were fourteen billion years old. The oxygen tank exploded two days into their mission. It exploded because of faulty wiring that is why their mission was a fail. One reason that their mission was a fail was they couldn’t even compete their job. Their job was to…

why he felt the need to reach the summit of Mount Everest, George Mallory said “Because it was there.” Humans have desired to explore the unknown and with space exploration they can finally have it. Humans will also see that it produces wealth to the United States economy. Lastly they will see that we cannot send robots to do it for us. Space exploration is worth the cost because it expands our knowledge and helps us see more of the unknown. I say that because studying health conditions…

The idea of the space elevator dates back to 1895, when Konstanin Tsiolkovsky a Russian phycicist, proposed the idea. The idea was then rediscovered several times by numerous engineers such as, Yuri Artsutanov, Jerome Pearson, Arthur Clarke, and Charles Sheffield. In this paper, we will discuss how the elevator works, the advantages and disadvantages, and the obstacles during the process of forming the elevator. The space elevator is a tower that you can ride into outer space. NASA created…

overestimate the portion of their tax dollar that go to NASA – estimates often come in around 10%, when in reality, only ½ of 1% of the federal budget is allocated towards NASA. In other words, only half of a penny from each dollar in taxes goes to space exploration and research. Now imagine if the funding were doubled. We could maintain a presence on the Moon while simultaneously put a man on Mars. We could explore the oceans of Europa or the surface of Venus. For still only a single penny on…