Space Shuttle program

spends an exorbitant amount of money each year on space exploration, but the possible benefits outweigh the government…

Chapter One “GET DOWN !” my commanding officer screamed We all scrambled into the trenches and I watched in horror as a football sized ball of lightning came smashing into his chest. He said nothing he didn’t even scream he just stared at me and fell over backwards, dead. screechers we call them, they came only a year ago in great big spacecraft 10 times larger than our own. We don’t know much about them where they came from, what they want and why us but we do know that they are killing us…

astronauts were put to test out the new rocket in the apollo program. Then, a catastrophic fire erupted through Apollo 1 leaving the three men in the rocket dead. After this tragic event happened, the NASA review board concluded that a stray, damaged spark began to fire in the oxygen environment leading the fire to spread quickly. This incident lead to many fixes and recommendations that were made to future rockets. NASA’s new space shuttle Challenger was launched January 28th, 1986. How the…

TThe US space program has a long history, which began in the 1950s. Women played a key role in this history as secretaries, human computers, wives of astronauts, astronauts, and many more. The spark that struck the idea for an American space program was Sputnik, the first Russian satellite in space. The US started with building nuclear weapons before they were ready for the space program, NASA. Once NASA was formed it was their goal to get humans in space, at first scientists thought it was the…

STS-51-L was a shuttle by NASA that exploded 73 seconds after lift off and killed 7 American astronauts. It takes NASA 1.5 billion dollars to launch a rocket. Therefore, in 73 seconds NASA wasted 1.5 billion dollars and cost us 7 precious lives. Between the years of 1964 and 1999 there have been twenty launches. Within those twenty launches six were failed missions, which in turn lost the U.S $9 Billion. NASA in the future would like to spend about 500 million dollars on each shuttle they…

The Cancellation of Exploration: Bring Back the Funding for Domestic Space Exploration Space, the final frontier. For years, mankind gazed up at the stars, and dreamed of stepping onto the moon. On July 20, 1969, this dream became a reality (NASA, 2014). Neil Armstrong stepping foot on the moon was a bonding experience for most everyone in the country, or even the world. There are some events, like the crash of the challenger, or 9/11, where people know exactly where they were when that…

years– Running a space airline to orbit, the moon or even Mars isn't the right job for government.” January 26, 2016 USA Today Opinion Column. I wish to provide a different perspective from the military community with regard to a recent editorial about the role government has in the space industry. The author Rand Simberg, expressed his opinion that with the tragedy of the Space Shuttle Challenger the government via NASA should not be the leader in charge of our space program. While…

Speech Analysis: President Ronald Reagan's Address on the Space Shuttle “Challenger” Ever had a day already planned out and then something happens that throws everything array? On the evening of January twenty-eighth in 1986, President Ronald Reagan's main goal of the speech was to mourn and remember the lives lost. Ronald Reagan delivered the speech because he was the President and also because he was fit to present this speech to the public because he's not personally invested in the lives…

Superbird Brian Tomlinson Superbird is the story about aliens who come to Earth with a vessel called Superbird. Mary Mount was the only one of the five who had survived. Mary tells her story to a reporter of the Daily Star. They told the reporter on the tragic landing where two of the crew were killed and a badly injured. Mary and Sam ran away, but Sam was shot. Mary ran to a house where she was taken care of. They made friends with people and learned to speak their language. They helped 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. In…