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    Should the government be funding space exploration? What has come out of the United States space program and is 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 space program only came about as the result of the cold war. The program improved the…

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    The brand new Asteroid Redirection Mission (ARM) has just gone under review from NASA, and it looks to be ready by 2021. We will see the agency try to get a space boulder from the surface of nearby asteroids and place it into lunar orbit. This isn't nearly as cool as blowing it up with a nuke, but it's a safe way to test the future of our planetary defense program. NASA'S ARM HAS OTHER PLANS While this highly-anticipated mission's main goal is to redirect asteroids, NASA has other uses for the…

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    But Cruz's first meetings with NASA workers in a Space committee gathering showed a more aggressive part about him. Cruz and Sen. Cory Gardner made clear quite that for them, the main mission of NASA's space exploration, not any of their other scientific pursuits, like monitoring climate change from space and certain things that other countries may have not discovered. It will be more difficult to put people in space if sea levels rise states Senator Bill Nelson of (Florida), of which is one of…

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    Earth on a NASA Shuttle. However, seven of the casualties were from a failed reentry of the atmosphere which occurred on February 1st, 2003 when the STS-107 Columbia burnt up and disintegrated during reentry. In this log, one will learn how a space shuttle is designed and how the trajectory a ship takes to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere safely. Space is everything, discovered known places, and also the dangerous unknown. However, when astronauts and cosmonauts return to Earth from space, it take…

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    its finest, the typical cost of basic items is at its most noteworthy, and our moral values are at their lowest. Today’s technology today is greater than ever before. Every often sciences and technologists amaze us within a new technology. In 1950 space travel was just a thought. Now people…

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    The general idea of this movie is evolution. The apes that appeared in the first act of the movie show this evolution, since the monoliths gave the apes the ability to use bone tools and eat meat. The idea of evolution was also apparent when one of the apes throws a bone into the air. Time flashes forward, and the bone transformed into a spaceship. Evolution was again evident when the team which was dispatched from Clavius touched the monolith, and a radio signal was heard. Finally, evolution…

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    encountered for the duration of the mission. The actual spaceflight plan must account for every action the mission is to take. With regard to these three things coupled with the capability driven framework outlined in the Evolvable Mars Campaign abstract, a solid basis for a mission to Mars can be created. Designing the spacecraft is contingent upon the unavailability of the…

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    tells the truth. In Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly we had the chance to see just a sliver of the hidden heros that won America the space race. Yet, in our textbooks there is no mention of them or others alike. It is critical that the authors of the past don’t use censorship. The narrative that U.S. history used to tell us of the individuals who won the space race was one of a victor. Victor’s are the ones that writes history. Those who suffer or lose don’t talk about their failures and…

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    also other reasons space exploration is crucial. Space exploration helps create technology that will benefit people. Space exploration helps America stay a leader in space exploration. Primarily, space exploration helps make technology that is beneficial for people. John F. Kennedy explains how space exploration is advancing technology that will help people. He says, “Just as the wartime development of radar gave us the transistor, and all that it made possible, so research in space medicine…

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    A space probe is an unmanned spacecraft designed to explore space and gather scientific information. A probe can be operated far away from earth and it may orbit or land on a planet. Most probes transmit data from space by radio. There are many probes out there because all are designed to study different environments. Unmanned probes are much better because they are not very expensive like manned spacecraft. Manned spaceflight is very expensive and dangerous. Humans require oxygen, food supplies…

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