Space Shuttle

INTRODUCTION The United States (U.S.) space program began in a period of history when numerous nations were at war with each other. During this period, one of the biggest enemies of the U.S. was Germany. The Germans seemed to have rocketry just about mastered. Their V-1 and V-2 rockets, designed by Werner von Braun, rained terror across Europe. The U.S. was well aware of this and took actions to seize the German rocket technology. In late 1945 as WWII was winding down, the U.S.…

On Wednesday, November 30th, Richard Hagar discussed his time as an engineer for the NASA Apollo projects. During NASA’S heyday, Mr. Hagar moved to Florida to work at the Kennedy Space center. As a spacecraft operator, he had an important role in developing, repairing, and modifying each of the Apollo missions. Throughout his endeavors, Mr. Hagar has seen Apollo 1’s failure, helped NASA problem solve through issues,, and helped rescue the astronauts on the Apollo 13 mission. Though the highly…

begin exploring the cosmos. The transition to a new form of pioneering is taking place, as the Earth has been explored end to end and is now occupied by humans on every corner there is only one place left to go. The limitless vastness and marvel of space is where the inevitable future of humans must take place as bound to our rock we will inevitably stagnate and disappear. As Earth civilization advances into the 21st century we move toward the transition from type zero to type…

Space Exploration & Why We Should Fund It Space exploration is a really expensive endeavor to the common civilian, it costs billions to operate a mission to space, billions to build the shuttles to get up there. The U.S.A space program NASA has seen less funding each year since 1966 where it peaked at 4.5% of the federal budget down to 1% in 1975 and it still loses funding each year even today! How is NASA staying afloat and it is effecting how long it will take us to achieve reasonable and…

Astronaut Luca Parmitan’s EMU experienced a near life threatening fluid leak during his space walk in 2013. During his spacewalk, Parmitan reported feeling water in his helmet and behind his head. The spacewalk continued up until the water reached his face, making it difficult for him to see and breathe. A photo of the EMU helmet worn by Astronaut Luca Parmitan filling up with water to recreate the leakage. (NASA, 2013) At first, the leakage was thought to have occurred due to a malfunction in…

of the American space program are long past, the role of the National Aeronautic and Space Administration should pivot — from space exploration to space regulation. In particular, private companies — not NASA — should undertake the exploration of space and NASA should oversee these ventures, much as another federal agency, the FAA, oversees private aviation. Private space companies would go through rigorous tests and monitoring period and at a certain point be 'cleared ' for space travel with…

Raina Orion Erika Harnett ESS 102 April 15, 2016 Robotic Missions: Mars Pathfinder This research is in preparation to write the fictional article currently titled “Tales of A Space Robot”. This article will be about an extremely advanced AI robot that has spent the past 50 years cataloging and exploring a nearby solar system for life, potential colonization, as well as other scientific research. The research presented below gives an idea of what types of data the robot can collect or potentially…

According to many different articles filled with facts and opinions, Pluto should be a planet. Scientists have been debating for years whether Pluto should considered a planet and part of our solar system. Pluto should still be a planet regardless of its size, and there are plenty more information to understand why it should be a planet, especially in our solar system. First of all, according to, Discovery Education, “For 80 years, schoolchildren have been taught that the Solar System has nine…

around Earth at about 27 000 kilometers per hour. But there were five missions that went to the Hubble Space Craft. All of the missions were servicing missions where they upgraded the Hubble space craft so that it would operate for a longer time because it was making so many interesting discoveries.The Hubble Space Telescope is unmanned. A unmanned spacecraft is when no humans go with it to outer space. But there were some manned missions that went to the Hubble spacecraft. Even Though you do…

Dorothy Johnson Vaughan was born september 20,1910 in her hometown Kansas City, Missouri. She was hired by NACA which later became (NASA) December of 1943. Dorothy made important contributions to the early years of the U.S. space program and was the first African American manager at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. As a group of African American female mathematicians who were considered “human computers” performing complex computations and getting data for aerospace engineers.…