Space Shuttle

A six-member crew of astronauts, under the leadership of Commander Melissa Lewis, decide to suddenly abort their assignment on Mars after they learn of an imminent storm. In the process of exiting the red planet, Mark Watney, one of the crew members, gets hit and disappears from his colleagues. An attempt to search for him by Commander Lewis proofs futile. The crew thinks Watney is dead and proceeds to leave Mars. As the head of the crew, Commander Lewis notifies Teddy Sanders, the NASA director…

flown to New Delhi on Tuesday for burial,” (“APJ Abdul Kalam, India's Former President, Dies” 2). This respect is acceptable with all the accomplishments the former president had achieved, “played a major role in the centre’s evolution to a key hub of space research in India … father of the Indian nuclear bomb” (“APJ Abdul Kalam, India's Former President, Dies” 3). The article begins by telling the reader how deeply impacted Indians were by Abdul’s death by describing their method of mourning…

message came over the intercom, it was time. I engaged the thrusters and aimed for the NARSS(North American Recreational Space Station). This will be my home for 15 years. You are probably wondering how I got here. Ever since I was five years old, I wanted to travel to space. Due to my good grades in math and science, I was able to enter into a competition to be the first to go to a space station resort and school orbiting earth. The station was constructed in 2050 and will be open to the public…

manned mission into space in 1973. The mission lasted a total of 28 days and provided us with more information about space that we had previously not known. This was known as the first Skylab launch, and consisted of a three man crew which included Charles C. Conrad Jr. (commander), Paul J. Weitz (pilot), and Joseph Kerwin (scientist). While up in space they were able to conduct experiments which in total they spent 392 hours on. They were able to accomplish a lot up in space in the short 28…

SpaceX founded back in 2002, has come a long way in a short time when it comes to paving the way for reusable and more responsive space launch vehicles. It currently has two different launch vehicles at its disposal the Falcon 9 and the Falcon Heavy. The Falcon 9 space launch vehicle is designed to be reusable. The Falcon 9 itself is a simple two-stage rocket that uses 9 first stage and one Merlin vacuum engines to power attached payloads to their appropriate operating orbit or transfer orbit…

Hidden Figures: Historical Film Analysis Directed by Theodore Melfi and set post World War 2 in 1961, the film Hidden Figures is based on a true story; the story of an African-American woman who made it possible for NASA to send a man in space. The biographical drama film is inspired by a book of the same name written by Margot Lee Shetterly. The film explores the ideologies of racial equality and ethnicity after the traumatic event that cooled down further mass conflicts. It’s difficult to…

The Opportunity Rover and it’s twin the Spirit Rover received their names from a nine year old, Sofi Collis. She won the naming contest that NASA held (with help from Planetary Society and sponsorship from lego) to find a name for the rovers exploring Mars. Sofi Collis got adopted at the age of two. She came to live with her new family in Scottsdale, Arizona. "I used to live in an orphanage," Collis wrote in her winning essay. "It was dark and cold and lonely. At night, I looked up at the…

According to Space.com, Walter Cunningham and the people of his crew, did not get honored with NASA’s biggest award, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. Apollo 7 was the first manned Apollo mission, but they did not get awarded with this award until forty years later. The mission was at 1968, and the crew got the award at Oct 17, 2008. I can connect with him because I usually don’t get recognition if I do something good in the house. According to NASA he majored in physics. I find physics…

help. SpaceX scientists are now working with NASA to find the best areas for the Red Dragon spaceship to land. With these two forces combined, they hope to get humans to the red planet is just five years. Until then, they'll be a lot of talk about space, profits and of course, aliens. SpaceX and NASA Find Ideal Place for Aliens on Mars SpaceX scientist Paul Wooster found one particular area on Mars with a flat surface. Furthermore, it's close to ice which means it's promising to support human…

A group of students attached a GoPro camera into a weather balloon The balloon rose up to 98,600 feet before bursting in the stratosphere The unit was found at the Grand Canyon two years after the launch A GoPro camera that was launched to the stratosphere was found to be lying at the Grand Canon two years after its owners lost contact to it. In a report written by Nicholas St. Fleur for the New York Times, the unit, which was attached to a Samsung phone, was told to have been found by a hiker…