Space Shuttle

Government had to make huge expenditures from it’s budget and this was the first time in American History.Duringit’s peak years, about 34,000 NASA workers and 375,000 outside temporary workers partook in the program. Abe Silverstein who is the Director of Space Flight Development, proposed the name "Apollo" the reason was actually “Apollo” is the name of a god in ancient Greek mythology with attractive connotations and actually in order to naming spaceflight projects with mythological gods and…

What is out there in space? This is a question that has plagued many a generation while writing papers for school. This question still plagues students today. I’m going to discuss what I feel are the top three reasons why space exploration is still a viable and much needed program in today 's society as well as for future generations to come. The show Star Trek says, “Space is the final frontier.” Space exploration in general, as well as long term survival and the benefit of natural resources…

crash. In curiosity, NASA assembled a team of three to travel to the site on the shuttle Thanatos and investigate in hopes of information regarding extraterrestrial life. Included in the team was Liz Arendse, Cody Delaney, and Hazel Palomer. Liz was the captain and a top astronaut, Cody was closely behind. Hazel, youngest of the group at 29 was an excellent navigator. Ever since they started training at the space station, Cody and Liz had various problems getting along together. Whereas Liz…

answers we desperately seek, space agencies were created. The most well known and credible space agency, till this date, is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA). It is a government-owned agency, meaning that its funding comes from taxpayer money. This also means that the amount of things that can be accomplished to further our comprehension about space exploration is limited by the cost to pursue these actions. NASA’s budget for the current…

One of the most obvious and yet simple reasons for why we explore space besides figuring out how life started is because, by nature, we are curious. We have an innate curiosity engraved in us as human beings, and because of that we yearn to discover and to explore what we don 't yet understand. The first people that walked on this earth had to of looked up at the sun and the stars and wondered how they function and what their purpose was- but they didn 't necessarily have any of the tools or the…

concerning space travel is the cost of sending food and the physical and mental condition of the astronauts. If scientists predict that we will have colonies on the moon and Mars they need to figure out a feasible way to feed the astronauts. Good morning/afternoon/evening, my name is Claudia Van Dyke and I represent the Blacksburg FFA Chapter. There have been several astronauts who have successfully grown food like zucchini, sunflowers, lettuce and broccoli on the International Space Station…

mankind.” This quote by Neil Armstrong marked the end of the Space Race. The space race was a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to see who could land a man on the moon first. It originally began as an arms race to build destructive missiles. But over the years, the main objective has changed. Even though the competition lasted a little more than a decade, it led to major contributions to the exploration of space. After World War II came to an end, the United States and…

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In the back of the school there are pathways that connect from the school’s back parking lots into what looks like a fairly nice subdivision. There is a lot more trash strewn about in the back of the school and there are a few kids walking from the parking lot down the path to the subdivision. The school has several fields located through out the back of the school. One field is large and has soccer goals at either end of the field, and the other field has two football goals at each end,…

Usman Hameed Ullah Mr. Ko, Paul Social and Cultural Anthropology HSP3U7 October 19th, 2017 Culture Shock: A personal account My first encounter with culture shock occurred when I immigrated to Canada. This was back in August of 2014 and I was just under thirteen years of age. When my plane finally landed in Toronto, I was completely over the moon with everything. This concept of a ‘whole new world’ had revolved in my mind for at least seven months now. Full of adrenaline, I took in the fact…