Space

The Space Race The great space race started in the early 1950s. There were two sides, the democratic capitalists of the US, and the communists of the Soviet Union. The idea of space travel sparked a race to see who could get into space first. B both wanted to prove that their military and technology was better. October 4th, 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite to be in Earth’s orbit. It was seen as the new frontier in the technology of space travel. In 1958…

Ever since the beginning of the space race the United States has been one of the premier space agencies in the world. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, is a government run program that started in 1958 to better understand what lies beyond Earth’s atmosphere. One of their biggest feats was putting a man on the moon. This virtually won us the space race and put us at the forefront of space technology and research. Many thing have changed since Neil Armstrong first stepped…

Some Space to Some Place There is a place that is neither here nor there. I have always been drawn to the in-betweeness. I have spent so much of my life, whether spending time on the airplane or learning new language, exploring places I have never been. When I first travelled internationally at 7, everything was unreal–sitting on a chair for 13 hours, looking out the tiny rounded window to see endless view down below, calculating time lag. Ever since that day, I was always waiting and wanting…

Introduction. The U.S. has a long tradition of space exploration, space operations, and commercial use of space. The United States current and future role in space is vital to our national security, science and technology, economy, educational institutes, and our national pride. U.S. initial space functions developed in 1958 include navigation, meteorology, communication, missile detection, space defense and reconnaissance. These core functions have not significantly changed from the…

To my delight and surprise, I was informed recently of the opportunity to apply for a Space Academy Scholarship. A top priority of mine upon hearing about the program was to pick up an application. This could be a once in a lifetime adventure. For a few years now, a long-term goal of mine is to one day pursue a STEM career in the military. This interest sparked when I learned that being in the military would give me the freedom to travel while giving back to my country. As an aspiring leader and…

The Positive Impacts of The Space Race Following World War II, tensions between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. rose dramatically. These tensions eventually caused the Cold War, a war that did not contain any actual combat between the two countries, but contained U.S. foreign involvement to contain communism, an arms race, and the space race (“Cold War History”). The space race is defined as the period of time in the 50s and 60s where the U.S. and Soviets competed technologically to be the first to…

working on how to bring food in to outer space. According to (Witze, Alexandra. "Space Eats.) “Space food was born in August 1961 when cosmonaut Gherman Titov nibbled a few crackers while orbiting Earth, months later John Glenn was America's first man to eat anything in the near-weightless environment of Earth orbit. He found out that eating in space was an easy tasks but also found the menu provided by NASA was limited. According to (Sandhana, Lakshmi. "SPACE FOOD) in the early years the…

stars to satisfy their curiosity. In particular, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a government agency that oversees U.S. aeronautics and aerospace programs and research, wants to “reach for new heights and reveal the unknown for the benefit of humankind” (Wilson). NASA has been a national icon for space exploration for nearly 60 years (Simpson). In the 20th century, the U.S. engaged in the space race, a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for…

In a period of incredible social turmoil and change, the United States space program was a project that brought Americans together under the same moon, same stars, same sky. However, right from the beginning, it was clear that the space program did not fully represent America. While white men were at the forefront of space exploration, women and people of color were originally overlooked. As these groups made more and more progress and had a greater and greater presence, they continued to…

Space Exploration Why are people upset about NASA and their space exploration program? I am going to write about the reasons behind many people oppose space exploration and why many people encourage space exploration. This topic is of interest to me because as a people who wanted to explore space and believes that space exploration is important, it is an issue that needs to be addressed and needs to be funded again. This topic will be interesting to my readers because there are still so many…