Spacecraft propulsion

Should We Go To Mars? Dwia Alsafi Riverside Academy West Ms.Miller June, 2016  On July 20, 1989 ( the 20th anniversary of the first human landing on the Moon) President George Bush made an announcement claiming his intention of supporting a program of manned exploration of the solar system and the permanent settlement of space, known as the Space Exploration Initiative ( SEI). One of its major goals was to build a space station as a stepping stone for humans to return to the Moon and…

Space exploration leads the pathway of perception and can be useful in multiple types of technology. With the government in a federal deficit, why was NASA the program that had such a drastic cutback? Space programs and space exploration should be better funded by the government. Although there needs to be a decrease in government spending on programs because of the government deficit, NASA should not have received such a large portion of their program spending cut. NASA has possible plans…

Even though the NASA Space Center could use a space station on the moon or Mars, the children of the United States need that money. Weather that’s to buy food or water, they are in more crucial need of that money. The billions of dollars used to build this International Space Station, could go to the children of poverty. First and foremost, the NASA Space Center in Houston, Texas, already has Space Stations in space. There is no real reason to spend billions on another one on the moon or…

Elon Musk's plan to colonize Mars just got some serious 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…

the ship cut down on cost to include such a device? Also, normal space missions have to keep enough energy to sustain human life with just the essentials, but on a trip to Mars which could take 68 days (Sample), there would need to be enough energy to keep this shield up for all that time on the way to Mars and on the way back. This is a considerably large amount of energy that needs to be added to the ship. While there are many problems that could be found in this type of shield, the mastermind…

In this article, there are three main characters. Elon Musk – a businessman, the CEO and chief engineer of the company SpaceX. Robert Zubrin, the president of the Mars Society, and Robert Chambers, an engineer working on the Mars Base Camp concept. According to Mr. Musk’s idea of sending people to Mars, he had found a feasible business plan, which could lead to the execution of his desires. The main issue is to build a new rocket for Mars colonization called the Interplanetary Transport System.…

Elon Musk- The Eventual Martian Since the dawn of time, man has been on a quest to seek knowledge and to extend our years of life as individuals and as a species. One individual has shown that through massive intellect and ambition that anybody can achieve greatly. Elon Musk was born in South Africa with not much to do. He created his own video game and sold it at the age of twelve for quite a lump sum of money, and since then he was on the path to become the richest man on earth. He half…

No multi-cell organism has been able to survive on Earth for without fear of extinction. Humans are no exception. With global temperatures rising and scientists saying that the Earth is in the beginning of its next mass extinction, the human race should be looking for a new planet to call home. The problem with this proposition being that the human race does not have the technology available to reach a planet that is comparable to the Earth in atmosphere, and size. NASA scientist are currently…

National defense will always be a priority to the national space program. With critical systems like secure communications, early warning, surveillance, intelligence, reconnaissance, positioning satellites requirements never going away as long as there is a threat to the way we live. Space is the ultimate high ground and the U.S. must maintain its dominance in this domain to stay on top. These systems need to be responsive while at the same time reliable and sustainable. There is however,…

What would happen if something were to occur unexpectedly in a place where nothing really happens? Montag, in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, is a fireman in suburbs, and Barton, in Cold Equations by Tom Godwin, is a pilot on a spaceship. Both main characters have problems that need to be fixed to make their world right. People should start being more aware of their surroundings and what can happen around them. Although there are some small similarities, the difference between Fahrenheit 451 and…