Spacecraft propulsion

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 not climb aboard the Hubble spacecraft people are still controlling it. They control the spacecraft at the Space Telescope Operations…

to sell tickets for $100,000 or more due to the rising costs of fuel, so only the wealthiest could afford going on a space vacation. One day, MIT graduate Lester Mammert realized this. He wanted to change this. He started a company, Intelligent Propulsion Ltd., and worked together with a few of his friends. Many large corporations supported them. They rented out a large warehouse and did all sorts of experiments.…

We should be looking for extraterrestrial life elsewhere in the universe for. First of all, if we don’t continue searching, we will be wasting all the money and the hard work we have already done. Also, if aliens were to find Earth than they could bring new and better technology. With that technology, we can discover even more than just life in space. In “Top 5 Reasons why Space Exploration is Important for the World” stated that The Apollo missions inspired a whole generation of kids who…

Launching bottle rockets was a difficult task, for there were many steps to follow. After all the groups launched their rockets, my partner and I compared the data for each group. Before launching the rockets, I inferred that a rocket with a lighter mass would affect time aloft by the rocket staying in flight for a longer time. For example, the rocket of Group #8 (Steven P. and Matthew P.) had a mass of 204.2 grams, and it stayed in flight for exactly 7.61 seconds. With a mass of 470.9 grams,…

The purpose of the lab was to see is a constructed lunar lander would safely land astronauts to the surface of the moon. An actual lander was not built however a lunar lander was built out of cardboard, plastic, cups, marshmallows, index cards, and straws. With these materials, a replica of a lunar lander was made however with different step process, for example a rectangular cardboard base instead of a circular one. A lunar lander was successfully built and got a chance to improve it. After…

Editor in Chief USA Today Online Columnist and Editor, Rand Simberg Dear Editor: Re: “Challenger lesson still unlearned after 30 years– Running a space airline to orbit, the moon or even Mars isn't the right job for government.” January 26, 2016 USA Today Opinion Column. I wish to provide a different perspective from the military community with regard to a recent editorial about the role government has in the space industry. The author Rand Simberg, expressed his opinion that with…

The federal budget is made up of all types of different parts. These parts are all for the good of us americans and this is what our senate and president thinks is important. The one I’m going to talk about is the funding for our NASA program. The senate and president has changed the funding for the NASA program many times. In 2001 the NASA program had 14,095 milion dollars in federal funding.Now today the NASA program has 19,300 million in federal funding. I personally believe that the…

For centuries, humans have pondered the vastness of interstellar space and longed to know exactly what was out there. With the onset of the space race in the 1950’s, this aspiration seemed eventually reachable. Each new mission challenged the parameters of the last launch, in speed, distance, payload, and passengers. More recently, the possibility of travel to other planets within our solar system has approached feasibility. In 2003, the Mars robotic rovers exceeded all expectations, both…

Try not to float away! Space is pretty big, 435,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 KM or 46 billion light years away to be exact. Who knows what is out there. It also has zero gravity so you probably would not be stable at all. Who knows what can happen. Why does this matter? Because space should not privatized. It should not be privatized because multiple lives have been lost while on space missions, it should not be ran by undercover organization that no one knows and last space should not be used…

Space Exploration Humans always had a nature of curiosity. That’s what drove Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano to circumnavigate the globe. They discovered new lands and crossed new oceans. If they weren’t allowed to go on the voyage, then our history would be too recent. Humans would still be exploring and naming lands in later centuries, if such an event were to happen. This applies to space exploration. With the head start space agencies has executed, the future generations will…