Spacecraft

Space Shuttle The space missions by NASA involve the exploration of our space by pushing for more scientific and technical skills. It is indeed useful for us in addressing the fundamental concerns especially concerning the solar system. Through space missions, the exploration is expanded by using the technology. The missions are essential in integrating technology in form of robotic missions (Xu, & Kanade, 2010). For any successful endeavor as observed in the science center. The translunar space…

Space exploration is a much needed part of the United States today. 63% of college graduates say NASA is doing a great job for the world. 55% of Non-college graduates say NASA is doing a bad job or just not doing their job for the world. 70% of college graduates believe that the space to the space program has many benefits. 54% of non-college graduates believe the exact opposite. Where would we be today without NASA. We would not have been the first people to land on the moon or even orbit earth…

Thank you for choosing my school to select three artifacts for a time capsule that will be taken to Mars on your next space mission. I have chose three artifacts that would be significant to the future generation. These three artifacts consist of, a CD, a book, and a phone. I think these items would be significant because they were such monumental changes in our society today. The first artifact I chose is the CD, “Straight to DVD 2”. CD’s are disks that hold data, the data on the CD can be…

Building bottle rockets can be a fun and learning experience, as many students at UCAS found out. There were many things to test, and many interesting aspects of the rocket. Three main features of the “Mission to Mars” are how to construct the rocket, rocket performance, and physics of the rocket. When these items are viewed, it is evident that students can see the effects of physics in real life problems. And by doing so become more intelligent as teenagers want to learn more, and have fun…

The Kepler Spacecraft For centuries, humankind was unable to distinguish whether exoplanets were rare or common in the galaxy. It was nearly impossible to capture the individual signals being emitted from distant planets such as reduced brilliance when the planet passes in front of its parent star without some type of space telescope. Thus, in March 2009, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), launched the Kepler spacecraft. The primary mission of this new instrument was to…

At this very moment, NASA’S Dawn Spacecraft is closing in on the dwarf planet Ceres, which meeks out its lonely existence out in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, that ring slowly spinning beyond the inner planets’ orbits, separating us from the gas giants, the oort cloud, and that vast emptiness beyond. However, Dawn’s approach of Ceres has already been so Chock Full of odd surprises that astronomers are unsure what to make of the dwarf planet. For starters, NASA aired a video last…

every detail to be flawless. In negligence of these precisions fatal and tremendous disasters can occur. An ideal illustration of this is the explosion of the ‘Challenger spacecraft’ in 1986, a few minutes after take-off, due to the use of an erroneously sized safety part. The part was 0.065 inches bigger than required for the spacecraft. This disaster is a significant warning as to why accuracy is very important in Mechanical engineering. Background The launch of the Challenger Space-Shuttle…

The possibilities of space exploration are unknown, but with the advancements that are to come interstellar travel is one of those possibilities. The propulsion systems these spacecraft are to be far more advanced that of what is in current use. As stated earlier if nuclear fusion is to be incorporated into propulsion systems the distance in which mankind is to travel throughout the universe would increase greatly. Instead of being…

Personal Write up For this lab, bottle rockets were to be made by the materials of duct tape, a tennis ball, cardboard, and a liter bottle. Using water as fuel, the rocket that is constructed was launched at the pressure of eighty PSI. The objective of this lab was to build the rocket efficient enough to launch at a range of two hundred to three hundred feet by calculating different variables. The independent variables of this lab were the shape and mass of the rocket, the angle degree the…

Paul Fitts and Michael Posner created a 3 stage model and suggested any learning of a new motor skill involves this model (Magill 2014). During the first stage, known as the Cognitive Stage, the novice learner will try to familiarize with the movement. The learner will analyze the objective of the movement, what they are trying to accomplish, and how to do it. This first stage of the model will be accompanied with numerous of errors and lack of consistency. Also seen in this stage, the learner…