Spacecraft

Apollo 13 Maria Awad Mr. Estes American History II, D-block 16 March 2016 On April 11, 1970, the spacecraft, Apollo 13 was launched to go to the moon. Its journey lasted about five days, 22 hours, 54 minutes and 41 seconds and traveled 622,268 miles. It landed April 17, 1970 in the Pacific Ocean (Chaikin, Kohl, and Bean 56). The spacecraft’s crew consisted of: James A. Lovell Jr. as the Commander, Fred W. Haise Jr. as the Lunar Module Pilot, and John L. Swigert Jr. as the Command Module…

Autonomous technology has always been an important part of space exploration. Spacecraft can be fully autonomous or can work in collaboration with human operator on earth. All space exploration vehicles needs to be at least partly autonomous because of the distance that separates it from the nearest space station. Far distances mean that communication with the vehicle will always be delayed, therefore the vehicle won’t be able to react to sudden changes. For example, it takes 14 minutes for a…

for people who enjoy spacecraft and aircraft. Some questions people have about aerospace engineering are; “What is aerospace engineering? How can you become an aerospace engineer? What are a couple good colleges to go to for aerospace engineering? Why do people want to become aerospace engineers?” All of these questions will be answered in this paper. What is aerospace engineering? Aerospace engineering is the field of engineering that has to deal with aircraft and spacecraft…

orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. Newspapers like The Huntsville Times (right) trumpeted Gagarin's accomplishment. Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space less than a month later. The first cooperative human space flight project between the United States and the Soviet Union took place in 1975. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was designed to test the compatibility of rendezvous and docking systems for American and Soviet spacecraft and to open the way for…

accomplish this NASA created the Saturn V rocket, which was basically a three stage rocket meant to boost the actual spacecraft out of the Earth's atmosphere and into an orbit where the spacecraft to boost towards the moon. This design allowed for the astronauts to leave Earth, reach the moon, and return safely. This design was far larger and more advanced than Russian spacecraft designs. The success of the Apollo 11 programs mission was then momentous as it changed the world. The historical…

Mars. SpaceX is making progress toward making something like this possible while helping with space travel today. SpaceX is making the future for space life because of what is has to offer, the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets along with their spacecraft, the Dragon. SpaceX was founded by a successful businessman who imagines advancing space technology. Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002. Before he started, he had no training in rocketry. Elon Musk owns the car brand Tesla. Elon Musk started…

MARINER PROGRAM Mariner 4 flew by Mars in July 1965 This was followed by Mariner 6 and 7 in 1969.The images sent back showed what appeared to be a geologically dead world. There was an abundance of craters much like the moon. It was also from these spacecraft that we learned that Mars' polar caps were made of Carbon Dioxide ice instead of water ice. In 1971, Mariner 9 flew by Mars and mapped the entire planet down to 1 km. These images brought a wealth of information and it soon become clear…

three men, Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert, into space on the Apollo 13 mission. Initially, Lovell, the commander, and Haise, the lunar module pilot, were supposed to walk on the moon while Swigert, the command module pilot, stayed in the spacecraft in orbit, but an event on April 13th changed that plan. The thing that makes the Apollo 13 mission so famous and different from the other missions is how…

There has recently been a NASA spacecraft, called New Horizons, that flew to Pluto to do some studying. The spacecraft took off 9 ½ years ago from Cape Canaveral, Florida and its flight has spanned 3 billion miles. The spacecraft is operated from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. New Horizons has taken pictures of Pluto and has revealed a variety of landscapes. From soaring mountains to dunes to frozen ice. “Pluto is showing us a diversity of…

stand on the planet but not survive. Also, scientists discovered that on Mercury they have extreme temperature changes that humans would not be able to survive with those conditions. Throughout time, Mercury has only been visited by two spacecrafts. The first spacecraft was called Mariner 10.…