Spaceflight

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM The Global Positioning System (GPS) also called NAVSTAR is a satellite-based navigation system made up of at least 24 satellites. The U.S. Department of Defense (USDOD) originally put the satellites into space for military use, yet they were made accessible for civilian use in the 1980s. It is comprised of satellites, ground stations, and receivers. These satellites can tell the exact location where someone is situated. GPS works in any climate conditions, anyplace on…

Sending a manned space mission to Mars sounds pretty cool, right, and we all have questions like "Is there life on Mars?" I personally think we should give Mars a visit because think about the secrets we could uncover that could be astonishing and so helpful. We could go to see if we can find information about earth or even have success living there would possibly give us time to explore longer and collect more. Imagine living up there in a sustained area waiting for whatever comes next. Now…

In a futuristic society, the earth is dying of blight while dust is destroying people’s homes. Cooper, a former NASA pilot, agrees to become part of a space odyssey in attempt to travel through a wormhole to another galaxy and find a habitable planet that would allow humans to escape Earth. Throughout the journey, Cooper constantly thinks about his family. His goal is to complete the mission in the least amount of time and return home. Cooper and his team are able to visit two planets while…

In The Case For Space, Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how Barack Obama effectively destroyed 7,500 jobs when he descaled the space shuttle program, but used rhetoric to mask his neglect for American jobs. The Case For Space is an article Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote for the Council on Foreign Relations in 2012 that is a more detailed backbone upon which his address to the Senate is based upon. Similar to his speech, Tyson gives several examples of how increasing NASA’s budget would have a positive…

The Martian, by Andy Weir, is a novel that is extremely comical and surprisingly, scientifically accurate. The Martian chronicles the tales of Mark Watney, a NASA astronaut who was left stranded on Mars after his crew presumed he was dead. Mark Watney uses his engineering and botany skills as a means of surviving on the barren planet that is Mars. In Watney’s stay on Mars, he must determine how to make more food, how to make more water, and ultimately, how to got off of Mars. The Martian obtains…

Jobs give us the money we need to support our families. Pay bills. Keep your house. Pay taxes. Space explorations have been also a big part of our society. For instance, we were the first to send a man to the moon. We have found things that haven't been explored yet. The jobs and space explorations have changed us. There's three documents I want to show you. Some of them convey the same claim. Take a look as to why this is so. Document 2 contributes to the claim as to why space exploration is…

The Christian theme of the inviolable dignity of the individual human being is present throughout Ridley Scott’s film “The Martian.” In the film, NASA astronaut Mark Watney is on Mars with a team of other astronauts. The team gets caught in a huge storm, and Watney is swept away. His team thinks that he is dead, so they leave. Watney survived being swept away, but then he is stranded on Mars and has to survive. To survive, he applies the scientific method in creative ways. When NASA finds out…

In 1986, the world experienced a tragedy that had lasting effects on many people, myself included. While at the young age of nine years old at the time, I can still remember that day as though it was yesterday. That day, schools had closed in my county due to snow. I was home, flipping through the television when I came across a news broadcast about the impending launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger. I do not remember if I had knowledge of the space program before that day, but something that…

At times of their life, humans naturally feel isolated and closed off from the world. During such times, isolation can cause humans to transform, experiencing changes in personality or attitude, usually for the worst. This type of isolation, however, is a novelty compared to the what astronaut Mark Watney underwent when he was abandoned on Mars, fifty million kilometers away from the nest human, in the novel The Martian by Andy Weir. After the HAB, the astronauts’ base in which they can maneuver…

As humans we have a natural curiosity instilled in us. Some have more than others, but one way or another curiosity gets a hold of us. We want to gather as much knowledge as possible about something or many things that take our interest. For Nobel prize winner, Albert Einstein, one of his many interest was Physics. Due to his inquisitive nature Einstein relentlessly sought out many answers, in hopes of acquiring as much knowledge as he could. He made significant advances in numerous fields of…