Spaceflight

The United States was well aware of the dangers its astronauts faced in outer space, but made a decision to continue space exploration. “In event of Moon Disaster” was a speech written by William Safire, for President Nixon to give in case the Apollo 11 mission to the moon went wrong, but was never actually given. The speech starts off by claiming that fate has decided that the two astronauts, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, are to be stranded on the moon, and that this shall be their resting…

In today’s society, capitalism satisfies our desire to constantly consume goods and services. This structure of economy allows anyone to make her own living and pursue her American Dream while empowering great minds to find answers to the world’s biggest problems. However, it also paves the way for companies to rapidly extract natural resources from the earth, and in turn put many of those harvested resources to waste. Consider the mass amounts of energy wasted every day from leaving the lights…

According to Bowles and Kaplan, “on October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, a 23-inch-diameter, 183-pound ball containing a radio transmitter, into space” (Bowles and Kaplan, 2012, paragraph 7). The Sputnik I was known as the first artificial satellite. It was involved in the orbit and the Earth. It was also a part of the Soviet Union. The first person reached satellite in 1957. The size of the satellite was not very large. The Sputnik traveled above the Earth’s surface. According…

“One hundred years ago during the rebellion a class three vessel, The Revolution, went missing in an uncharted star cluster. A month later they sent a team to find the vessel but instead they found a planet that was able to sustain life and was rich with rare elements that was crucial to winning the war. A colony was placed there to strip the planet bare of these elements. The war was won years later, and the people of the colony were forgotten on a planet dying after years of pollution. And…

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…

Should Humans Live On Mars? Think about it, would you want to live on Mars? I don’t know, I think that that would be very, very difficult. I’m going to start out with some real evidence why I would not want to live there.”The effects of radiation exposure could include severe memory loss, brain damage, and cancer.” I don’t know about you, but that is some really bad things that I myself would not want deal with. Next, let me tell you more evidence why living on Mars is a horrible idea. The…

In the the movie Gravity Ryan Stone and her partner Matt Kowalsky are pushed to the limits to save their lives. After Matt sacrifices his own life to keep Ryan alive she is then forced to continue the journey back to Earth alone. Although Ryan does not have much to live for, her will to live allows her to strive to keep living for herself and her partner Matt. All of Ryan’s persistence and her will to live gets her back to Earth safely although she lost the life of her friend, Matt. The movie…

1. Introduction: On December 3, 1999, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) lost communication with its Mars Polar Lander (MPL) and Deep Space 2 (DS2) after an attempt to land on Mars. The failure of the mission was a blow to NASA Mars program. The loss of MPL was fully investigated by a Special Review Board (the Board) to prevent the same mistakes in the future missions. Later, the report revealed that when the lander touchdowned, a software glitch might had made the engine…