Spaceflight

The Contemporary Importance of NASA Funding This year, 2016, is the 57th anniversary of NASA, or, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. In those 57 years, NASA has accomplished a lot; landing humans on the moon, sending robots to mars, amongst many other feats. Whilst these things once seemed impossible, more and more so they're becoming standard things to NASA. Despite this, many people nowadays feel that government money spent on NASA is a waste of funding, and they don't fully…

To reach the summit of Mount Everest, George Mallory said “ Because it was there”. He said this for people to know that exploring things that may be impossible is the impossible. Exploration at extreme conditions is worth the cost for big reasons, exploration produces technology for people to build bigger things like better rocket ships and satellite radios. Furthermore, gives us new knowledge to space and things we may not know yet and may need the materials for here on earth. Yet, people…

With Elon Musk’s vision for the future and SpaceX set to achieve great heights in space, anything is possible. But does that include sending out a rocket every two to three weeks? SpaceX wants to launch a rocket every two to three weeks despite last year’s launch pad explosion. With high confidence, SpaceX is looking at a tight operational schedule and aims to pick up the pace of its Falcon 9 launches. With a two to three week schedule, SpaceX would need to rely on a new launch pad at NASA’s…

Should We Go To Mars? Dwia Alsafi Riverside Academy West Ms.Miller June, 2016  On July 20, 1989 ( the 20th anniversary of the first human landing on the Moon) President George Bush made an announcement claiming his intention of supporting a program of manned exploration of the solar system and the permanent settlement of space, known as the Space Exploration Initiative ( SEI). One of its major goals was to build a space station as a stepping stone for humans to return to the Moon and…

complicated situation. During the Cold War, America was gripped by the fear that the Soviet Union would land on the moon first, thereby defeating America in the space race. "When you divorce it from the numbers and you ask people if they like NASA and spaceflight, people say yes, ... 75 to 80 percent are in favor." However, this was only the case in some circumstances. Not all Americans - and usually not even half of Americans - felt that the moonshot was worth the money being put in: "public…

outperformed U.S. in this category. One Small Step for Man Kind 1 billion people watched from 251,000 miles away as Armstrong said “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” In October of 1968 the U.S. deployed the first manned spaceflight, Apollo 7. Apollo 7 orbited the Earth and tested the mechanisms necessary…

However, NASA’s funding has been all over the scale. With the budget being $16.2 billion in 2005, which includes the human spaceflight division, other engineering projects, and science which was all funded by NASA (curious.astro.cornell.edu). It spiked back up to $18.5 billion in the early twenty-tens (northeastern.edu), decreased since 2013, then increased again in 2015 (spaceflightnow…

assassinated, and man lands on the moon. Many more historical American events were to develop in the mid to late of the century. In the 1960s, many major technological advances were made. One such item is the Apollo 11. The Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that had landed the first humans on the moon. Launched by a Saturn V rocket from the Kennedy Space Center on July 16, the trip to the moon had lasted a total of ----- days, ---- hours, and ---- minutes from launch to…

As technology in the space sciences advances, the distances humans can travel through space also increases. Long-term space missions can cause complications to astronauts’ health (see Figure 1), the severity of which are not yet well understood. This paper focuses on three main health complications experienced by crew members during long-term space travel: muscle atrophy; loss of bone mass; and immune system changes. This paper also explores current research into preventative measures and…

In the 1960s, the United States’ NASA carried out the Apollo program, the third of its manned human spaceflight programs. The goal of the program was to achieve manned exploration of the Moon and retake the lead in the Space Race against the Soviets, who had beaten the US to the first satellite and human in space, and convince the American public of the superiority of the US’ technological capability. After three unmanned flights, mission AS-204 (named Apollo 1 by the crew, and officially…