The idea of space colonization has fascinated the minds of generations of people on this planet and it is slowly becoming a reality. The advancements in space Technology in the past 10 years have surpassed what some thought would stay fiction. Some say we should colonize the moon, some mars and even others say planets outside of our solar system. These people bring excellent reasons for why they say what they say but currently and realistically the best option is Mars. While the atmosphere of mars is quite different than earths, having roughly only 1% of earth’s atmospheric pressure at sea level, Mars has a much thinner atmosphere which is also 96% carbon dioxide. The average temperature on earth is 14 degrees Celsius (57 degrees Fahrenheit),…
An expensive trip to Mars in a small rocket with malfunctioning technology sounds great… right? Valuable resources being used for a trip that might fail. Competition between other countries for the power of this trip. Even though Mars is a great place for scientific discoveries, is it worth it? People should not spend valuable resources to go to Mars because of how the technology might fail and how grueling the trip would be.…
In conclusion, sending Curiosity, an expensive rover, to mars took years of hard work from amazing engineers. Nothing can compare to the difficulties faced by the NASA team during the “Seven Minutes of Terror.” Sending Curiosity is much more arduous than sending people into outer…
Three, two, one, blast off. The ship went up in smoke as it rose to the atmosphere and launched the first satellite into space. This achievement started the Space Race. The race to the Moon would be an excruciating and long task for the U.S. and the Soviet Union.…
Is the space race really worth it? In a world embroiled in endless problems, starting from rising food and oil prices, poverty, hunger, illiteracy, high infant mortality rate, terrorism to the threat of global warming and climate change, one may question the significance of the world beyond ours. In a state of global political and social instability, is the space race really worth it? Taking into account the 8 millennium development goals, projected to be achieved by 2030 instead of 2015, and the prosperity the achievement of these goals will bring about, the space race does not seem superficial to it. The importance of human lives is irreplaceable. Thus, striving to locate extra terrestrial life forms is not worth the effort; especially when every 3.6…
The Space Race came to an end in 1975, with the launching of the Apollo-Soyuz project, the first US-Soviet space mission. The two nations have collaborated on space exploration ever since. The Space Race also produced considerable benefits for human society even though it fuelled tension from the Cold War. Space exploration required rapid improvements and advances in a range of fields, including telecommunications, solar power, and computer science. Today, many artificial satellites orbit the Earth and provide us with fast communication, television, GPS and weather data.…
During the late 1950s to the mid 1970s, the US and the Soviet Union, the two Cold War rivals, engaged in a Space Race, a fierce competition for supremacy in spaceflight capability. The Soviet Union achieved an early lead in the Space Race by launching the first artificial satellite into the space with Sputnik 1. The United States quickly followed suit three months later with the launch of Explorer 1. Unsatisfied with being the second to reach space, President John F. Kennedy set his sights for a much higher goal: the Moon. In 1961, President Kennedy announced a national goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Eight years later, the goal was actualized with the Apollo 11 mission. In the years between, there were copious technological…
The real questions that critics are asking is “why is NASA still around?” With over twenty people dying on a count of NASA being established, should NASA still be around, are their lives worth the money they spent on taking precautions that still failed? With NASA’s plan of getting to Mars, the people here on earth where we live and should take better take care of would wonder what would be next, what would NASA do on Mars, and how many people would die on the Mars…
Last year NASA discovered an asteroid that orbits the Earth. It orbits the sun and circles the Earth too so it is a satellite. This asteroid will be orbiting the Earth for centuries. This asteroid that orbits the Earth is called HO3. In the asteroid’s trip around the sun it spends half its orbit closer to the sun than Earth, it also passes ahead of our planet, and about half of its orbit farther away. It is too distant to be a true satellite of our planet, but it is the best and most stable example to date of a near-Earth companion, or "quasi-satellite."…
When colonizing Mars, there are a variety of different hazards that can affect the astronauts colonizing, including radiation. Radiation is found everywhere in outer space. It can cause cancer, death, and a decrease in blood count. According to the impact vs. probability matrix, radiation is rated as a 25 due to the high chance of being exposed and the high probability that radiation will negatively impact the astronauts’ future.…
Did you know that NASA has been using been using the government's money to fund their research? Not to scare you but it is all in good reason! NASA is mostly known for building satellites and other spacecraft. NASA headquarters are in Washington D.C. Throughout the entire United States there are only 10 NASA centers including headquarters. NASA should continue being funded by the government because they find new things everyday, they are also finding places for us to live they are able to discover extraterrestrial life.…
Since the landing of the moon to now, humans have progressively wanted to know more about space. David Shiga’s article,“ Hawken calls for Moon and Mars colonies”, references Stephen Hawking, a theoretical physicist and his devotion to have NASA place ten times the amount of there current budget of the world’s financial resources to space. Mankind faces nuclear Armageddon and must build colonies on Mars and beyond, as stated by Stephen Hawking. Student Halie Westin believes that, “ All this Mars colonization talk is out of control. We have enough problems on Earth that need attention, we don’t need to make more by going to Mars,” annulling Hawking’s argument. Hawking would respond to Westin’s comment with pure disgust being that colonizing space could be an insurance policy with the possibility of extinction of humanity, Mars already has had life there in the past, and through technology Mars can obtain sustainable living conditions.…
What does a planet need to have in order to support life? Earth is unique in our solar system because it is the only planet that is supporting life. Some scientists go so far as to say that the Earth is a “perfect planet” because it has features that are the perfect environment for living organisms; these features include our atmosphere, water, and a single moon. Earth is also in a place in our solar system where the Sun gives off the right amount of energy to drive the life. The distance from the Earth to the Sun determines how much of that heat we receive. If it weren’t for our ozone layer and Earth’s magnetic field, harmful rays would penetrate our surface and life would be exterminated. Everything the Earth has to offer us is balanced perfectly to keep life continuous.…
Cantril. In “The Invasion from Mars,” Cantril examines the panic in response to the War of the Worlds broadcast, demonstrating the multifaceted nature of media and connecting much of our prior readings using an interesting real-world situation. Cantril demonstrates how all of these factors might work together, revealing the potency of media influence, as seen by the panic response to the broadcast, not only due to particular elements about media itself, but also attributing the drastic disparity in interpretation of and response to the broadcast to differences in personality and background, as well as context of media experience,…
It is my opinion that if given a choice between a robotic and a manned space based exploration, it is better to execute a robotic mission. It is not worth the cost and risk for humans to simply explore space, except when the goal is specifically colonization. First, a manned mission would be much more technically complicated than a robotic one outweighing any incremental benefit resulting from a human presence. Second, the financial cost of manned missions to overcome the complications is not worth the projected costs. Third, funding robotic missions are indirect investments in aiding the current human condition. That is, the cost saving from robot missions could help relieve current issues here on earth. Lastly, pushing the boundaries of the unknown will always be fascinating to humans, but we would be pushing current human boundaries to explore much further past the moon, with our current technology. Advancements in robot technology can allow us to take the next step in advanced space missions. Some would argue the opposite; some would say that manned missions are essential to quench our curiosity and thirst for uncovering the unknown, our desperate search for answers about the universe, and to find life beyond our planet.…