<center><b>"The United States is justified in spending billions of dollars on NASA space missions to Mars." </b></center> <br> <br>Throughout the course of history‚ man has dreamed of stepping foot on another planet. The advances in technology in the 20th century have allowed man to do what at one time was considered unthinkable for millenniums before. With the advent of the modern space program in the early 1950’s‚ NASA has performed many inconceivable feats. They have sent and returned men to space
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Galileo Galilei is a man known for greatly improving the telescope‚ discovering Jupiter’s four largest moons‚ and being the man who experimented with falling objects in the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He was an Italian astronomer‚ mathematician‚ and a physicist. He gave important contributions to science‚ especially in the field of astronomy. With his telescope‚ he discovered the moon’s spherical shape and rough texture‚ Venus’ phases‚ and Jupiter’s moons that do not revolve around earth. All which contradicted
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was first created by the United States government in 1958 President Dwight D. Eisenhower. NASA was building all of their own rockets and engineering all of the equipment for them to go into space. The US government soon then found out that the expenses that it would take to fund intergalactic space missions. “In 2013‚ U.S. President Barack Obama asked Congress for $17.7 billion for NASA
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English 102 5 August 2010 Should NASA Continue to be Public Funded In the early morning of February 1st‚ 2003‚ the US watched in horror as the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over the blue Texas sky (Simberg). The wreckage of the ship and the remains of her seven crew members were strewn all across Texas and parts of Louisiana. Even the most staunch NASA believers contemplated their support for the agency as fire rained from the sky. It had been nearly 17 years since the last fatal disaster
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Ball Aerospace Ryan F. Graves MGMT 325 From wood-jacketed tins to aerospace Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is a manufacturer of spacecraft‚ components‚ and instruments for national defense‚ civil space and commercial space applications. Ball Aerospace also has many other products and services for the aerospace industry‚ including lubricants‚ optical systems‚ star trackers and antennas. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Ball Corp.‚ Ball Aerospace was cited in 2008 as the 96th
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dollars of the taxpayers money to fund NASA every year. We shouldn’t be funding NASA that money when our economy is the worst it’s been since the Great Depression; we need to focus and spend our money on the problems here on Earth. NASA hasn’t done anything significant in space in years. And it’s incredibly risky and dangerous going up there. Arguments: 1) Our economy is the worst it’s been since the Great Depression‚ why are we even considering funding NASA 17.6 billion dollars when we have big
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The Martian Telescope by Bayne MacGregor It is a condition of the publication of this text that all the named parties within will have passed on before it is released. I have chosen to do this to spare those involved the inevitable questions and distresses. It all began with a letter from my good friend Howard. An excitable chap filled with whimsy and boundless enthusiasm but nonetheless most dependable. A man I had known almost my whole life. I had not seen him in some 2 years and so I was
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3 March 2017 Period 1 NASA NASA sent a spacecraft to Mars. Early in the morning they started to receive a series of beeps which means it has made it to Mars. This spacecraft was called Juno . It took a totle of 5 years for this craft to make it to Mars when it left in 2011 out of Florida. This aircraft has traveled so many miles it‚ it traveled around 1.8 billion miles. Juno is now doing a orbit around Mars. This is the closest an aircraft has ever been to Mars. Nasa now is working on getting
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mathematics by his father turned out to be his new passion. A fascination with telescopes peaked his interest and‚ in 1774‚ he constructed his first large telescope. He would spend multiple hours a day polishing and grinding the mirrors used in the telescopes. Observations through a homemade telescope created an excitement in gaining additional knowledge about the universe and the stars. By developing a more powerful telescope‚ Fredrick was able to observe beyond the beginning of the universe‚ where most
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watch the massive Orin take to Mars! Maybe‚ one day you might live on mars. I am a student at Rossview Middle School and I am here to speak on the argument of whether the government should keep sending money for the NASA programing. The U.S government should keep sending money to the NASA and other programs because we could colonize other planets‚ explore how our Earth came to be‚ moreover learn more about the universe that makes our Earth look like a speck of dust. You can’t really do anything
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