End of The Space Shuttle Program; Beginning of The Future We have made much progress on our knowledge about what is beyond our atmosphere. We have put a man on the moon and have educated our society about our universe. We have built an international space station that allows human beings to live outside our atmosphere for years‚ researching and studying so that we may understand Earth in a much better way. We have learned so much about our world‚ and a lot of it is thanks to the Space Shuttle Program
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Space X’s Falcon 9 Successful Historical Landing On A Barge; Elon Musks Reveals Its Capability Space X’s Falcon 9 made a successful drone ship landing on an ocean barge in the Atlantic Ocean last month. Viewers applauded and screamed of joy as the narrow rocket glided down onto a drone ship in Hawthorne‚ California. This was the fifth attempt. The Falcon 9 carried the supplies of astronauts in the International Space Station. It can haul up to 22.8 tonnes into low-Earth orbit up from 13.2. The rocket
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Space Privatization With NASA landing their last space mission‚ the idea of making space exploration private comes into consideration. In my opinion‚ I believe that space travel should not become privatized. If it does become private‚ NASA’s efforts might fail repetitively‚ there’s too much people requesting to go into space along with too much money and effort to build these space crafts‚ and it is very dangerous for unprepared people to go into space. First of all‚ the efforts put into private
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ending the funds towards space research‚ and yes‚ there are issues that do plague us as a race. There is poverty and injustice in the world. While these issues exist and should certainly not be ignored‚ the funds put forth to space exploration have a major impact and are no less of a
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The space expedition has become one of the hottest topics in the last few decades. Many space research programs are searching for lives on other planets such as Mars‚ Jupiter etc. They are searching billions of dollars every year on these researches. On the other hand‚ there are many people‚ who believe that these space expeditions are simply waste of resources. Both sides will be discussed below and my opinion to which holds the weight will be given. At the outset‚ there are numerous reasons why
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The space shuttles are retiring for many reasons. First‚ their main job is to carry heavy items to the ISS. That work is nearing completion. Second‚ the shuttles are getting old. They have been flying since 1981. Third‚ the shuttles are expensive to run. NASA needs this money for other programs. In 2004‚ President George W. Bush said he wanted astronauts to return to the moon. Eventually‚ he imagined travel to Mars. To do this‚ NASA needed to build a new spaceship. This would be expensive. NASA
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lightweight space shuttle in the 1970’s‚ but they needed a test vehicle in those times‚ computer technology was not as good‚ and advanced like now so they had no way to see how the shuttle would react to heat‚ and stress according to Nasa’s website.The Challenger broke apart 73 seconds while in liftoff on January 28‚ 1986 which killed the 7 astronauts on board‚ and the reason for the incident was because of a booster failure.On April 4th‚ 1983‚ and saw the first spacewalk of the space shuttles program
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JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE Lachlan Milligan Part 1: Research of an Optical Instrument or Device The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)‚ named after James Webb who played a pivotal role in the Apollo program‚ is renowned for replacing the Hubble space telescope due its uncontested visibility (HubbleSite‚ 2015)‚ created by modern technology. The JWST cost $8.7 billion US (NASA JWST‚ 2016) and is scheduled to be launched in October 2018 and will offer unparalleled resolution from long-wavelength
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seen as an exceptional technologically savvy country through his superior to any other‚ achievements of being the first of many situations as a Canadian in space. Firstly‚ Chris Hadfield became the first Canadian in to walk in space‚ thus portraying Canada’s eagerness to participate in larger affairs further developing the Canadian identity. Space exploration was once heavily dominated by the larger powers of the world‚ Canada was merely seen as a helper in the bigger picture. The nation was ignored
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Shaylen Pfister Q4 EA1 Is space exploration the cause of poverty? Or is it other government issues ? Yes‚ the government has taken money from taxes to send people into space. It takes $10‚000 per pound just to put somebody on the moon. It would be twice that much to send someone to Mars as it says in Source-B The Cost Of Space Exploration. That is a crazy amount of money to send just 1 pound of something into outer space! That’s why taxes are so high in America. They use the money that we
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