NASA s space shuttle was unlike any other spacecraft built during the 30 years the program was in operation. Unlike the much smaller capsules of the Apollo era, which launched on the tips of rockets and splashed back into the ocean, the jetliner-size shuttle was designed to streak into space using powerful boosters and return to solid ground as a glider. The…
NASA s current mission to send an astronaut to Mars is driven by development of the Orion crew exploration vehicle. The capsule spacecraft is being designed to take humans back to the moon by 2020. In later years, by rendezvous with Mars-bound vehicles assembled in orbit, it may take the first humans to the Red Planet. These future possibilities are exciting…
Collaborate with other Boy Scouts and Discovery Place Science educators to earn your Space Exploration Merit Badge. Essential Info Capacity is limited and Scouts must register in advance to participate. Scouts may register for a maximum of two workshops during this weekend program. Scouts should gather at 6th St. Admissions to meet their counselor before the…
Until the twentieth century, the idea of space travel was too advanced kinds of scientists or writers with great imagination. The knowledge of space, if only you could see with the naked eye, was limited and often based more on magic or religious beliefs in reality. Since 1600, studies of Kepler, the invention of the telescope and Galileo observations changed…
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the U.S. government agency that runs the country s civilian space program, has accomplished some truly amazing feats since its inception in 1958 - from beating the Soviet Union in the race to put astronauts on the moon, to exploring the surface of Mars with unmanned robotic vehicles. So you re probably…
In this image provided by NASA With darkness, Earth s horizon and thin line of atmosphere forming a backdrop, the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft is grappled by the Canadarm2 robotic arm at the International Space Station. This image provided by NASA shows the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft as it approaches the International Space Station Thursday…
NEW YORK — Stephen Hawking wants humanity to reach the stars. The famed cosmologist, along with a group of scientists and billionaire investor Yuri Milner, unveiled an ambitious new $100 million project today (April 12) called Breakthrough Starshot, which aims to build the prototype for a tiny, light-propelled robotic spacecraft that could visit the nearby star…
Bruce Weaver | AFP | Getty Images SpaceX s Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from space launch complex 40 at Cape Canaveral, Florida, June 28, 2015. It exploded minutes later. The company is also more entrepreneurial than other defense contractors, said Quilty, who has an outperform rating on Orbital. Both prior companies had affordable, agile product development,he…
Talented women and men have long worked together to accomplish the greatest human achievements. And yet, some individuals who have played critical roles in these achievements, notably women and people of color, are under-represented in the retelling of these stories. Unconscious bias and the tendency toward stereotyping often result in an inaccurate picture of…
Exploration: Is space an important frontier for human exploration/inspiration? Yes - The curiosity of humans leads us to do many things. It is probably the reason for outer space research. The evidence that has been gathered supporting interesting information has just fuelled this curiosity. Curiosity is the root to all sciences. Archaeology, biology, chemistry…
This portrait of Neil Armstrong was taken for the Apollo 11 space mission. When you think of explorers, the first name that might come to mind is Christopher Columbus. However, the world lost one of its greatest explorers when Neil Armstrong passed away on August 25, 2012. He was 82 years old. Instead of crossing an ocean in a large ship to explore an uncharted…
Early space activities were dominated by the United States and the Soviet Union. However, as time went by, Europe and Japan also learned how to build their own satellites and rockets. Today, countries such as China, India, South Korea, Israel and Brazil are developing their own space industries. During the last 60 years, unmanned probes have been sent towards…
Common arguments and rationales for space exploration The following list highlights important essays and opinion pieces arguing for planetary exploration. The budget cuts will affect America s most experienced and most promising engineers and researchers. They may have to join the legions of the unemployed. Do we really want to put someone like Bobak Ferdowksi…
The first earthling to orbit our planet was just two years old, plucked from the streets of Moscow barely more than a week before her historic launch. Her name was Laika. She was a terrier mutt and by all accounts a good dog. Her 1957 flight paved the way for space exploration back when scientists didn’t know if spaceflight was lethal for living things. Humans…
Space exploration refers to outer space travel for the purpose of scientific research and observation. Until 1958 space exploration was considered purely a military venture, but in 1958, the United States Government launched the National Aeronautics and Space Act to regulate all activities that pertain to space exploration. The Beginning of Space Exploration…
Civilian Space Team Claims Success With Rocket Launch By The Associated Press A team of rocketeers led by a Bloomington, Minn., man has claimed success in their goal of launching the first amateur rocket into space, sending a 21-foot rocket an estimated 70 miles above the Nevada desert. Ky Michaelson, 65, a former Hollywood stuntman, had been working since 1995…
Friday is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire that killed three astronauts. I wrote the following article a few years ago, but my feelings have not changed at all. Space calls to us, and we must answer, even when we know we will lose people along the way. We can minimize this loss, but we cannot eradicate it. If you ask any astronaut, I expect they would…
Exploration is an important survival strategy in evolution. The migration of expansive species depends on exploring their immediate or distant surroundings for new food sources or safe habitats; it can also come as a result of population pressures or environmental changes. The human species has added another reason for exploration, namely curiosity. This intellectual…
Members of the international space community recently gathered in Guadalajara, Mexico for the 2016 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) to discuss current and emerging issues in the space sector. This year in particular, major launch providers took the opportunity to provide critical updates on their plans to develop the next wave of innovative launch vehicles…
The Trump administration is seriously considering a major new initiative to privatize much of the space sector, promote a return to the moon by 2020, and aim for Mars and other Solar System targets soon thereafter. This, according to Politico.com’s Bryan Bender, citing Trump administration internal documents obtained by Politico. The central aim of the administration’s…
Before the computer, proto-quantitative geography was developed with the aid of various calculating machines, but it was only after Herman Hollerith (1860–1929) combined punched cards with the then-recent electromagnetic inventions that it became possible to count and classify in a much shorter time and with greater detail and precision than by any previous methods…
