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    require new and unique solutions. NASA, the largest space program in the world, makes, “Each year, more than 1600 [space technologies]” (Bolden, 7). These innovations, apart from being useful in space have resulted in many lucrative spinoffs. “NASA spinoffs enhance many aspects of daily life, including health and medicine, transportation, public safety, consumer goods, energy and environment, information technology, and industrial productivity” (Häuplik-Meusburger, 126). NASA spinoffs have…

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    this has to be definitely the easiest question considering the location where we live. I personally play ice hockey with many people who work out at the space center for a variety of organizations to include SpaceX, United Space Alliance, and NASA. In fact, NASA is in the process of developing a charity team to play my law enforcement team. With SpaceX, Elon Musk plans on landing a Dragon capsule on Mars by 2018. He also is strongly working on civilian travel to space for transport and…

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    My First NASA Mission

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    On March 1st NASA had picked me to go on a mission.The mission as to take photos of Venus, Jupiter, and pluto. I left planet Earth to go to Venus on March 5. It took a while to get past the atmosphere and because of everything that was in my ship.I had fuel,oxygen,freezed dried food,plants,water, and medical supplies.After about 43 days, I had got to Venus. when I got to Venus I had taken pictures of it and studied the pictures to see if there was any form of life or anything not normal.When I…

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    Why We Should Fund NASA

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    NASA’s budget was 19.1 billion dollars (NASA), which is only .1% of America’s GDP and 30 times less than the United States defense budget . NASA is very important but it does not get the money it needs. We need to fund NASA more so we can continue improving our aeronautics. We should fund NASA more because it is helpful to everyone. One reason why NASA is helpful is how NASA creates opportunities for many scientist in the united states. According to NASA, they have over 18,000 employees working…

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    Why We Should Fund NASA

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    billions to build the shuttles to get up there. The U.S.A space program NASA has seen less funding each year since 1966 where it peaked at 4.5% of the federal budget down to 1% in 1975 and it still loses funding each year even today! How is NASA staying afloat and it is effecting how long it will take us to achieve reasonable and safe space travel. NASA funding is shrinking, this year the Obama administration budget proposal for NASA was $17.5 billion, below the $17.7 billion budge from 2014,…

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    The NASA Space program and the whole science division must stay afloat, and continue their exploration of space. The space program has been going on since 1959, and after only ten years of creation, for they had landed on Earth’s rotating moon. The Nasa Space program must continue and receive even more funding, and the opportunities created by the use and research of NASA resources, and the opposing point against NASA spending. The Nasa Space program has been a success for a long time, but…

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    NASA Space Shuttle is the first reusable space shuttle in the world and used to deliver astronauts and cargos into space and return to the Earth. The success of the space shuttle getting through the catastrophic forces when travelling into space and back again in serviceable form was credited to the ingenious engineers. First, the rocket engineers faced the problem that without any protection, the engines would self-destruct under extreme temperatures when travelling huge distances. In fact, at…

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    United States created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The creation of this government space agency was primarily due to the circumstances that United States national defense faced during the Cold War (Garber and Launius). In this time of reference, space exploration was prioritized greatly in the United States as it later became known as the “space race” between the U.S and the Soviet Union. Later on, NASA would be known to put the first man on the moon. This was not…

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    their presence and those projects that are seen as subordinate or pointless get the hatchet. Tragically, science -that doesn't have an immediate usefulness in practicality- is seen as an exercise in futility and waste of cash. In the United States, NASA can be an object of this level headed debate. We ought not to be investigating the close planetary system, some say, when we have such a variety of issues on the Earth. This, I accept, is an unfathomably myopic perspective that disregards the…

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    The government should continue to fund NASA because according to the History of Space Exploration Project we did, it shows that we weren’t able to see what Earth really looked like until Explorer 6 was launched. This is important because for the longest time, people thought the earth was flat. Then, after that we said it was a sphere. But, we never really knew what Earth looked like until launching a satellite capable of sending pictures of Earth from space. These pictures showed if Earth was…

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