Spacecraft

“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” – Neil Armstrong. The Space Race was a competition between the two rivals of the Cold War, the United States of America, and the Soviet Union. The goal was to be the first country to have a man land on the moon. However, for this to happen, there had to be major changes. Specifically, the technology of the time had to be more advanced for both countries to be able to get to the moon. Therefore, the U.S./Soviet Space Race led to amazing…

Chengda Xu Erika Harnett ESS 102 April 9, 2018 Health Problems Caused by Long Term Spaceflight and Possible Solutions During recent years, humans spent lots of money and time on space travel and we can go increasingly further and stay much longer time in space. However, there are still many problems which keeps us from going further and health problem is one of the most significant one of them. Humans have been evolving for millions of years to adapt to the physical conditions of Earth surface,…

Gold has been mined for centuries, dating back to the times of Ancient Egypt. Back then, the mined gold because it was beautiful and also imperishable. They’d make jewelry, cups, and decorate tombs with it. The way people mined it in ancient times was by using a process called “sluicing”. They would make wood troughs with riffles set in the bottom to create a zone to allow gold to drop through. The box is then placed in a stream to channel water flow. Today, the method of sluicing is still…

days, humanity is much more experienced in this endeavor with the multiple successful missions doing so. Space exploration is the traveling through the unknowns of space and the research of extraterrestrial bodies using spacecrafts. This includes sending both man and unmanned spacecrafts meant to observe and travel to planets and asteroids. Currently, we live at the dawn of a new space age powered by technological advancements and the rapid privatization of the space industry. However,…

The world we know today would be extremely different if Sir Isaac Newton had never been alive or had never published his genius theories. Even today, Newton is still praised for his incredible studies and workings in the area of physics of the universe and calculus. During the time Newton was alive, it seemed as if no human mind could ever begin to detangle and determine any of his findings. He lived in a small village as a child with his mother and stepfather. In his youth, Newton supposedly…

What is leadership? The definition used in the english dictionary is the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group. When having the quality of leadership, you are capable of anything you set your mind to. There are so many good examples of people who have the trait of leadership. People often like to look up to leaders because they usually know what they are doing, and if they do not, they act like it so the group does not lose hope in the leader and project they…

In the early 1980’s, NASA’s Voyager spacecraft concluded that Saturn’s ring are mostly made out of water ice, and dark features in the rings that circle the planet at different rates from that of the surrounding material. Saturn has 63 discovered moons and 7 groups of rings, the exact number…

With the discovery of water on Mars, the life expectation on Mars is increased in the minds of people. According to NASA, it is found that early atmosphere of Mars was as thick as or even thicker than Earth’s atmosphere today. NASA has also discovered that the air on Mars, whatever is left, is leaking into the space at a speed of half a pound per second. The new readings taken by NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission, shortly known as Maven, show that whenever a solar storm hits…

Soviet Union launched Luna 2, the first spacecraft to reach the moon. In 1969, the U.S. astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission became the first people to set foot on the moon. The astronauts collected bits of rock and soil, took photographs, set up experiments, and explored the area nearby. In January 1998, the U.S. probe Lunar Prospector found evidence of ice on the moon. Scientists think that the polar regions may contain millions of tons of ice. The SMART-1 spacecraft, launched by the European…

The 1968 film 2001 Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick is an intense piece of work that frustrates and questions the audience due to the perplexing storyline. It is highly regarded as a film that accurately portrays space, has incredible special effects, and obscure concepts. Technology, in the artificial intelligence form, plays a prominent role in this film due to the futuristic elements of space, themes of existentialism, and evolution. HAL 9000 is introduced in the film as one of the most…