Accessing Space
The task of placing satellites into orbit has proven formidable, and current technology dictates that rockets be used to access space. A rocket is a cylindrical metal object containing...
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Exploration Programs
Prior to missions to the Moon and the planets in the solar system our knowledge of what lay beyond Earth was minimal. Five millennia of astronomical observation had produced an in...
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Government Space Programs
While the United States leads the world in space initiatives and exploration, it is not the only country with active interests off the planet. Rivaling the achievements of th...
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Careers in Spaceflight
Human spaceflight is one of the most exciting professional fields today. Those who work in it are pioneers of an endless frontier filled with challenges,
adventure, and scientif...
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Communications for Human Spaceflight
The first serious proposal for space-based human communications was in Arthur C. Clarke's famous article titled "Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide R...
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Long-Duration Spaceflight
Imagine this scenario: You have been chosen as one of seven astronauts on the first human mission to Mars. You are four months into the three-year, round-trip mission. You sh...
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Earth—Why Leave?
Only humans have the ability to leave their home planet and explore, settle, and even alter other worlds, and many people want to do all of these things. What is the attraction...
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Space Travel and Exploration
Many people believe that the rapid increase in the capability of computers was largely due to the demands of the American Space Program. It is indeed true that the Nationa...
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Space Exploration
On July 20, 1969, the people of Earth looked up and saw the Moon in a way they had never seen it before. It was the same Moon that humans had been observing in the sky since the dawn...
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Spaceflight, Mathematics Of
The mathematics of spaceflight involves the combination of knowledge from two different areas of physics and mathematics: rocket science and celestial mechanics. Rocket sci...
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Introduction to Space Exploration
Mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet and sun from sun.
—Winwood Reade, 1872
Humans have alwa...
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Public Opinion About Space Exploration
We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon, and to prepare for new journeys to worlds beyond our own.
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Space Exploration
Space exploration is the investigation of the cosmos beyond the upper regions of the Earth's atmosphere using telescopes, satellites, space probes, spacecraft, and associated ...
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The scene was both dazzling and appalling as a stunned nation watched video replays of the space shuttle Columbia disintegrating in the clear skies of Texas on February 1, 2003. Like a fiery shooting ...
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Have you ever sat in bed at night, staring up at the thousands and thousands of stars up in the dark, black sky? Space exploration, is the exploration of space, meaning it is the study of planets, sta...
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Have you ever sat in bed at night, staring up at the thousands and thousands of stars up in the dark, black sky? Space exploration, is the exploration of space, meaning it is the study of planets, sta...
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I. As Konstantin Tsiolkovsky said, "Earth is man's cradle, and man eventually has to leave the cradle."
A. For a very long time man has gazed at the sky and wondered; What is out there? How can ...
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It must be clearly understood that our past exploration of space has had some of the greatest and most lasting impacts that mankind has known, and continued exploration will prove vital to our very e...
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"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for man kind...," said Neil Armstrong as he took his first steps onto the surface of the moon (Qtd. in Nash 802). Humans have had tremendous curiosity a...
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Accessing Space
Space Travel and Exploration
Space Exploration
Introduction to Space Exploration
Space Exploration
Space Exploration
