The Importance of Ocean Exploration. As soon as humanity existed‚ people were tempted to explore and discover everything around them. This invincible desire has led humanity on its way of discovering Earth. And it seems that our planet is totally explored‚ everything is revealed and there is no place where any man has not gone before (or any robot hasn’t recorded). The next step is outside Earth. After the first space flight humankind concentrated its attention on exploring the galaxy‚ searching
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2010 Written 1 ESS 102 “The Real Reasons We Explore Space” In the article “The Real Reasons We Explore Space”‚ by Michael Griffin‚ Griffin elaborates multiple reasons regarding space exploration‚ aside from the justification proclaimed by the media and government. Griffin stresses his belief that the government issued scientific‚ economic‚ and national security benefits are exaggerated‚ claiming that the primary purposes of space exploration consist primarily of personal and value-driven desires
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Censoni 1 Mrs. Slifka English 3 May‚ 2013 The Race to Space- Ready‚ Set‚ Go! Today‚ technology growth is incredible‚ and advancements occur at a rapid rate. For Americans to adapt to new technology of CD’s from cassette tapes‚ it only took eighteen months. However‚ to convert from CD’s to MP3 technology‚ it only took an astonishing three months. What caused us to be able to develop this new technology so quickly? The Space Race can easily be named as a very important reason because it
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The biggest rivalry between the two superpowers was the advancement in space technology. In 1952‚ the International Geophysical Year (IGY) was established in which scientists stated that in the time between July 1‚ 1957 and December 31‚ 1958‚ solar activity would be at a high point. The IGY made it so that both the US and the USSR became determined to be the first to reach space‚ and so the space race was born. During the space race‚ the USSR made many launches that were very advanced and superior
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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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unlock the secrets they holds. The benefits for exploring space are extravagant there are asteroids abundant in rare earth metals and other usable elements can be found. Space exploration would eventually lead to colonization of mars‚moon‚ asteroids‚ and other extraterrestrial bodies. It has been part of human nature to explore and colonize the
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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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Strike in Space Case Study Executive Summary This case centers on the original 3 Skylab missions that began in 1973 following a successful series of Apollo missions starting in the 1960’s. NASA viewed the Skylab missions as logical successors of the Apollo missions and each of the Skylab missions picked up where the prior one left off. The primary focus of the missions was to determine if humans could in fact live comfortably for extended periods of time in weightless conditions and prior to
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Space Exploration Persuasive Paper Imagine you are homeless‚ sleeping different places every night. You rarely have two meals a day. One day you are walking down the street and the ground starts to shake. You look up and see a fiery trail pushing a rocket into the great unknown of space. And then you continue to walk down the street wondering if you will get another meal that day. Space exploration funding should be decreased because too much money is spend already‚ we need to fully develop the
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I think space exploration is good thing for this world because we might find pterodactyl next big thing in space. I’m just saying that maybe we find the cure for cancer in a faraway planet or find a way to go into the past like time travel space is too big to look at thru a microscope but if we spend money we could be saving lives by the thousands instead of 7.6 million dying each year. I think president Kennedy was right for having such a liking to the space exploration and for thinking about
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