Essays on Space Exploration Page 2

Science has lead humanity far throughout the ages. Even now we are only on the brink of what we can do as a species. There have been many people that have driven humans to do better and to rise and take the challenge. Many have conquered the challenge, while many have failed. Only then, have…

Carl Sagan gave an interesting lecture on “The Age of Exploration”. Throughout the lecture, he talked about the Earth being at the center of the universe and how that statement has evolved over time. He brought up many claims with reasoning on various points within the Drake equation. One term in the equation that he…

There are lots of things that are fast. Usain Bolt, arguably the world’s fastest man, can sprint at a top speed of 27.44 miles per hour. The quickest animal on earth is the cheetah of course, blistering in at over 60 mph. Humans are obsessed with speed; we have developed vehicles to help us traverse…

While growing up, do you remember looking up into the sky during the day and saying, “What is that bright thing making my eyes hurt?”or at night, saying,“What is that big circle in the sky with light coming off of it?”Well, I was the kid whowould want the answers to those questions; I thought it…

In the whole universe, there are countless planets, planets that are different from each other. For example, some of them have huge oceans like in the movie Interstellar, some have a wind speed that exceeds 20,000 miles per hour, and other planets rain glass sideways. Even though scientists have not found life beyond Earth yet,…

Earth has many resources that we need to survive, and if we did not have those resources, we would not be here. Our Earth is covered by a magnetic field which shields us from space radiation, the atmosphere that we breathe and the water we drink are but only a few pivotal resources we rely…

This era was known as the space race unfortunately the Russians were the first to have a human fly in space. In 1961 Yuri Gagarin flew Vostok 1 one orbit around the moon (Manuel, 2017). The United States responded to this two weeks later with a fifteen minute suborbital flight. Things started getting really interesting…