Space exploration By Leanna Dejonghe and Maggie Duke
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Space exploration is the discovery of outer space. Space
exploration all begin in the early 1950s with an act called the
space race. The space race was a battle between the United States
and the Soviet Union on who could get a space craft into space the
quickest. President Kennedy was determined to conquer the Russians
in this battle and become the first country to launch themselves
through the atmosphere and into space. President JFK speaking about
the space race to the media
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This continued for about 7 years with plenty of hard work and
determination. Unfortunately on October 4th 1957 the Russians
completed their goal and sent sputnik into orbit of earth for 98
min. With a feeling of being beaten and defeated we continued what
we thought was impossible, before we become to explore the
possibilities and options of traveling to space, people believed
the thought of it was impossible. No one knew what was beyond our
world and still at some points we still dont. Russians space craft
Sputnik
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In July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Edwin buzz Aldrin, and Michael
Collins were sent into space on mission Apollo 11. In 8 days they
traveled to the moon and back. On the fourth day, they landed on
the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped foot on the
surface of the moon. Being the first human beings to step foot on
something in space besides earth it became a very big achievement
for the United States and an even larger one for the world. One
small step for man, one large leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong
placing the USA flag on the moon
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The qualification for a spacecraft to travel into space is very
definite. Its a vast infinite space with no air or atmosphere.
Space is a vacuum. Things have to be completely and utterly
perfect, one mess up and you could die. Space is HUGE
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You also need very specific training to learn what to do when
in space and how to operate the controls. The suits also has to be
very detailed, used properly and correctly maintained to be perfect
for its journey into the universe. Above, is a cockpit, it controls
most of the things that happen while your in space, it takes over a
month to learn every control
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NASAs science foundation was roughly one-fourth of NASA's full
funds: $101.5 billion, or $2 billion a year. cost of project Apollo
was between $20 and $25.4 billion in 1969 ($136 billion in 2007).
The costs for Apollo 11 cost $28-billion (command module $17-
billion; lunar module $11- billion) As you can see, in the late
1960s the budget for NASA sky rocketed because of mission Apollo
11.
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The reason we travel to outer space and learn about it and
explore it is because of several things. The main one is the earth
in which we live is the only planet we know that has oxygen and
water to where we can survive. We search and learn about the
universe to see if there is any other place that we would be able
to live in case something bad was to happen to the earth and we
would have to leave. Although, we have found ice particles on mars
making us believe that there was once water on mars. Mars Ice
Caps
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People believe that to travel space and to explore it is
extremely unnecessary and a waste of time and especially money put
into funding it. They think that there is nothing out there because
space is an empty hole of nothing and/or if there is we will never
find it because of its size. Some also believe that to learn about
it is not important to our well beings because it will benefit of
us no way possible.
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Others believe that we are meant to know about what is out
there. People think that everything put into the study of the
universe is completely needed. As well as money supplied to it.
NASA (national aeronautics and space administration) has a space
program that studies space and sends space crafts out of the
atmosphere. In 2004 George bush discontinued fundings for NASAs
space program. President Bush discontinuing funds
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Leanna and I believe that everything put into space is 100%
necessary and worth it. Space surrounds us. Its filled with
infinite amounts of questions and mysteries. Black holes and
galaxies we have never heard of and 100 year old stars are only
little things that compare to all the things we dont know. Space is
important we have to know things about it. It has to do with the
life we live on and how we live. We are only the little things
compared to all the things that inhabit space. We have to learn
about the universe and what its all about. We cant be clueless
about what is out there, it isnt an option.