Author's note: I am writing this because I am interested in space and all the inventions and scientific discoveries and I am trying to work on vocabulary.
How many inventions can you name off the top of your head? Some people would be able to name a few inventions and some might be able to name a lot of inventions. Well how many of those inventions do you think have helped our exploration and understanding of space? Maybe just a few of them, maybe half, maybe even all of them. Now think of how many of our Space discoveries could help the Earth be a better place for everyone. It is time to begin Man's journey with space and what happened then and now with our exploration of space.
Where should we begin? How about the beginning of man’s exploration of space. Yes I am talking about the SPACE RACE between the U.S.A and the U.S.S.R. The space race started with the U.S.S.R. launching Sputnik 1 into space in 1957, and ended with the co-operative Apollo-Soyuz Test Project human spaceflight mission in 1975. during the space race there were many great achievements such as the first space walk, the first man in space, the first manned aircraft in space, and the first man on the moon. That was why the space race was one of the most important parts of Earth’s history.
But how did we even get to the space race idea with man’s first look at the universe. The two big theories about our universe lit the fire of space exploration. The first theory suggested that Earth was the center of the universe because of how the sun rose in the east and set in the west as if it circled around us. The first theory was proven to be false when Galileo found that while he was looking at the stars through his telescope one night and saw one of the stars seem to disappear. He later discovered that it was actually one of Jupiter’s moons circle around it and that gave rise to the theory that the sun was the center of the universe which had some truth to it but was wrong that the sun was the center of the whole universe when it is actually the center of our solar system. This theory was called the Copernicus theory, ever hear of it?
Okay now I am going to get a little caught up with the present. Have any of you heard of Spirit and Opportunity? Well they are really famous for helping us with our exploration of space. Now this might be confusing. Right now both versions of Spirit and Opportunity are helping us. The first versions I am talking about are the opportunities we are getting and our spirit to help us keep going. The second versions are the Spirit and Opportunity Mars Rovers. This year in 2011 Spirit and Opportunity are turning six. This is their sixth year on Mars. They were only thought that they would keep transmitting for 90 days and then something might have gone wrong, but as you know both of them are still going strong, but NASA says that Spirit might not make it to seven. Spirit is right now trapped in a sand trap and trying to get out. With Mars winter approaching NASA is trying their best to get Spirit over the Mars equator and into summertime on Mars. Opportunity is safe on the other side and transmitting a lot of data back to Earth and will hopefully continue to do so for a long time in to the future.
Two more space probes are in our solar system currently but one of them is close to leaving our solar system. Voyager 1 has com close to our solar systems edge and closer to leaving our solar system. Voyager 1 is currently 17,344,660,483km from the sun and still going out farther. Voyager 1 is right now trying to get out of our system through a huge mass of heat with no solar wind at all. The second space probe Voyager 2 is currently on the outer reaches of our solar system transmitting data to us. Voyager 2 sent back different data for a while that scientists could not figure out. Some citizens believed that it was because of aliens. A few days later NASA discovered that it was only a small glitch in the probes system and was being repaired. Now Voyager 1 and 2 are transmitting data back to us and are still on the outer reaches of our solar system. Let’s hope they keep transmitting for a long time to come.
So did you think about what I said? I hope you did because now I want you to post it in a comment. Other than that I hope you liked my passage, and I hope you comment it. I wrote this passage to make you think about how much we still have to learn about space and how much we can learn from it. Space is not the final frontier in my eyes but it is the beginning of a new one that will continue to teach us about new technology and new discoveries.
Where should we begin? How about the beginning of man’s exploration of space. Yes I am talking about the SPACE RACE between the U.S.A and the U.S.S.R. The space race started with the U.S.S.R. launching Sputnik 1 into space in 1957, and ended with the co-operative Apollo-Soyuz Test Project human spaceflight mission in 1975. during the space race there were many great achievements such as the first space walk, the first man in space, the first manned aircraft in space, and the first man on the moon. That was why the space race was one of the most important parts of Earth’s history.
But how did we even get to the space race idea with man’s first look at the universe. The two big theories about our universe lit the fire of space exploration. The first theory suggested that Earth was the center of the universe because of how the sun rose in the east and set in the west as if it circled around us. The first theory was proven to be false when Galileo found that while he was looking at the stars through his telescope one night and saw one of the stars seem to disappear. He later discovered that it was actually one of Jupiter’s moons circle around it and that gave rise to the theory that the sun was the center of the universe which had some truth to it but was wrong that the sun was the center of the whole universe when it is actually the center of our solar system. This theory was called the Copernicus theory, ever hear of it?
Okay now I am going to get a little caught up with the present. Have any of you heard of Spirit and Opportunity? Well they are really famous for helping us with our exploration of space. Now this might be confusing. Right now both versions of Spirit and Opportunity are helping us. The first versions I am talking about are the opportunities we are getting and our spirit to help us keep going. The second versions are the Spirit and Opportunity Mars Rovers. This year in 2011 Spirit and Opportunity are turning six. This is their sixth year on Mars. They were only thought that they would keep transmitting for 90 days and then something might have gone wrong, but as you know both of them are still going strong, but NASA says that Spirit might not make it to seven. Spirit is right now trapped in a sand trap and trying to get out. With Mars winter approaching NASA is trying their best to get Spirit over the Mars equator and into summertime on Mars. Opportunity is safe on the other side and transmitting a lot of data back to Earth and will hopefully continue to do so for a long time in to the future.
Two more space probes are in our solar system currently but one of them is close to leaving our solar system. Voyager 1 has com close to our solar systems edge and closer to leaving our solar system. Voyager 1 is currently 17,344,660,483km from the sun and still going out farther. Voyager 1 is right now trying to get out of our system through a huge mass of heat with no solar wind at all. The second space probe Voyager 2 is currently on the outer reaches of our solar system transmitting data to us. Voyager 2 sent back different data for a while that scientists could not figure out. Some citizens believed that it was because of aliens. A few days later NASA discovered that it was only a small glitch in the probes system and was being repaired. Now Voyager 1 and 2 are transmitting data back to us and are still on the outer reaches of our solar system. Let’s hope they keep transmitting for a long time to come.
So did you think about what I said? I hope you did because now I want you to post it in a comment. Other than that I hope you liked my passage, and I hope you comment it. I wrote this passage to make you think about how much we still have to learn about space and how much we can learn from it. Space is not the final frontier in my eyes but it is the beginning of a new one that will continue to teach us about new technology and new discoveries.
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