20 November 2013 Global Studies Yuri Gagarin The 12th of April, 1961, would be an important day in Russia’s history. Yuri Gagarin was an important figure during the 1960’s since he was the first man in space. Yuri revolutionized the Space Race during the Cold War. Gagarin became the nation’s hero due to his success with winning the Space Race, a competition between United States and the Soviet Union. Yuri had a significant impact on the Soviet Union and the world as a whole.
The Moon Landings introduce landmark controversy through political, social, environmental, scientific and exploration factors. All arguments prompt deliberation as to whether the 1969 landings can be considered a historical landmark. #Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon with Buzz Aldrin following 20 minutes after. The famous words of Armstrong ‘That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’ as he took his first step on the moon remain significant to this day. Armstrong noted that the landing had left a small crater on the moon.
An 1894 article proposed the idea of a fully metal aircraft, and in 1895, he turned his eyes toward settling space. In 1903, his manuscript "Exploration of the World Space with Reaction Machines" was published in Nauchnoe Obozrenie magazine. This and his follow-up articles are regarded as the world's first scientifically viable proposals to explore outer space with rockets. Tsiolkovsky's rockets were fuelled by a mixture of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, the same mix used on the space shuttle, though hydrogen had only been liquefied for the first time in 1898. His manuscript included the equation now named for the scientist.
The earth’s atmosphere was limiting how far we could see into space, so astronomers decided to bypass the atmosphere. The idea of a space telescope has been around for many decades, but only recently became a reality. The first proposal of a space telescope can be traced back to nineteen twenty three. Hermann Oberth known as the inventor of modern rocketry technology proposed that a telescope could be sent into space using a rocket. In the nineteen seventies the vision for a space telescope would become a reality.
The solid fuel rocket has assisted life today in many ways. Such as sending us to the moon, being used for fireworks, and for aiding us in warfare. Solid fuel rockets were invented in the 18th century in Dutch for warfare. Solid fuel rockets as weapons came to Europe when an overwhelmingly superior British force in India was defeated by an Indian rocket corps in the 1700s. The British were very impressed, and decided to develop rockets of their own to supplement their artillery.
In 1965, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) took our first close up picture of Mars. Since then, spacecraft voyages to Mars have revealed a world a lot like ours. (Mars Exploration Program, 1) “The planet Mars- crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of an almost familiar landform,” says David Grinspoon, an American space scientist. (Quotes on Mars, 1) Due to new research and technology NASA has found water on Mars and is conducting new missions to get airplanes or someday maybe even humans to Mars. Could there be life on Mars?
The Skylab Space Station was launched May 14, 1973, from the NASA Kennedy Space Center by the colossal Saturn V launch vehicle (the moon rocket of the Apollo Space Program). Sixty-three seconds after liftoff of the Space Station, the shield designed to protect it from meteoroids also to shade Skylab's workshop—moved without any intent. The shield was torn from the space station because of atmospheric drag. This event led to a ten-day period where Skylab has many problems that had to be taken care of before the space station would be safe for future missions. The Skylab Space Station was launched into orbit on May 14, 1973 as part of the Apollo program.
Cooper, however, is conflicted as he will have to leave his kids behind. In the meantime, the visionary behind the project, Professor Brand (played by Michael Caine), searches for an equation that could give humanity the ability to control gravity, which would allow Earth’s millions of inhabitants to leave and go into space. Brand, who favors a different poem to describe humanity’s reaction to disaster—Dylan Thomas’s “Do not go gentle into that good night”—also has the best office for a theoretical physicist that I’ve ever seen, with acres of blackboards, rich furnishings, and comfortable chairs. Brand’s decades-long work without success of some sort will probably feel all too familiar to many
Tsiolkovsky stated that the speed and range of a rocket were limited only by the exhaust velocity of escaping gases. For his ideas, careful research, and great vision, Tsiolkovsky has
His space flight idea was came up at that time. In 1883, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky finished his first treatise “Free space” which mentioned rocket must use jet propulsion. And then his article “The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices” is the first academic treatise on rocketry. He said the horizontal speed required for a minimal orbit around the Earth is 8,000 m/s, this can be achieved by liquid fuel rocket whit liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. He also provided Tsiolkovsky rocket equation.