NASA

2020 they want to send astronauts to the moon. Before that they are sending robots to the moon. NASA wants too have a moon base by 2024 so astronauts could stay there for as long as 6 months. They hope routine missions will happen some where around 2050 are even before. Right now they are finding new ways to survive on the moon. Finding ways to be self sufficient instead relying on earth to give the moon base resources. They have thought of several ways to to produce air. But they also need to have water and food. Well we have found ice on the moon and recently found more then we new about. So that looks good gradation will be a problem but where finding ways to solve that to. After the moon the next step will most likely be Mars. Space travel needs money and good technology. So if we invest more money in space travel we will get more space travel and if NASA finds better and finds cheaper ways to build spacecrafts will have more space travel to.

Neil Armstrong was a US Navy Ensign. He served in the Navy for three years (1949-1952). His rank at NASA was Mission Commander.

The first artificial satellite was Sputnik I, launched by the Soviet Union on the 4th of October 1957

It takes around 5-7 years for someone to become an astronaut. And this is after they already have college degrees and engineering or science experience.

Astronauts in their spacecraft (such as the Space Shuttle) are lifted into space by huge rockets which accelerate the craft to "escape velocity" (about 25,000 mph). This puts the craft into orbit around the Earth, its forward velocity balancing the continuous pull of gravity. When they are ready to return to Earth, they use rockets to slow down, and gravity pulls them back out of orbit.

When astronauts travelled to the Moon, another smaller rocket pushed the Apollo spacecraft out of orbit, and carried it to the gravitational field of the Moon. Another rocket firing pushed the craft back to Earth.

Unmanned space probes have travelled to even farther distances from Earth, including the outer planets Uranus and Neptune. Most of the travel is coasting, because there is practically no matter in space to slow a spacecraft down.

Christa McAuliffe graduated from Marian High School in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1970; she then pursued her college education at Framingham State College, from which she graduated in 1970. She also completed a Master's Degree at Bowie State University in Bowie, Maryland in 1978.

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Sunita Williams (born September 19, 1965 in Euclid, Ohio) is a United States Naval officer and a NASA astronaut. She was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and then joined Expedition 15. Williams is the second woman of Indian heritage to have been selected by NASA for a space mission after Kalpana Chawla and the second astronaut of Slovenian heritage after Ronald M. Sega. She holds three records for female space travelers: longest spaceflight (195 days), number of space walks (four), and total time spent on spacewalks (29 hours and 17 minutes).

She is married to Michael J. Williams, she is Indian-Slovenian American and has a pet Jack Russell Terrier named Gorby. Her recreational interests include running, swimming, biking, triathlons, windsurfing, snowboarding and bow hunting. She is an avid Boston Red Sox fan. Her parents are Deepak Pandya and Bonnie Pandya, who reside in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Dr. Deepak Pandya is a famous neuroanatomist. Williams' roots on her father's side go back to Gujarat in India and she has been to India to visit her father's family. She is of Slovenian descent from her mother's side.

Among the personal items Williams took with her to the International Space Station (ISS) are a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, a small figurine of Ganesha and some samosas.

After launching aboard Discovery, Williams arranged to donate her pony tail to Locks of Love. The haircut by fellow astronaut Joan Higginbotham occurred aboard the International Space Station and the ponytail was brought back to earth with the STS-116 crew.

In early March 2007 she received a tube of wasabi in a Progress spacecraft resupply mission in response to her request for more spicy food. Opening the tube, which was packaged at one atmospheric pressure, the gel-like paste was forced out in the lower-pressure of the ISS. In the free-fall environment, the spicy geyser was difficult to contain.

On April 16, 2007, she ran the first marathon by an astronaut in orbit. Williams finished the Boston Marathon in four hours and 24 minutes . The other crew members reportedly cheered her on and gave her oranges during the race. Williams' sister, Dina Pandya, and fellow astronaut Karen L. Nyberg ran the marathon on Earth, and Williams received updates on their progress from Mission Control.

Like many of the other astronauts and cosmonauts she is a licensed amateur radio operator having passed the technician class license exam in 2001 and was issued the call sign KD5PLB by the Federal Communications Commission on 13 Aug 2001.

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Kevlar is quite common but there may be other materials used also.

Mercury

They wanted to win the cold war so they had to think of something that no one had ever even attempted to do. Which was send a man/men up to the moon walk on it come back and still be in one peice. Which of course they did.

At age 6, he flew in his first airplane, with his dad, Stephen. At age 2, his dad took him to an Ohio air show. Flew many planes, about 200 :)

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No - Dr. Jemison's only role was as a Shuttle Mission Specialist, and we haven't been to the Moon since the 70's.

The purpose of the Apollo spacecraft ,was to fly in space to the moon and also to land on it. we all no that right

astronauts do their jobs in various places, from classrooms, to spacecraft.The working conditions usually aren't bad though. The only problem would be if one was claustrophobic, however if a person had claustrophobia they would be persuing the wrong occupation. =] yeziir im smart=DD

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I don't know what you exactly mean when you say promises, but I can give you the goals of the Chandrayaan-1 mission. The main objective was to design, develop, launch and orbit a spacecraft around the Moon using an Indian-made launch vehicle. The results expected from the orbiter with the instruments on-board are: * Preparation of a three-dimensional atlas (with high spatial and altitude resolution) of the entire surface and sub-surface of the Moon * Chemical and mineralogical mapping of the entire lunar surface at high spatial resolution, mapping particularly the chemical elements Magnesium, Aluminium, Silicon, Calcium, Iron, Titanium, Radon, Uranium, & Thorium. * The impact of a sub-satellite (Moon Impact Probe — MIP) on the surface on the Moon as a fore-runner to future soft-landing missions. Some other scientific areas of study for the orbiter are: * High-resolution mineralogical and chemical imaging of the permanently shadowed north and south polar regions. * Search for surface or sub-surface water-ice on the Moon, especially at the lunar poles. * Identification of chemicals in lunar highland rocks. * Chemical stratigraphy of lunar crust by remote sensing of the central uplands of large lunar craters, and of the South Pole Aitken Region (SPAR), where interior material may be expected. * To map the height variation of the lunar surface features. * Observation of X-ray spectrum greater than 10 keV and stereographic coverage of most of the Moon's surface with 5 m resolution * To provide new insights in understanding the Moon's origin and evolution.

Groupthink

If an object is moving initially, then no force is needed to keep it moving.

The earth formed out of clouds of material that revolved around the young sun shortly after its birth.
Since the earth was in motion as it formed, and there's nothing to stop it, it continues in motion.

It's true that a force is required to CHANGE the speed or direction of an object's motion. The earth's direction
of motion is constantly changing ... and it winds up traveling a path around the sun that's very nearly circular.
The force that accomplishes that constant 'bending' of the earth's motion is the force of gravitation that draws
the earth and sun toward each other.

In January, 1986 the space shuttle Challenger launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida and exploded 73 seconds after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board. Christa McAuliffe, a teacher who had been chosen to be the first "citizen" in space was on board.

NASA does not disclose the salaries paid to astronauts, so there's no way of actually knowing how much money an astronaut makes. Further complicating the matter, there's not one salary for astronauts. Here's what we do know. The astronauts who are in the military are on loan from their branch of service. After they become astonauts, they continue to be paid by their service branch, not NASA. Civilian astronauts are paid according to a government scale that ranges from classifications GS-11 to GS-14. In 2012 the minimum salary for a GS-11 employee was $64,724 and a GS 14 was $141,715.

1. Enterprise - Not capable of space flight
   
2. Columbia - Lost on entry
   
3. Challenger - Lost on take off
   
4. Discovery
5. Atlantis
6. Endeavor

The earliest rockets were made from black powder. The Chinese invented black powder and used them in simple rockets like you would buy today to celebrate the Fourth of July. The loose black powder was packed into rolled paper and a fuse was inserted that is made from paper and black powder. Later, rockets were made by forming black powder into a paste and molding it as a solid into a rocket chamber. This requires a little more skill and is very dangerous operation.

It's National Aeronautics and Space Administration.