Space Exploration
At the dawn of the beginning of mankind, people may have looked up thought nothing of what lay above them. The stars, moons and planets, were just lights in the sky which appeared only in the dark void brought upon by night. Then people thought about what was there, and soon after thought about how to get there. Looking back, countless man-hours were spent in development to get us where we are, from early aviation and now to space aeronautics. It's mind boggling just how much space travel has come from the past to the present, and only our imaginations now hold us back from the future. In the 1700's people were coming up with ideas for space travel and for basic flight. Some ideas included a hot-air balloon, a parachute and movable wings in the same design. Needless to say, those designs never really made it. In the early 1900s lots of people were still spending a tremendous amount of time and money to create a simple manned aircraft, not even knowing its potentials. Wilbur and Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina achieved that in 1903. In 1926, Robert H. Goddard launched the world's first liquid-propelled rocket. That one achievement would eventually lead to the development of
Early space exploration began in October of 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite. On April 12, 1961 the Soviet Union also launched the first man into space. Cosmonaut, Yuri A. Gagarin launched into space in April of 1961 and orbited the Earth during a mission that lasted 108 minutes. The United States then decided to join the race into space, but they took it a step further. The Apollo project began in October of 1968 with the launch of Apollo 1, which carried 2 astronauts who were bound for the moon. It took several tries before, finally, the Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. were the first people to set foot in the moon. In later missions, the Apollo project will have landed a total of 6 people on the moon. Future ambitions of scientists include using antimatter as a form of propulsion. The trouble with antimatter is that it doesn't naturally exist, so it has to be made in labs. Antimatter is also very unstable, only being able to stay in tact for several billionths of a second. Antimatter has the potential to become the ultimate super fuel since only 100 milligrams of antimatter would be needed to power a space shuttle through its whole mission. Only time can stop mankind from controlling antimatter, and then can we utilize this tool to explore even deeper into space. Both manned an unmanned spacecraft can launch artificial satellites. This has been done during the 1980s and 1990s. They may all have specific purposes as well. Weather satellites photograph the earth's atmosphere and measure temperatures, Communications satellites
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