The day that was supposed to change history forever. It was a night that I would never forget. Hi my name is Alan Shepard Jr. and this is my story of what happened that one unforgettable night. The year was 2024, I can remember it like it was yesterday. It was not a typical night like any other....

The day that was supposed to change history forever. It was a night that I would never forget. Hi my name is Alan Shepard Jr. and this is my story of what happened that one unforgettable night. The year was 2024, I can remember it like it was yesterday. It was not a typical night like any other....

A hydrogen fuel leak, which could have caused an engine shutdown, costly delays on the launching pad, and a year of technical difficulties didn't stop the successful launch of the $1.5 billion Chandra X-Ray Observatory on the Space Shuttle Columbia. Nor did it stop Eileen Collins, 42, from b...

The Challenger Explosion During the 1980's, the U.S Space Program or NASA, was becoming more and more successful. It was during this time, that many American's were taking space travel for granted and thus again tragedy struck. On January 28, 1986 the explosion of the space ...

My topic is space pollution. This is the debris from satellites explosions, things that fell off liquid that froze in space, and whole satellites that went out of commission. These are in orbit for now, eventually they will reenter earth's atmosphere and hit ground if they don't burn up ...

Since the Soviets put Sputnik into space, there have been many missions into space. Robots have done some missions and people have done others. Robots do not possess human judgment or the abilities necessary for solving problems. However, manned space missions are much more costly than robot miss...

Perhaps there should have been a cold war. Without it, many of the things that we use everyday would not be in existence. There would be no global communications, but most importantly there would have been no space-race. The war between the Soviet Union and the United States was one with virtual...

Mir is the Russian word for village, world, and peace. In fact that is what the Russians are trying to establish, a village in space. Mir is the Russian space program's efforts to maintain people for a long duration of time in space. Mir has completed over 81,350 trips around the Earth. It has bee...

The International Space Station is an idea for an international cooperative scientific environment. The station maintains a low orbit around the Earth. This is 217 to 285 miles above the Earth. The station itself is under construction while in orbit. Construction started in 1998 and will take y...