Week 2: Space: The Final Frontier
1. What did you do in lab today?
We had no lab this week due to Labor Day.
2. What was the big question?
I think the big question of lab today was will humans ever return to the moon?
3. What did you learn in Thursdays discussion?
Galileo invented the telescope.
Chinese astronomer was the first person to attempt going to space by strapping himself to rockets (could be a myth we do not know)
Greek astronomer in 240 BCE measured the Earth, which is extremely complex (valleys, mountains, equator, etc)
Earth is like a lumpy potato
The last time people were on the moon was 1972, the first time was in 1969 (Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin).
1957 Russia successfully launches a satellite into space.
Russia sends up Yuri Gagarin in 1961 and he orbits Earth three times, this made the US realize they need to catch up on space exploration and they sent Alan Shepard into space in a Saturn V5 rocket which is longer than a football field.
This started the Space Race for who can get to the moon the fastest before the 1970s.
The US is the only country that has been to the moon successfully, Russia tried but blew up on the outskirts.
Zero women have been on the moon, but women were preferred to men for space exploration as women are typically lighter, shorter, and consume less food which would make the space explorations cheaper.
Jerrie Cobb, a female pilot had over 10,000 hours as a pilot, the perfect candidate, but NASA required jet engines, which were only in the military and women were not allowed in the military in the 1970s.
However, Jerrie Cobb’s father was a general in the military, so she was able to get the jet engine training necessary, yet still, NASA did not let her.
The US was supposed to go back to the moon in 2019, but it never happened.
The goal is to go to the moon on one of the poles, because the poles have craters that have ice which can be used as water, and the US wants to build a base on the moon to be able to go to Mars, which is the ultimate goal, they want to get there by 2030. The crew on the ISS is working on it, but it is unlikely to happen, it is a 500 day journey each way
Mars is the goal, the 4th planet in our solar system, it is extremely similar to earth, very similar day length (24.6 hours), a year on mars is twice as long as an earth year, there is evidence of past water and life, there is an atmosphere, it is not super far away, people are training to go to Mars now.
We had no lab this week due to Labor Day.
2. What was the big question?
I think the big question of lab today was will humans ever return to the moon?
3. What did you learn in Thursdays discussion?
Galileo invented the telescope.
Chinese astronomer was the first person to attempt going to space by strapping himself to rockets (could be a myth we do not know)
Greek astronomer in 240 BCE measured the Earth, which is extremely complex (valleys, mountains, equator, etc)
Earth is like a lumpy potato
The last time people were on the moon was 1972, the first time was in 1969 (Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin).
1957 Russia successfully launches a satellite into space.
Russia sends up Yuri Gagarin in 1961 and he orbits Earth three times, this made the US realize they need to catch up on space exploration and they sent Alan Shepard into space in a Saturn V5 rocket which is longer than a football field.
This started the Space Race for who can get to the moon the fastest before the 1970s.
The US is the only country that has been to the moon successfully, Russia tried but blew up on the outskirts.
Zero women have been on the moon, but women were preferred to men for space exploration as women are typically lighter, shorter, and consume less food which would make the space explorations cheaper.
Jerrie Cobb, a female pilot had over 10,000 hours as a pilot, the perfect candidate, but NASA required jet engines, which were only in the military and women were not allowed in the military in the 1970s.
However, Jerrie Cobb’s father was a general in the military, so she was able to get the jet engine training necessary, yet still, NASA did not let her.
The US was supposed to go back to the moon in 2019, but it never happened.
The goal is to go to the moon on one of the poles, because the poles have craters that have ice which can be used as water, and the US wants to build a base on the moon to be able to go to Mars, which is the ultimate goal, they want to get there by 2030. The crew on the ISS is working on it, but it is unlikely to happen, it is a 500 day journey each way
Mars is the goal, the 4th planet in our solar system, it is extremely similar to earth, very similar day length (24.6 hours), a year on mars is twice as long as an earth year, there is evidence of past water and life, there is an atmosphere, it is not super far away, people are training to go to Mars now.
4. What did you learn from the textbook?
From my reading of chapter 2, it helped solidify what we learned in lecture on Thursday. I read about Sputnik and the Space race which really fascinated me and I also learned about the evolution of women and space and how women were actually ideal candidates to be put in space, but men got to do it instead. I also learned about different space explorations besides orbiting earth and traveling to the moon. Overall, what I learned this week was very interesting to me.
5. What was most helpful?
I would say what was most helpful were the graphics within the chapter, such as photos of the women, the timeline graphic of the space race, photo of mars, etc. It helped break up the text and help me visualize what I was actually reading about.
6. What do I need more information on?
I think I need more information on what the US plans to do if they ever make it to Mars, like do they want people to live there?
7. What questions, comments, or concerns do I have?
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