NounSingular space exploration Plural space explorations space exploration (plural space explorations)
From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. Space exploration is the use of astronomy and space technology to explore outer space. Physical exploration of space is conducted both by human spaceflights and by robotic spacecraft. While the observation of objects in space—known as astronomy—pre-dates reliable recorded history, it was the development of large liquid-fueled rocket engines during the early 20th century that allowed physical space exploration to become a reality. Common rationales for exploring space include advancing scientific research, uniting different nations, ensuring the future survival of humanity and developing military/strategic advantages against other countries. Various criticisms of space exploration are sometimes made, generally on cost or safety grounds. Space exploration has often been used as a proxy competition for geopolitical rivalries such as the Cold War. The early era of space exploration was driven by a "Space Race" between the Soviet Union and the United States; the launch of the first man-made object to orbit the Earth, the USSR's Sputnik 1, on October 4, 1957, and the first Moon landing by the American Apollo 11 craft on July 20, 1969 are often taken as the boundaries for this initial period. The Soviet space program achieved many of the first milestones under Sergey Korolyov and Kerim Kerimov, including the first human spaceflight (Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1) in 1961, the first spacewalk (by Aleksei Leonov) in 1965, and the launch of the first space station (Salyut 1) in 1971. However, the first man-made objects to reach space were Nazi-Germany's V2 rockets, used as early as the Second World War. After the first 20 years of exploration, focus shifted from one-off flights to renewable hardware, such as the Space Shuttle program, and from competition to cooperation as with the International Space Station. From the 1990s onwards, private interests began promoting space tourism and now private space exploration of the Moon (see GLXP). In the 2000s, China initiated a successful manned spaceflight program, while Japan and India also plan future manned space missions. Larger government programs have advocated manned missions to the Moon and possibly Mars sometime after 2010. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License How Involved is the UK in space exploration? Q. I' am conducting some research and was wondering "How Involved is the UK in space exploration?" What organizations are involved that are UK based and are situated in the UK? And (if known) how much does the government put into such organizations (say per annum) into these UK based organizations. Thanks for any input :) Asked by Jono - Mon Jun 15 11:48:42 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments A. See the ESA pages on UK participation. First UK astronaut: Funding for space: uk to Mars Answered by starryskyn - Mon Jun 15 12:13:03 2009 What do you think is next for space exploration? Q. what's next for space exploration, I mean in a few years we'll be able to go on a trip to see outer space as some sort of amusment ride (eventhough it takes thousands of dollars for one to go on that ride.) I've been wondering, if we'll sometime in the near future, be doing things like you see in movies, you know having space colonies, or even on other planets. Do you think we'll be able to do such things in our lifetime? Asked by Animal Seeking Kindness - Tue Apr 7 22:35:18 2009 - - 21 Answers - 0 Comments A. I hope contact with aliens. Answered by Kieth O - Tue Apr 7 22:38:54 2009 Why do people always cry about spending too much on space exploration?
Q. At least space exploration can lead to new findings and technology that will benefit us in the future. Why are we spending 400+ billion dollars on the military? The only function they serve is to kill people and they have proven that they are not very cost-efficient. Asked by logical_christian - Mon Apr 30 17:03:49 2007 - - 15 Answers - 0 Comments A. There is actually a problem with space exploration taking up funding from space experimentation. Most of NASA would like to spend money researching things like dark matter, dark energy, and other very mysterious things in the universe. They think it could lead to unimaginable technology. But our government has decided to put that in the back seat, and put exploration in the front. Exploration, although necessary, doesn't have the same potential as the experimentation. Answered by Aviator - THE Resolution - Mon Apr 30 17:10:21 2007 From Yahoo Answer Search: "space exploration"
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