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, predates 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 and strategic advantages against other countries. Various criticisms of space exploration are sometimes made. 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, including the first living being in orbit in 1957, the first human spaceflight (Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1) in 1961, the first spacewalk (by Aleksei Leonov) in 1965, the first automatic landing on another celestial body in 1966, and the launch of the first space station (Salyut 1) in 1971. 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 then private space exploration of the Moon (see GLXP). In the 2000s, China initiated a successful manned spaceflight program, while the European Union, Japan, and India have also planned future manned space missions. The United States has committed to return to the Moon by 2018 and later Mars. China, Russia, Japan, and India have advocated manned missions to the Moon during the 21st century, while the European Union has advocated manned missions to both the Moon and Mars during the 21st century. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License What theories do you have about space flight and exploration hundreds of years from now? Q. I think we'll be looking back many years from now thinking about how fragile our spacestation, technology and dreams of space exploration were. We'll have several spacestation located throughout the galaxy, and small research colonies on the moon and possibly mars. Beyond that it's an endless quest for answers! Any thoughts? Asked by bdhartma - Wed Oct 31 13:46:30 2007 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments A. I think space flight and space travel will be entering a whole new era soon. With the development of more sophisticated robotics, the miniturization of computers, and unmanned flight the obvious answer is that robots will be our ambassadors to the stars. Even in the earliest years this was the case for space travel. It is the most logical way to navigate the stars while keeping a lower cost than sending people, no risk to people, and a robot can be designed to go many places that humans cannot get near and can probably be desgined to outlive humans giving them a potentially eternal mission through the heavens. With robots becoming more human in characterisitcs, they will be our our first dignitaries to visit the worlds that we discover… [cont.] Answered by lee s - Wed Oct 31 15:27:04 2007 What will our space exploration look like in the next hundred or so years? Q. Last century saw the birth of space exploration. So what will this century offer to us? Possibly colonization? Asked by Rob - Fri Jan 5 13:04:30 2007 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments A. For a long time before cars were invented people spent a great deal of time trying to go faster by breeding better horses. While mankind has found a way to get off our planet right now using our current methods exploring space requires quite a lot of effort and expenses. Hopefully we will be able to invent new methods of space flight, life support and what else is needed to start colonizing space. We already have most of what is needed it is just scattered around in different places. No one is really organizing and pushing for space colonization (yet!) But by the end of the century... I will be disappointed if man is not living outside of earth by then. Answered by dracaena - Fri Jan 5 13:42:48 2007 Does anyone know were i can find a free space exploration game?
Q. I am looking for a free ware space exploration game that lets me travel to different worlds and take on different jobs on those worlds. I am not looking for a learning experience, I just want a good sci-fi space game. Asked by riley_117 - Wed Jun 18 23:02:01 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments A. Well, there is this AWESOME game called Orbiter... You should check it out (if you don't mind downloading it). You can choose different spacecraft like a Delta Glider, Space Shuttle Atlantis, and much more. Plus, at orbithangar.com you can get sweet add-ons like bases on different planets, new spacecraft, MFDs, and Star Systems. There isn't really much jobs... it's just a game where you can launch from Mercury - Neptune and land anywhere you choose (except the sun) from planets to MOONS! You can also play the tutorial missions and it tells you how to dock to the ISS, land on the Moon, etc. But one thing- try not to mess up in high-Earth orbit. You may fall straight back down to Earth. Another thing to be careful for: planets take a while… [cont.] Answered by Aaron w - Sat Jun 21 14:46:27 2008 From Yahoo Answer Search: "space exploration" From Wikiquote under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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