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With Elon Musk's new private company, SpaceX. A journey to Mars is closer than we expect. Elon Musk predicts that a man will land on Mars by 2022. His new innovative Falcon 9 rocket, which is programmed to come back and land on a platform once it is used. Making space travel much cheaper with these new reusable rockets. Rockets used to be a 1 time use, after they go through all their segments they just fall into the ocean and cannot be used again. But these new rockets make space travel cheaper. This private company could be the beginning of the commercialization of space by private companies, who sell rockets to bigger companies/agencies like NASA.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/14/us/private-space-travel-dreamers-hope-a-catalyst-will-rise-from-the-mojave-desert.html

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- The Saturn V Rocket was a total of 363 feet tall.
- It separated into a total of 9 sections, with the space capsule being that very small silver part at the top.
- President John F. Kennedy promised the American Public a man on the moon by 1970. And his dream came true, unfortunately, he was assassinated before he could see his dream come true.

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By: Ethan Laughlin

Article: The Apollo Space Program: https://newsela.com/read/lib-nasa-apollo-program/id/23728/

Summary:

Apollo was the name of a NASA space division founded in the early 1960s with the final mission of landing a man on the moon. A total of 9 Apollo missions that exceeded Earth’s orbit, and 6 of those 9 landed or orbited the moon. The first Apollo mission to the moon was in 1968, when 3 astronauts orbited the moon. The last Apollo mission was on December 7th 1972. Apollo spacecraft were launched using the Saturn V rocket, which separates into different stages until it reaches the moon. Apollo astronauts brought back a total of 842 pounds of lunar rocks, pebbles, sand and dust.

Vocabulary:

- Orbit: The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.

- Astronaut: A person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft.

- NASA: A government agency created in 1958. NASA stands for:
National Aeronautics and Space
Association.

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- When Neil Armstrong walked the moon, he spent a total of about 2-3 hours out in space.
- The moon actually doesn't rotate like the Earth, which is why we have different moon phases.
- One side of the moon is always facing towards us, one side always away.

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Summary:
So far space exploration has benefited us and probably will in the future. They have progressed our technology pretty far by basing real-world things off of technology used in space exploration. As space exploration progresses there will be more available job spaces for people, therefore unemployment will be less likely. Another benefit is that there will be education available, in NASA already they provide places where students can learn and be inspired in STEM and do other things, not just space. Lastly, you benefit from just being able to learn about things, the knowledge we will be able to gain and the opportunities we will have if we keep exploring will be a benefit itself.

Vocabulary:

NASA: a space agency that is payed for by the government.

Rover: a robot used to explore mars

astronaut: a person who explorers space for a living