Sunday, September 23, 2007

Space, Developments That Will Affect Our Future and Research Papers

At each night, when you look up the night sky, don’t you ever wonder what’s out there? Many questions appear in our mind when we look up the night sky. Is there any other living thing in outer space? Do aliens really exist? How big is the universe? The night sky or commonly known as outer space is indeed full of mysteries. Nowadays, many nations have enhanced space development to explore the unknown. I believe that space development will affect our future and research papers.

Do you know how space development can affect our future? Space exploration is the physical exploration of outer space by human spaceflights and robotic spacecraft. Modern space technologies have allowed space exploration to become a reality. Since the 1990s, private companies began to promote space tourism. This can be a valuable experience for us as we get the chance to travel and explore outer space. It is the dream of every mankind in Earth. Besides that, with sophisticated space technologies, maybe we can even live in outer space someday. Astronomers nowadays are still doing extensive scientific research on space settlement in locations outside Earth, especially in natural satellites and planet such as the Moon and Mars. Space settlement maybe can solve the world population problem as the number of human beings in our world today is sky-rocketing. Space vehicles may also be invented someday and allow us to travel through space or to another planet.

Apart from that, I think that space development can also bring changes to our research papers. Nowadays, modern space technologies have improved by leaps and bounds. The dream of stepping into the outer reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere was driven by space technologies. Rockets are used as launch vehicles for artificial satellites and for human spaceflight and exploration of other planets. Rovers are the space exploration vehicles designed to move across the surface of a planet or asteroid. Astronomical satellites are satellites used for observation of distant planets, galaxies and other outer space objects while spacecrafts and space shuttles are used for human space flight missions. Other space inventions are biosatellites, space probe and aerobot. These modern space inventions have allowed scientists to explore the mysterious outer space and to discover new living things, planets and galaxies easily and thus they can conduct research and create new facts or theories.

However, there are many obstacles of space exploration. First of all, space exploration costs us a fortune. A spacecraft containing temperature controlled cabin, breathable air, food and drink storage, waste disposal, communication systems, safety features and medical facilities, alone is very expensive. What more if space travels do not achieve any major scientific breakthrough? Secondly, space travel can be dangerous. A spacecraft alone does not guarantee safety to humans as space travel is a long journey and humans may encounter problems along the journey such as lack of oxygen gas and get hit by an asteroid. Another obstacle of space exploration is that the outer space is so wide that it took very long time for spacecrafts and space shuttles to travel from Earth to another planets or natural satellites. The distance in outer space is so far that it is measured in light year .Human space travel will never be able to do more than visiting our closest neighbours in the solar system.

In the nutshell, scientists in our world will continue to work hard towards more advanced and sophisticated spacecraft and to solve the obstacles of space exploration in order to achieve our dream of stepping into the outer space and discovering the unknown.

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