About Space Exploration

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. 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....

Money Spent by Governments on space travel would be better spent on Health Programmes and Educational Programmes on Earth

by Monique Barb - We are all aware of the third world. The third world contains countries in Africa, Asia and some countries in the Latin America. These countries are the poorest countries in the whole world. People are dying very day because of the lack of doctors and medicine. They do not feed properly, they have no clothes nor houses. The third world countries have the highest rates of...

The Space Race

by Herminne Tonita - "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth." President Kennedy's proposal in May 1961 that the United States should send a man to the moon was eagerly welcomed by politicians and the American people. Soon work had begun on the Apollo program, as the...