Factors to consider in man's desire to explore outer space 22 Articles

by Matt Dubois

The space program is a topic that fuels great interest and controversy in the media on a regular basis, and has done so for decades. It represents one of mankind's greatest desires: to explore its surroundings and ventur...read more

by Victoria Jeffrey

Science has long promised to deliver new technologies and new ways of doing things and has mostly made good on those promises. So what about space travel in the future? The distances in space are so vast that we need a dif...read more

by Robert Williscroft

On November 18, 2007, Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg issued a scathing critique of NASA's manned spaceflight program while speaking at a dark-energy workshop at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. "The I...read more

by Scott Hayden

With all the Star Trek and science fiction fantasy programs notwithstanding, it's hard to believe we will invent some kind of "warp engine" which could deliver us to the most distant points of our galaxy. Travelling throug...read more

by hibernianscribe

Oxygen is the limiting factor, it is explosive and hazardous to store. Explosive rockets are necessary to escape Earth's gravity so this tremendous energy boost limits man's safe exploration of space. Man's unlimited imagi...read more

by Jeff Franklin

The Ideal Planetary Model Specifications For the Purpose of a Most Stable and Moderate Climate, Globally In our quest to explore space, especially for the purpose of finding equivalent or even better planets for huma...read more

by Paul Wallis

GOING INTO SPACE IS GOING HOME. The whole life of humanity on Earth could be described as a dress rehearsal for space, and the reviews so far aren't good. Humanity is seriously kidding itself if it thinks it's going to...read more

by Clinton Warricker

To boldly go where no one has gone before. Science fiction is wonderful. It provides fantastic views of our future in space. Some stories are truly unrealistic and some may be plausible. As some-one already said, space tr...read more

by Eddie French

on the night of 14th March 2008, as Endeavour, The ISS and Jules Verne track across our skies, I thought it would be a good time have a go at putting our efforts at achieving the goal of the human race developing into a sp...read more

by Matthew Ryan

One word: asteroids. Asteroids are the stepping stones to exploring our solar system. They are resource-rich rocks open for the taking. They are a miner's dream come true in real life. The Aten, Amor, and Apollo a...read more

by Kevin Myrick

We are ready to go where none have gone before, ready to do what needs to be done, at any cost. We have skills, maturity, stamina, experience, and most of all the will and determination to get the job done. We were promise...read more

by Aldo Bonincontro

It' s beautiful to dream and travel with fantasy across the deep space and the galaxies, BUT..... We must be practical and concrete; while the European explorations across the unknown seas and lands of the XV-XIX centur...read more

by Richard Griffin

Man has an inherent desire for exploration. To deny this would be to deny his existence. From the earliest evidence we have of man as a hunter gatherer he has explored his environment. There has never been a point in the ...read more

by Timmos Norton

Consider this. When I was in grammar school, mankind did the impossible, overcoming technological problems to visit our moon. Do you think people in the 1800's considered this realistic? Ever? Of course not, save some who ...read more

by Joel Stottlemire

Make Spaceship Go Boom! Ok so here's your basic problem; Spaceships are pressure bottles. There are kind of like a submarine in reverse. A submarine is a low pressure bottle designed to keep from collapsing in on ...read more

by Nancy L. Young-Houser

NASA archaeologist Tom Sever and scientist Dan Irwin of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, along with William Saturno, an archaeologist from the University of New Hampshire, are using remote sensing technologi...read more

by Ian Loft

There is a human predisposition to explore whether it is outer space or the bottom of our own oceans. The challenge of new discoveries, of new uncharted territories and the thrill of success are potent motivators that wil...read more

by Dryson Bennington

I don't belive space exploration is a desire, this is an emotion. Space exploration is a necessary step in the evolution of mankind. If mankind does not take this step towards exploring the galaxy, then the continuation of...read more

by Kevin Morisky

The concept of travel among the stars is nothing new to mankind. Ever since sentience took hold of the human mind, man has gazed at the heavens and wondered what it would be like to travel beyond our own world. Differen...read more

by Dean L. Sinclair

At the risk of "self-plagiarism" from another site (poetry.com,) it seems that a little poem, written some years ago, is somewhat pertinent. It goes, as follows: FUTURES The future of mankind, what shall it be? ...read more