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Space Travel

by Stefano Space Travel can sound cool to be in space, but it can be very dangerous due to fuel leaks, explosions or even get lost in space. Being an astronaut is hard work. You have to train for more than 4 months, have to learn to fly airplanes and camp in the jungle, forest and mountains in case the capsule lands in this places until a rescue helicopter get them and learning to eat almost everything in this places. Also after missions to other planets you are kept for 3 weeks in examination so they dont get any diseases from this other planet also you have to have your appendix removed so you dont appendix disease in space. The history of space travel was full of success and failure. Space travel was developed in 1949 when a modified German missile was launched. Then in 1952 Russian Scientist sent Laika, a dog which was followed by a Russian monkey. Then in 1961 President John F. Kennedy unveils the Apollo Project, the way NASA was going to get to the moon but there was a bad start in 1963 Apollo 1A blew up 1.7 seconds after take off, after lots, of failure in 1966 Apollo 7 reached space but had an engine failure and had to return to Earth, luckily they made it back to Earth safely. In 1967 a russian spacecraft was about to land in the moon but it crashed all astronauts died. Finally in 1969 Apollo 11 lunar module landed safely on the moon with Neil Armstrong being the first man to walk on the moon with his world famous words A small step for man one huge leap for mankind after that in 1972 a piece of metal of the Apollo 13 capsule ripped apart 100,000 feet over the Earth and the crew used the lunar module to return to Earth. After Apollo Project ended in 1972, the Space Shuttle Era started this reusable rocket would take off like a normal rocket, but would land like a passenger airplane. But Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after take off, all space shuttles were grounded for 3 years then in 2003 Columbia caught fire and blew up entering the earth atmosphere. In 2012 the space shuttle program ended and before in 2004 Richard Branson the owner of a British airline called Virgin Atlantic developed Virgin Galatic which made the first passenger flight to space and is available for $250,000 due to more than 4 months of training. Most rockets are made of metal and engines with lots of thrust that breaks a sonic boom. a rocket is divided into 4 part the 1st stage separation, 2nd stage separation, capsule and lunar module so after the lunar module lands on the moon it takes-off and is reunites with the capsule and after the astronauts get on the capsule the lunar module separates and crashes into the moon and the capsule returns to earth and lands in the ocean and a helicopter rescue them Rockets use solid fuel or liquid fuel that ignites and makes the rocket take off and as it is full of fuel it starts slow and as the rocket get lighter and lighter it goes faster and faster burning the amount of fuel to fill up an olympic size swimming pool a minute. After fuel is runs out the 1st stage separation starts after 2nd stage separation starts the fuel reserves and then the capsule and the lunar module head for the moon. Space travel can be very complicated and if you do the wrong thing you can die. Most rocket missions are controlled from the ground these days so if something goes wrong it can be fixed without people in the spacecraft for example the MAVEN spacecraft tookoff on November 18, 2013 and was controlled from the earth because it is the first time this

spacecraft is going to orbit Mars so if they fail they wont kill anybody trying to see how was Mars 4,000,000 years ago

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