NASA : SCIENCE BLOG When it comes to achieving incredible feats of aerospace engineering Exploring the wonders of the universe And realizing the dreams of astronauts from around the world There’s one organization that stands out above all others This is the Evolution of NASA In the first episode we will cover the origins of NASA When World War 1 started in 1914, the United States lagged far behind Europe In technology and the number of military airplanes Great Britain had 400 military airplanes Germany 1,000 and France even 1,400 While the United States only had 23 In order to catch up, the NACA or National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics was founded In 1915 on a mission to change the face of U.S. aviation The research of this committee and its technological expertise laid the foundation for NASA Unlike NASA’s current huge budget of 22.6 billion dollars The NACA initially only had a budget of 5,000 dollars NACA received more funding in the following years Lea...
SPACEX Just a few years from now, in 2026 Starship is expected to land the first humans on Mars! And to get there SpaceX is building the biggest and most powerful rocket ever! This is the Evolution of SpaceX's Starship! Elon Musk the CEO and founder of SpaceXhas a very ambious goal for SpaceX. "There could be some natural events or some manmade events that end civilization as we know it. and.. or in life as we know it. And so it's important that we try to become a multiplanetary civilization, extend life beyond Earth, um, and to do so as quickly as we can." He wants humans to become a multiplanetary species. Meaning that humans would live on multiple planets. SpaceX has built some powerful rockets before, which you can see in the ‘Evolution of SpaceX’, but Starship is on a whole other level. In 2012, Elon Musk mentioned the rocket as the‘Mars Colonial Transporter’, but this name was changed to ‘Interplanetary Transport System’or ‘ITS’ in 2016, as the rocket would...
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