For many years humans have wondered what exactly is the black sky they see when they look up at night. They have also wondered what those white dots are. They seem to be small but are actually way much bigger than our Earth itself. When the invention of the telescope came out they could see to the black much more clearer. And that is when humans wondered if they could actually get up into space. Lots of theory's came out. One of the craziest theories that some people actually believed that they could do was to fly up to space with string attached to basket and some gooses! But then people finally came to their senses and the invention of the rocket and the space shuttle was released.
This report will say how astronauts prepare themselves for the big mission in space, what kinds of astronauts there are, why humans want to explore space, the main reason that most astronauts want to find out and talk about the positive and negative sides of exploring space. The reason why humans want to explore space is because they want to find out new things, to study the planets, the stars and the moons which mostly means Earth, Moon, Mars and beyond, they also do it to gain experience, to see if we can live in another World, for attraction and possibly for tourists later on, to send space probes to take pictures of space, to see and feel new things and they want to know what's out there.
For astronauts to prepare themselves to go to space they need a space passport. For part of the training you need to go in a Multi Axis wheel. To practice walking on the moon you need to use a bunny hopping machine. You will need to wear a space suit and go underwater which kind of feels like there's no gravity. You will need to practice lying on a life raft in case of emergency evacuation. Having a ride on a roller coaster will help make it feel like there's no gravity for several seconds. People also use the NASA KC-135 air craft to feel weightlessness. To find out how it feels like to do the spacewalk you will need to go to the spacewalk central. You will need survival lessons to learn these things: You will need to learn to work as a team, you will need to learn how to use survival gear, you will need to practice in-flight bailout procedures, you will need to learn the basics of finding food and water, they will need to learn how to make a fire and a shelter and you will need to learn how to use navigation skills like using a compass or a map.
But that's not all. You will to be familiar with using transportation controls. They will need to study about space shuttles. They also need to study about space stations. They need to learn about medical procedures. They need to be good at science and math. They need to learn more about public speaking. They need to learn how to use robotic arms for capturing and releasing satellites and building parts of the international space station. They need to learn how to use the space crane. They need to be content with handling large station pieces. Playing sports help because they need to learn how to be strong. And the astronauts need good school grades. If you do all these things then you could become an astronaut.
There are different kinds of astronauts that explore different things. Astronauts come from all over the world. But remember that not all astronauts are humans. Some astronauts go to explore the moon. Some just hang around in space to look around space and look at the earth. Some go to a space station. The first man to actually go to the moon was Neil Armstrong. The first man to go to space was a man named Yuri Gagarin. There are also astronauts that design and test tools. Some help engineer designing shuttle flight paths. Some help design computer displays. Some astronauts test space shuttles or rockets. Some astronauts go up in space to take photos. Some manage space training programs. If there are 100 people for example that want to become astronauts then only 20 are chosen every year. Different countries that go to space get a badge. Also different kinds of animals go to space. Like dogs, rats, monkeys, bees, frogs, cats and more. The first animal to go to space was a dog named Laika but unfortunately Laika didn't make it alive back to earth. The first two animals that went to space and made it back to earth alive were two dogs named Strelka and Belka.
Another thing that you should know is that astronauts from the Soviet Union are called cosmonauts. The word astronauts come from the Greek word sailor among the stars and cosmonaut comes from the Greek word sailor of the universe. There are two kinds of astronauts that work in a space shuttle. There is a pilot astronaut that command and pilot the space shuttle and there are mission specialists that work with pilots. These entire things are different kinds of astronauts.
Most astronauts around the world want to find out these things. To see whether or whether not there is life somewhere in Space. They want to find out new rocks and new planets. To find out new ways to get to space. So far astronauts have come up with these ideas: A solar sail that is propelled by sunlight, an iron engine that ejects positive iron from the back of the rocket, a nuclear power rocket that uses nuclear energy, a flying saucer (if true) and a space elevator that is very, very high. Some astronauts want to find out aliens are really real. If astronauts could land on Mars, if astronauts could travel to the stars and if tourists could go to space. America and Russia have this competition called the race for space and in the race for space they have to find out all these things first before each other.
There are positive sides about exploring space but there are also negative sides about exploring space. Here are somethings to discuss about exploring space. The positives are: Sometimes people do it because its fun, because it's beautiful and we want to learn more about space. In places like in China you are only aloud to have 1 child if you are Chinese because there are too many people but if we find a new place where we can live then that might change. The negative things are that it's dangerous, you can lose oxygen and a comet, Meteor or an asteroid might hit you.
But still many people feel that it is a good idea to explore space and they think that we should continue in doing so.
