THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE (4 OF 4)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Luke 5:17-26
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The Ultimate Adventure (4 of 4)
Series: The Ultimate Adventure
Jeff Strite
Luke 5:17-26
OPEN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI7ox_0j-Y0 (First 40 seconds)
Back in early 1960s, JFK set a vision before America ''We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win…''
(http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm)
Within that decade NASA succeeded in sending a ship into space that orbited and sent a lunar lander to the surface of the moon. For the first time, man set foot on a celestial body other than earth.
Now, nearly 50 years later, America has a new dream. A new vision. NASA plans to send a manned landing craft to the planet Mars within the next few years.
Now, obviously this is a huge undertaking.
The orbits of Earth and Mars are such that only once every 2 years is Mars close enough for to consider sending a spaceship there. And even then (at our present rates of speed in space) is roughly an 8 month trip.
That also means that once a human crew reached Mars they would have to wait another 2 years before they can make the trip back home.
So, it takes 8 months to get there, 8 months to get back and roughly 2 years waiting for opportunity to make the return trip… that's about 3 ½ years. That's a really long time… and it's a very dangerous and complicated mission.
Of course, they're not going to do that for a while.
1st NASA is going to experiment with setting up a manned colony on the moon. Then they'll also be working at creating more powerful and faster methods of travel. And they'll send unmanned ships to Mars to set up a place to live once our astronauts make the journey.
But the key thing is this: NASA has a mission.
They know what they're going t ...
Series: The Ultimate Adventure
Jeff Strite
Luke 5:17-26
OPEN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI7ox_0j-Y0 (First 40 seconds)
Back in early 1960s, JFK set a vision before America ''We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win…''
(http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm)
Within that decade NASA succeeded in sending a ship into space that orbited and sent a lunar lander to the surface of the moon. For the first time, man set foot on a celestial body other than earth.
Now, nearly 50 years later, America has a new dream. A new vision. NASA plans to send a manned landing craft to the planet Mars within the next few years.
Now, obviously this is a huge undertaking.
The orbits of Earth and Mars are such that only once every 2 years is Mars close enough for to consider sending a spaceship there. And even then (at our present rates of speed in space) is roughly an 8 month trip.
That also means that once a human crew reached Mars they would have to wait another 2 years before they can make the trip back home.
So, it takes 8 months to get there, 8 months to get back and roughly 2 years waiting for opportunity to make the return trip… that's about 3 ½ years. That's a really long time… and it's a very dangerous and complicated mission.
Of course, they're not going to do that for a while.
1st NASA is going to experiment with setting up a manned colony on the moon. Then they'll also be working at creating more powerful and faster methods of travel. And they'll send unmanned ships to Mars to set up a place to live once our astronauts make the journey.
But the key thing is this: NASA has a mission.
They know what they're going t ...
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