Persuasive Essay On Outer Space Exploration

Rationale:
For thousands of years, man had looked to the heavens and dreamed of going into space and walking on the distant moon. In 1969, the Saturn V rocket was part of the Apollo 11 mission carrying Neil Armstrong to became the very first to accomplish that dream. The famous quote by Neil Armstrong the moment he step foot on the surface of the moon was, “That’s one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind”. Those words simply sparked my interest for outer space explorations and looking into worlds beyond our Earth. Like the billions of people before me, all we could do was dream and imagine the vast world outside our atmosphere as we gaze upon the sky. However, my curiosity grew and I wanted to know what it will take for us to go beyond the heavens and into the space. It is stated that in order to escape Earth’s gravitational pull, one must travel with velocity of 11.2km/s and is also known as the ‘escape velocity. Which is why in this exploration, I am going to explore and research on Tsiolkovsky rocket equation to discover what it takes travel into outer space and to our moon by observing the Saturn V’s ideal velocity during when it first took Neil Armstrong onto the moon and whether or not it takes that much speed in order to escape Earth’s gravity.
Forces acting on a rocket:
To come up with a solution to our problem, we need to understand the basics and fundamentals of rocket science. We will first look at how a rocket actually works. A rocket obtains thrust by the principle of action and reaction which states by Newton’s third law dictates that “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The statement means that there is a pair of forces acting on the two interacting objects in every interaction. ...

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... with taking the gravitional loss, drag loss works out to be 19380m/s. The escape velocity to escape Earth’s gravity is 11.2km/s whist the Saturn V rocket exceed that number by far with roughly 19km/s. By understanding how a rocket functions and how the Tsiokovsky rocket equation was derived, I had a more in-depth understanding in what and why it works, not simply accepting what is accepted by others but seeking deeper into topic. This can be applied to other areas of study to ahieve greater knowledge, and make the most opportunity out of this informaiton rich world. Howevers It is conclude that In order to achieve such speed is beyond my comprehension, however for mankind for ahieve such feat is truly extraordinary. It simply shows the capbilities we as species can achieve and like Neil Armstrong said, “Thats one small step for man, one gaint leap for mankind”.