The Beginning from Darkness

Space has been around longer than you could even imagine. Billions of billions of years have gone by since the beginning of darkness. Scientists believed the making of the universe was due to a extraordinary phenomenon, the Big Bang. Here's what Yuki D. Takahashi, a 3^rd year undergraduate student at California Institute of Technology said,

According to the big bang theory, the universe began by expanding from an infinitesimal volume with extremely high density and temperature. The universe was initially significantly smaller than even a pore on your skin. With the big bang, the fabric of space itself began expanding like the surface of an inflating balloon – matter simply rode along the stretching space like dust on the balloon's surface. The big bang is not like an explosion of matter in otherwise empty space; rather, space itself began with the big bang and carried matter with it as it expanded. Physicists think that even time began with the big bang.

 Now lets think about this for a minute. Back when who knows when nothing even existed. The area at which we occupy right now doesn't exist. The moon was never there or even the planets. Then all of a sudden from a tiny point from which everything was contained, it just burst. Everything started to expand rapidly and elements were being created. The galaxy is still expanding and space itself is right above our heads. In fact, around 50 years ago the first man went into space.

Yuri Gagarin was the first man to every go into space. It happened on April 12, 1961. He was a Russian astronaut and the shuttle that made it possible for him to reach outer space was called the Vostok 1. "The Vostok was a spherical capsule, designed to eliminate changes in center of gravity," said in an article written by Amanda Schupak. From that day on, space started to change drastically(around the Earth). The U.S. recently shut down the shuttle program of NASA but Russia continues to send people to space. 

I've explored enough of the history today and it's time for me to go.
This is BE#2
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Works Cited

Schupak, Amanda. "6 Surprising Facts About Yuri Gagarin's First Spaceflight." Fox News. FOX News Network, 11 Apr. 2011. Web. 01 Sept. 2012. <http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/11/6-surprising-facts-human-spaceflight/>.

Takahashi, Yuki D. "Big Bang: How Did the Universe Begin?" 
            Big Bang: How Did the Universe     Begin? N.p., 2000. Web. 01 Sept. 2012.                                          
            <http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~yukimoon/BigBang/BigBang.htm>.

Broadcasting Straight from Earth

This is Kevin McAllister from the NVCC. I've recently been assigned a mission, but not just any mission. I am to blog for the next 16 weeks. I'm not sure what dangers may lie ahead, or if I'll be able to accomplish this mission to appease my commander. But I will do everything that I can to survive...

I was volunteered for this mission. Why? Because it was something I had to do before I could progress further into my education. At first I was worried about how to blog or what to blog about. Then as I sat there and thought about it more I started to think what blogging really is. To me it is about expressing your feelings, your thoughts, your views on a topic. After looking up some reports on this mission that previous candidates have completed I thought to myself what would be a topic that really interested me and that could be an endless discussion. Endless. Something that goes on and on. Infinite. What comes to your mind? Well for me it was space.

Space is an important part of our life. Without it, many things wouldn't be possible today. Your NFL, NHL, soccer, and all sorts of other channels from your satellite dish wouldn't work. The intelligence committee wouldn't be able to gather as much intel on enemies as well. Cell phones wouldn't work well and you wouldn't be able to text anymore. Just about every electronic technology out there has some sort of space satellite that it uses to get information from one side of the world to the other. This is why I dedicated my time to talk about space.

My goal is to make space affect you. I want to make you really think about what goes on out there. I want you to visually make yourself on a planet and how it would look in your eyes. What might the ground feel like, the loneliness of being somewhere no one else has been or is, take into the consideration that there is a possibility for you to be standing where you're imagining because it isn't science fiction, it's physically there and real. I'm not really good on words at trying to convince you as if I were to talk about it with you in person but, I'm going to put as much heart into my writing so you can feel the intensity of space.

It's time for me to log off.
This is BE(blog entry) #1
Signing off....