Future of Space Exploration

What are the main purposes of the 100 year starship project?

• to generate support for NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft& to enable human beings to establish colonies on Mars

• to enable human beings to establish colonies on Mars & to help humanity overcome its problems with political instability

• to develop new technologies that will improve everyday life here on Earth and enable human beings to establish colonies on Mars

• to encourage public enthusiasm for travel beyond our solar system and to develop new technology needed to travel beyond our solar system

The 100 year starship project includes artists and science fiction writers, as well as scientists and engineers. What is the main reason for including people from the arts?

• Artists and science fiction writers are among the greatest critics of space travel, so changing their opinions is crucial to the success of the project

• Artists and science fiction writers are great supporters of space travel, and they are willing to lend their time and effort to the project.

• The skills of artists and science fiction writers can help in the program's aim of increasing public enthusiasm for space exploration

• The program is so experimental that artists and science fiction writers understand it better than scientists and engineers do.

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What main point does Mae Jemison make regarding Proxima Centauri, the nearest star?

• It probably will be reached by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft within her children's lifetime

• It cannot be reached for thousands of years, given our present technology

• It is unlikely to have a planetary system that can support human life

• It is farther away than the distance from New York to Los Angeles

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Which of the following specific ideas is the 100 Year Starship program looking at closely?

• ways to lower the cost of space travel and ways to enable spaceships to travel more rapidly

• ways to enable spaceships to travel more rapidly and ways to shrink the amount of time space travel takes

• ways to adapt spaceships for public transportation on Earth and ways to improve the human body to help it endure long space trips

• ways to solve political and economic problems that hamper space travel and ways to lower the cost of space travel

If humans someday colonize Mars, what must they do?

• write about it

• remember it

• improve it

• settle it

Which of these actions is an example of planetary motion?

• the sun's movements

• the Earth's movements

• rockets moving through space

• astronauts moving in spaceships

If future astronauts engage in interstellar travel, where will they go?

• from start to star

• between Earth and Mars

• between Earth and the moon

• anywhere within our solar system

How important does Mae Jemison think the support of the general population is to the success of space programs?

• the dedication and support is needed for a space program to succeed

• a program can succeed without public support, but getting funding is easier with it

• the general population's support has less of an impact than the government's support

• technology is the key to a space program's success, not the support of the public

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Which sentence best supports Mae Jemison's idea that the dedication and support of the general population is needed for a space program to succeed?

• Mars may be one of the closest planets humans want to colonize, but it certainly isn't the only one

• Mae Jemison described the 100 Year Starship project to an interested audience

• "The reason we're not on the moon has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with public will and commitment"

• "I believe that pursuing an extraordinary tomorrow will create a better world today"

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"Without the development of a method to warp or shrink space-time, or a new propulsion system- both ideas that the 100 year starship program is exploring- humanity would need to find a way to overcome some of its instability problems"

What is most likely to happen to space exploration if political instability continues?

• new technologies for space travel will not be developed

• there will be no lasting economic benefits from space travel

• length journeys through space will be threatened by a lack of cooperation

• nations that colonize other planets will merely move their political problems there