The Space Race between the 1960s and 1970s
Abstract
“The Space Race between the 1960s and 1970s” is an analysis of the progression of science throughout the named decades and the impact the space exploration had on these achievements. With a focus on the telemetry system of the Voyager Missions, this paper explores topics such as colour photography, satellites, and radio waves. It will explain concepts such as Golay coding which allows for higher resolution photographs to be transmitted from space and radio waves allowing scientists to measure characteristics of other planets in our solar system (i.e., atmospheric composition). “The Space Race between the 1960s and 1970s” will discuss how public support – and consequently funding - for space exploration has declined over time and how this has affected the progress of organizations like NASA. The international space race was an instrumental part of scientific development in human history; this paper aims to bring light to both its successes and failures.
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