When is a space mission too risky? By Los Angeles Times, adapted by Newsela staff
On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced its first astronaut class, the Mercury 7. Front row (from left) Walter M. Schirra Jr., Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, John H. Glenn Jr. and M. Scott Carpenter; back row (from left) Alan B. Shepard Jr., Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom and L. Gordon Cooper Jr. Photo: NASA
Blog Post Assignment:
What are some of the risks of traveling to space?
Do you think these risks are worth traveling to space? Why or why not?
You must use evidence from the text to support your answer.
The risks are getting cancer and might have bone mass loose and blurred vision. These risks are worth traveling to space because it might be awesome to go to space and going to space is more important. In the article it says that more good harm should come to the missions.
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James C.
4/10/2014 06:24:52 am
Ms. Brennan, my binder says that my browser is not supported to the new Pro made.
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Ms. Brennan
4/10/2014 06:40:01 am
You may need to use the library's computers from now on. If you have an email address I can copy and paste the article to you.
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Yamilex
4/10/2014 06:25:08 am
some risk is getting cancer blurry vision and bone mass. these risk are worth it because one day you might be awarded are, be honerd. further more in the text it says good harm come to missions. so, I basicly think it is worth it
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Ms. Brennan
4/10/2014 06:41:30 am
Great job! Please make sure you are restating the question!
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George A
4/10/2014 07:04:13 am
There were some risks traveling to space one was cancer another one is blurred vision and another is loss of bone mass. This isn't worth it because people get hurt just going to space.
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Esther 0_0
4/10/2014 07:32:09 am
it is a risk because there is a chance you cant come back.Yes because if u cant come back than y take the risk to even go.
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Dren Sapunxhiu
4/10/2014 08:13:25 am
The health issues of space travel are: radiation sickness, bone loss, and vision problems. Radiation sickness happens when too much solar radiation is exposed to humans. Bone loss comes from too much time in microgravity. Certain vision problems occur from eye contact with the sun. The risks aren't worth traveling to space because no matter how much practice you do to resist the issues, you can still become ill. Scientists have to figure out advanced ways to resist the illnesses so that none of the astronauts die during future space missions.
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Sadie
4/10/2014 08:30:49 am
The risk are getting cancer and bone loss and vision problems are just a couple of risk they take also blurred vision. These risk are worth traveling to space because radiation comes from the energy in space and can cause many health problems like cancer. But short list of the danger.
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$Kelly W$ ^_^ +_+ $_$
4/10/2014 08:33:02 am
Some risks of traveling to space are space radiation that make them sick,bone loss,and vision can be blurred.These risks are not worth traveling in space because radiation comes from the energy in space.Also,it can cause many health problems including cancer.
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Alyssa$$$$$$@@@@@
4/10/2014 09:10:51 am
The risks will cause bad eye sight vision and bone mass.No,because the blurry ness can cause even more promblem then it already has
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DANA
4/10/2014 10:51:22 am
some risks of going to mars or also known as the red planet are blurry vision, cancer, and sickness. These risks are worth it because NASA can discover something new in space. Studying mars can be done.
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Amy
4/10/2014 11:32:03 am
The risk of of traveling to space is that you can get blurry vision and bone mass.I think you can get rewarded because every time you come back you get rewarded