This week, I sent my topic idea to Ms. Bullis. I want to research more government-funded science research and its benefits. She okayed it, and now I have to narrow my topic down. Next week, I want to create a question and submit a topic proposal. I also found various sources concerning the 2010 and 2013 US Budget, and spinoff technologies that stemmed from both NASA and general science research.
"China sets course for lunar landing this year" describes China's plans to launch a rocket towards the moon with a soft landing on top of it. The article also touched upon the fact that the Obama Administration abandoned the plans for a moon launch allowed the Chinese to plan to put a man on the moon by 2020. This site is important because one of the only times NASA got a budget spike was during the Sputnik "crisis". China is about to put the US in a similar situation by becoming the second country to land on the moon.
The website, spinoff.nasa.gov, is a site that lists and describes useful and innovative technologies that at one point were inspired by technologies used by NASA. The technologies range from medical innovations to advances in gaming landscapes. This site is important because just a little funding to NASA creates a multitude of innovative and useful products that replaces at least 10-fold the money spent.
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