Space Exploration is beneficial to Society Why humans are curious about the space? For a long time, humanity’s interest in the heavens remained unchanged. People are driven to explore unknown and discover the new worlds at all the times, but lack of knowledge and technology kept limiting them from the exploration. Nowadays, as the technology improves, humans became more tangible to take a step to the new world and challenge the undiscovered world. Space, is the place where humans don’t know much about, and to resolve the curiosity, many notable scientists are studying about the space exploration. If the resolution of the curiosity is the only reason for the exploration, we can’t say that it is beneficial to society. However, from the process …show more content…
A serious disease might lead people to the death, natural disasters possibly will occur, or end of earth might come without any warning and take innocent people’s lives away. Regardless of this fact, there are still many people arguing that the space exploration is waste of money. Actually, the amount of money on the national budget always looks huge, but it is not really huge compared to other areas that the money was used. Furthermore, I believe that investing money on space exploration is same as people buying insurance. If space exploration succeeds, humans will doubtless find a new planet to live on and become safe, and investing money on space exploration will just turn out to be the preparation for unclear future. In many cases, people should think about the whole first, but not the individuals, in order to benefit everyone in the society. If they use most of the money to help the poor people, but not use any money to prepare for future, people would suffer from the devastation at the end. For this reason, humans must use money on space exploration. Space exploration definitely will become the permanent aid and benefit the …show more content…
Those data not only can let humans expand the knowledge of astronomy, it could help people to understand more about their lovely home, the earth. Humans would be able to detect the natural disasters like earthquake or tsunami earlier and reduce the damage. Additionally, if humans find out the new living things on the other planet, people would have more diverse perspective, which could lead to innovation and invention of new devices, and improve the quality of humans’ life. They might contact with the aliens and create a new history too. Supplementary, more people will find job more easily since they are skilled and educated. Space exploration benefits education in many ways and education benefits the society. Space exploration would make a nation more powerful and stronger since space exploration allows the nation to expand their territory. During the process of space exploration, a new planet which is able for people to live on would probably be found. Naturally, many other countries would invest money to the nation which found the planet, so that they could have place to live on in the future. Those money could then be used to help the poor people or in many other ways to benefit the society. The nation would then turn out to be powerful, lead the space exploration and benefit their
Samuel Crompton says,”Space exploration served as another dramatic arena for Cold War competition.”(Crompton 56). The real reason that the United States joined the Space Race was to compete with the soviet union. JFK makes this very clear. The Soviets were ahead of us and this was unacceptable, being behind technologically was detrimental to morale.The Cold War wasn’t really a war at all. It was just an arms race, the space race was just an extension of the arms race. It was never really intended to have any scientific, technological, or strategic benefits. Dwight D. Eisenhower may have planned for the space program to focus on science, but when kennedy took the office he used NASA as a piece of propaganda. He never had any intention of using the space program for research. When Kennedy was first deciding whether or not to create a space program he sent a memo to his vice president Lyndon B. Johnson asking him to research a few things. None of JFK’s questions had anything to do with science or technology. They were all about the Soviet Union 's space program. The first questions was, “Do we have a chance of beating the Soviets by putting a laboratory in space, or by a trip around the moon, or by a rocket land on the moon, or by a rocket go to the moon and back with a man.”(Kennedy). JFK’s sole interest was beating the Soviets. He didn’t care about any other benefits. Everything else came second to beating the
The space program and NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has influenced Florida over the years. They have influenced the growth, economics, and culture in Florida. Space exploration has led to new discoveries and research. Without the space program and NASA and space exploration the world would not be where it is today with technology, communication, cultures etc.
This Interview was with Eddy the Eco-Dog and Julie Payette on Kidswebtv and they discussed about astronauts role in space and why we explore space and Julie Payette said that we explore in order to gain knowledge and understanding of our place in this solar system and this universe.18 (see Appendix D for the actual
Have you ever wondered what Earth was like without space exploration? In the story Leaving Main Street the author states, “The United States has more important things to spend money on.” On the other hand some people believe that successful space programs adds to our economy,national prestige,create jobs,and improves national security. We shouldn't spend valuable resources on space exploration, because we could end hunger and poverty.
Space exploration has changed and developed since the first man was sent into space. Advanced rockets, new computer technology, and remote controlled robots are only a few of the things that made space travel possible. Even though this technology was efficient, it was not cheap. When a rocket was sent into space, only the capsule holding the astronauts returned to space. This expensive way of space travel was forever changed with the creation of the space shuttle. The Columbia space shuttle was important to space exploration because it used new technology that changed space travel, completed missions that other spacecraft could not, and brought new people into space.
This topic is important because this is our future. This is the nations money, should we be willing to spend this money for knowledge or should we be using this for issues here on Earth? We explore or we do not explore. We send live beings to space or robots. The Space, Policy, and Society Research Group Massachusetts Institute of Technology stresses the importance of space flight when they say “The recent Bush vision gives a representative set; search for habitable worlds away from Earth, possibly leading to the discovery of present or past life on other planets, develop a new technology; inspire children to study and seek careers in science, technology, engineering, and math; and symbolize American democracy to the world.” The essence of what they are saying is space flight is important to us as a nation because it aids in discovery, the inventing of new technology, and it inspires children.
Being able to send people up into space was an extraordinary influential event for mankind. It told us that there were whole new worlds and concepts out there ready to be explored. The fundamentals of the solar system led us to discover more about the gravitational pull of the sun and other planets, which has helped aid us in launching probes and even setting the course for the International Space Station. Fundamentals like microbial life on Mars and the exotic environments of planets and moons have driven space exploration to a whole new level. In addition, due to space telescopes, we have learned new things that we had never heard nor seen about. The things that we have seen in space like supernovas, the creation of stars, and things like black holes have driven us farther and farther into space. In conclusion, as long as man has curiosity, there will be no end to what we will uncover in space. For this reason, this is why the Space Race was so important. It kicked started a chain of events that will have mankind exploring more of
Another inspiration is the progression of science and technology. Those who strived for space had a desire for knowledge of this vast space of unknown. Scientists wanted man to be put in space for the purpose of discovery and science. Some scientist were angry and criticized the space program whenever it diverted from this motivation. These extraterrestrial discoveries could possibly bring new technology and benefit s...
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Every day, space exploration missions fulfill people’s curiosity, producing fresh data about the solar system and the universe, bringing us closer to answering profound questions such as, “Is there life elsewhere? What is the nature of the Universe?” With private companies gaining access to space exploration the amount of curiosity would increase as more outlets are fueling
It has always been a part of human nature for a man or woman to be curious of their surroundings. First it was what is beyond those mountains; then what is beyond that ocean, then the sky, under the sea, and in the 50s, 60s, and 70s it was space and the moon. Our ancestors and the early civilizations were strongly focused on explorations and expansion. Even notable historical figures were primarily focused to either expand their empire for increased power and fame like Julius Caesar, or to explore new lands for rich booty or possible colonization like Eric the Red. We are doing nothing out of the ordinary by wanting to explore the vast expanse of space first hand. We are curious what is out there. Is there life? Is there a world out there that can sustain human life? As curious beings, we must at least try to answer these questions. If not for man taking personal initiative to answer the question left before him, we would not have a Columbus or Lewis and Clark. Manned space flights instead of robotic crews bring this human element of curiosity to the table.
Space exploration can lead to the possibility to find useful resources throughout the galaxy for human gain. Many severe problems on earth could be solved through space exploration such as world hunger, overpopulation, and dwindling fuel sources. Things such as fuel could be harvested from planets for power generation and propulsion technology, and land to cultivate for growing food, as well as land for building living areas for the growing population. These potential resources...
Some may think exploring outer space is simply a human’s curiosity. This is true but on the contrary, people explore to learn about things they may have never known and touch on the essence of the creation of the universe. Another reason for exploring this uncharted area is the technological advancements people have made and immense amount of innovation they have achieved in this field (Wood). Lastly, scientists study the other planets just in case one day humans need to relocate after overwhelming damage has been done to Earth. Suffice to say, it is a vital part of today’s day and age to research outer space (Rothery).
...roups that have been important to astronomy are the Akkadians, Egyptians, Chinese, Polynesians, and the Greeks. They used astronomy for navigation at sea, creating accurate calendars, making new inventions, and many more things! Some modern jobs in astronomy include Educational, Private industries, National Observatories and Laboratories. Also, some technical advances because of astronomy include many telescopes, tracking programs used by FedEx, and IRAF which is used to analyze computer systems. Even though astronomy is an incredibly interesting field, there are minimum job opportunities. Some of the jobs are included in the following fields: education, national observatories and laboratories, or in private industries. Astronomy has been the key to unlocking many new inventions and by connecting things from the past, to the present, and going into the future.
“Our understanding of the Earth has increased due to space exploration. Scientists are able to study the Earth's atmosphere from space and understand the changes in climate and their effects on the life on Earth. A proof space travel is that it is possible to observe our planet from a distance” Explains UniverSavvy. “Changes in the environment, and issues like global warming and ozone depletion can be studied. Space exploration has helped answer questions like how the Earth was formed.” Space research will help us understand the Earth we live on. Without space research, we wouldn’t know about the ozone layer and we would be in serious trouble. Also, we can see our planet from a far away so we can see if hurricanes or other natural disasters are coming. Space exploration has also figured out where a lot of our natural resources come from.