Although some say exploring Mars will lead to huge discoveries and appeal to curiosity, the risks are still important to understand and notice. People with financial benefits are spending money and resources on space exploration. You could provide about 360 thousand homeless families with a nice, average-sized home, with the money it takes to go to Mars. We still need to consider if the benefits outweigh the costs. Chronic boredom, getting stuck on Mars, and the changes the new environment will have on us, are the risks of exploring Mars and outweigh the costs. The first reason we should not spend valuable resources on travel, and exploration of Mars, is chronic boredom. If astronauts have chronic boredom, this could be dangerous for the exploration. …show more content…
Who knows if the environment of Mars could change us? Maybe even entirely, resulting in the danger of the astronauts. This could be dangerous, and very risky. Another reader might say that we should spend valuable resources to go to Mars. The reason he or she might think this is because we as humans crave curiosity and new information. The evidence to support this is in the text, Main Street, and in paragraph 12 states, “If we stop exploring space, soon, society will have forgotten what it’s like to be human.” However, my position is stronger because it is more important to save the lives of astronauts, save valuable resources, and give homes to the homeless, than to slightly pleasing ourselves that we explore. In conclusion, we should not spend valuable resources on a mission to Mars. Chronic boredom can be dangerous to the brain, and the safety of those on the mission. Getting stuck on Mars could be a waste of resources, and once again, risk the lives of those on the
Exploring the final frontier seems an impossible, almost ridiculous notion; the concept of space is daunting enough on its own. It’s infinite on multiple levels, filled with unknowns, and is still misunderstood even after centuries of studying it. These, however, are the very reasons mankind must endeavor to reach the farthest corners and absorb all that they can. The possibility of finding a habitable planet is far greater than one might expect, and that in itself should be an adequate cause
Solar System, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, and one terrestrial dwarf planet, Ceres. Only one terrestrial planet, Earth, is known to have an active hydrosphere. Terrestrial planets are substantially different from the giant planets, which might not have solid surfaces and are composed mostly of some combination of hydrogen, helium, and water existing in various physical states. Terrestrial planets have a compact, rocky surfaces, and Venus, Earth, and Mars each also have an atmosphere. Their size
has never ceased, but our scientific advances have so far only allowed manned visits to the moon. There are many political factors that influence the ongoing attempts to engineer space tourism and future missions to Mars, which has been in the works since the twentieth century. High costs and risks involved in spaceflight due to the longevity in space and the effects of cosmic rays have been many of the setbacks in making it a reality. The United States is currently unable to conduct human spaceflight
government has made space exploration a high priority, but it at a high cost with a high reward. A new 17.5 billion dollar budget established for 2015 has been set in place for NASA to invest in new shuttles and other technologies required for new exploration (Klotz). Until 2017, which is when the first American shuttles are schedule to be ready, the cost for an American to go to the International Space Station on a foreign shuttle would cost nearly 65 million dollars a seat (Klotz). With the shuttle program
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