Why The United States Should Be Involved In Space Travel

Now that the Space Race is over, what is the point? Are we wasting our money? Should we cut their budget? When the cold war ended with the soviets in 1991, it sparked up a debate as to whether or not the funding for the National Aeronautics and space administration should be continued. Although it may seem like a simple fix, it has proved to be one of NASA’s greatest and most difficult challenges yet.

Now that the Space Race is over, what is the point? Are we wasting our money? Should we cut their budget? When the cold war ended with the soviets in 1991, it sparked up a debate as to whether or not the funding for the National Aeronautics and space administration should be continued. Although it may seem like a simple fix, it has proved to be one of NASA’s greatest and most difficult challenges yet.

During the Space Race, the U.S government received many good and bad judgements from the people. From start to finish, U.S citizens were fascinated by the Space Race. The diverse developments of the U.S.S.R and the U.S space programs were covered in national media. Astronauts (U.S) were seen as American heroes and Cosmonauts (U.S.S.R) were seen as villains.

Is the underlying reasons for the belief, impression or thought that the US government must continue to invest in NASA overlooked, misunderstood or unheeded. In his essay “Space Technology: A Critical Investment for Our Nation’s Future,” author Bobby Braun builds a cogent, detailed and absorb-ing argument by employing a variety of rhetorical techniques and persuasive strategies, most notably, an array of pertinent facts and statistics, appeal to emotions, and the citing of respected authorities to persuade his audience on why the US government needs to continue investing in NASA. Braun skillfully incorporates facts and statistics to build his argument. For example, aerospace “is the largest positive contributor to our nation’s trade balance” (par. 1) and “Modest sustained federal investment in space technology, at a funding level approaching 5 percent of NASA’s budget (well below the R&D budget of many corporations), is the key ingredient to their success. ”(par. 7) As a result, the use of these facts and statistics helps ground the

Also according to “Future of Space”, certain humanitarian needs have to be met on Earth, once they have been met this leads to more technology advantages and opportunities that can really benefit space exploration in the future. Americans should take the time to explore space because it’s not too expensive and it creates more and more technology advantages. One reason why Americans should explore space is that humans are naturally curious and competitive and want to explore beyond the Earth. According to “Leaving Main Street”, it states that if they take away space exploration society, will have forgotten what it’s like to be a human.

"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. " This well known quote by the renowned astronaut Neil Armstrong forever marked the beginning of a new age as the Space Race came to its final chapter. The Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War era was a pivotal period in the history of space exploration, where these two global superpowers aim to compete for technological superiority in military and space. While both the United States and the Soviet Union gained significant benefits from the Space Race in terms of technological advancements, scientific discoveries, and national prestige, the United States emerged as the primary beneficiary due to its long-lasting impact on space exploration and technological innovation.

Humanity has been fascinated with space for thousands of years but is it worth it? The first people on the moon was Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in 1969. We have not gone back to the moon for more than 40 years. NASA only gets about 0.48 percent of the federal budget (ballotpedia.org). After examining space exploration it is clear that we need to spend money on it because it improves the economy, advances technology, and forges diplomatic relationships.

Let’s go back to the 1940’s…. The space race was related to the cold war but it wasn’t the reason that space exploration started. After World War 2 America and Russia both realized that space rockets were a huge success from the perspective of the importance of space race to begin. In 1955 both the nations announced to their country about the amazing research that was going to take place for the next couple of years or decades. Unfortunately Russia took this announcement

People should spend money on space exploration, because humans are naturally curious and the cost for space travel is only a small fraction of the government's budget. To begin with, the cost for space exploration is only a small fraction of the government’s budget so why worry if space exploration is too expensive? As Maryanne Coronna stated in “Leaving Main Street'', “At a cost of six-tenths of a percent of the federal budget it’s well worth the price.” Nobody should be stressing about money for space exploration when the government can pay for it and still have enough money for other things like preserving Earth.

Before, it was very difficult to make long distance transmissions because the signals, which follow direct routes, were not able to flex around the Earth to arrive at place that was far. Since satellites are in orbit, the signals may be sent spontaneously into space and thus turn to another satellite or straight to the place they want to reach. Hence, communications satellites helped in expanding international and domestic long distance calling ("Communications Satellites", n.d).   Currently, we have six firms that provide communications satellite service to the U.S including GE Americom, Alascom, AT&T, COMSAT, GTE, and Hughes Communications.

And also, in the “American citizens’ attitudes on the space program” by the Gallup Poll in July, 2009, the number only increased from 1980 (41% of people say yes), 1995 (47%), 2000 (55%), to 2008 (58%). This shows that people realize how important the research

Congressmen and women, Mr. President, NASA, and my fellow Americans. Government funding is an issue that has always been talked about. We tend to find things we believe are important to be funded, which may be, but we don’t set priorities. The United States has started majorly funded space exploration since the cold war. President John F. Kennedy sought the moon as our new frontier.

So why, why do we explore? What’s the point? Space is a vast empty place that has been explored by few. Yet humans have been prioritizing this issue for years now and yet we have not found a place capable of being inhabited by humans.

Conclusion. In summary, the United State’ primary objectives for space laws, polices and directives are improving their global position through utilizing space through all instruments of national power (DIME-FIL). The United States continues to increase their space competitiveness index scores by focusing on government, human capital, and industrial approaches to space (Corporation, 2013). Currently the U.S. and its primary allies have established a comprehensive space program providing unprecedented global space capabilities, to include both global and regional aspects of space laws, policies and directives. For example, in 2012, more than 60 nations had participated in the development or launch of civil satellites and all of the G20 countries have space programs (Corporation, 2013).

In the movie, it has been mentioned there that the government didn’t want to spend a part of the nation’s savings for space exploration. The reason is that it would just be a waste of money, which is not the case. If the end of the Earth really did happen and the only solution is to leave the Earth, space exploration would become a necessity. It would save human beings from extinction and would preserve mankind’s