Is Nasa Worth Our Tax Dollars?

beyond in outer space. Our imagination has taken us far beyond what we cogitate and answers to some of the mysteries of our universe are now taking shape. The reality we witness is stunning in its beauty and humbling in its complexity and expense. In just a half-century we have left the protective cradle of our home planet Earth, walked on another celestial body, peered into the far reaches of our universe, and enhance our knowledge by understanding certain laws and properties. Our minds have always reached

To the Moon and Back: Why NASA Should Receive More Funding Once upon a time in the not so distant past there was no such thing as a thermometer you put in your ear. Instead, to take your temperature you were to sit in the doctor’s office waiting, and waiting, and waiting… still waiting. Then your name would be called and you would walk into the office just in time to drop your trousers and have a rectal examination to take your temperature. Now, if you’re like me, you would probably much rather

The annual budget for NASA in 2015 was just above 18 billion, 18.01 billion to be exact. “House voted this week to give NASA the 18.5 billion it requested for FY 2016” (King). NASA's total inflation-adjusted costs have been more than $900 billion since its creation in 1958 through 2014 (more than $16 billion per year). (Flower). Therefore, NASA has used considerable amount of money about 900 billion dollars since its opening till 2014 to complete various manned and unmanned missions and space research

A Bill For An Act Entitled: Budget Of NASA Senator Austin Crilly introduced the following resolution which was referred to the Committee on NASA’s budget _____________________________________________________________________ NASA has accomplished many things in the last fifty five years of it’s existence, such as the Apollo programs, Mars missions, developing the proficiency in which aircraft flies, etc. NASA has tremendous benefits towards the future expansion and development of the United

States federal government funds the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with over $17 billion. When Keith Yost, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was asked about government funding on NASA, he replied, “NASA is not only spending money, but also the sweat of our laborers, the genius of our scientists, and the hopes of our children.” As a powerhouse in the work industry, NASA is taking away from the remainder of the country. Before venturing off into space

In the fourth century, from 306-337, the first religious tax exemption was formed by Constantine, the Emperor of Rome, which granted the Christian church complete tax exemption from all forms of taxation, in an act of his conversion to Christianity. Now almost seventeen hundred years later churches remain tax exempt and cause a burden on the U.S. economy. Because of this burden, religious facilities should no longer remain tax exempt because churches help contribute to the U.S. debt, sell products

NASA’s budget. This is because instead of the money going to NASA, the money goes to other organizations. The U.S should increase NASA’s budget because it helps find planets that could support life, creates more everyday objects, and gives ideas of how the earth might end. The universe is an endless amount of space, filled with an infinite amount

Nicholas Moorman 11/7/17 English Composition Global Warming Is global warming leading toward the extinction of humanity? Americans spend billions of dollars on global warming every year but is it really worth it? The earth is warming up, the glaciers are melting, the sea level is rising, and it seems like natural disasters are occurring more often. Americans are looking for solutions to this problem, but it is taking a hefty chunk out of their wallets. Before we get into the meat of these questions

NASA Funding In 1957 the first successful being put into outer space was a chimp, named Laika. The early 1960s brought the first man and woman in space, and eventually by the end Armstrong walked on the moon. The 70s brought asteroid belt voyagers, space stations, and the golden record. The 80s and 90s delivered the Hubble Space Telescope, talk of civilizing anything but earth, and in the early 2000s came the idea of privatizing space travel. The debate is, what have we done in the last ten years

High above our beloved watery globe, on the shore of the cosmic ocean, a winged spacecraft approaches a gigantesque space station pirouetting in the vast dark. The pilots of this vessel make use of flat-screen computer displays to match their rotation with that of the massive orbital outpost. As the shuttle spins, a logo of the world's largest airline, emblazoned on its side, comes into view. This is not the present, but it was to be the past. A scene from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science-fiction