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Persuasive Essay On Space Exploration

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Space, the final frontier as many like to call it. However we don't have access to intricate spaceships, and high tech space programs well ahead of their time. No. Space exploration has been at a slow crawl ever since the end of the space race in 1975, and since then Americans have lost all interest. Although, this doesn't mean Americans are at fault for the lack of progress in our galatic progress, rather it's more along the lines of miscommunication. With technology constantly advancing, and more people having access to the internet, we have become accustomed to being immediately greeted with results from a couple of swipes on your phone, or key strokes on a desktop. So when it comes to mission announcements coming from NASA or a …show more content…

How far can the human species go in terms of space exploration. I fully believe that when we start investing our time into space exploration we will begin the next big step in human evolution, and heres why. In 2018 NASA plans to launch their next big satelite designed for scanning the vaccum of space searching for new earth, or super-earth like planets. "The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will discover thousands of exoplanets in orbit around the brightest stars in the sky. In a two-year survey of the solar neighborhood, TESS will monitor more than 200,000 stars for temporary drops in brightness caused by planetary transits." https://tess.gsfc.nasa.gov. TESS' job is to record infomation, and calcuate the best possible studies, and future manned missions. However hypotheical TESS can very well also uncover any hazards that can threaten earth. While doomsday scenarios are usually only brought up in Hollywood movies, the likelihood of an asteroid impact is very likely. So much so that NASA already has serveral plans to deal with these scenarios, which leads me into my next topic. Every human to date has been born on this tiny blue planet we call earth. We now have a population of over seven billion resideing here. Imagine one day America, and North Korea decide to have a nuke fight, and ends up eliminating every human on earth.

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