Persuasive Essay: The Space Race

Stars, mankind has been staring up at them for thousands of years. Over those many years dreams and mythology have been created to explain those lights in the heavens. Mankind grew sick of just staring, and decided to find ways to discover more about it. Eventually over hundreds of years mankind has, been able to send men to the moon, launch satellites into space, and even send rovers to Mars. These feats of science would have been unimaginable hundreds of years ago, and to others that heard of it was only science fiction. With all these accomplishments, it seems humanity has a bright future of further discovery, but a recent development has surfaced regarding Space Exploration. That debate regards the future of space Exploration, and whether or not It should be continued through NASA or private companies. Various opinions have come from all over the scientific and astronomy concerned world. Others side that NASA should continue its lead into the future, because of its contributions to discovery and the scientific world. Others blame that NASA’s lack of progress in previous projects has lead to a disbelief of Nasa, and a turn to Private industries due to their smaller budgets and recent success. Even some see a balanced future of NASA working with private companies, and even healthy competition that will allow a faster progress into the future. Mankind has always had the desire to reach the unreachable, and it cannot go forward

Animals have rights, or at least they should. Animals are not for us to eat, experiments on, wear or abuse in any which way. It is cruel to treat animals like they are not living souls. Animals are not tools that we can use however we want. They too have hearts and brains like us humans. Therefore, animals have all the rights to live their own lives without suffering and free from exploitation (Why).

Billions of dollars go into space exploration projects every year. Some people feel that this money should be used to solve problems on Earth. All of the “NO” arguments come from people who seem to know nothing about space. First off, the most widely used argument that does not support space exploration is “We have too many problems on Earth, so why go into space?” This argument is definitely not appropriate. While there are many problems on Earth, a lot of them can be solved using the technologies that we develop for space exploration. For example, NASA helps on research into cancer and preventing, treating, and even curing it.

Does it feel like there are too many humans overpopulating the Earth? Cause eventually the Earth will have no more space for humans and has exhausted its resources making life difficult to prosper. Well fear not, there are space companies like the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) and SpaceX trying to search throughout the universe for the possibilities of human survival. One of Jupiter's four largest moon called Europa, discovered by the Galileo spacecraft created from NASA, believed to contain water essential towards human life. The more reasons on why humans all over Earth should consider space exploration as one of the top priority, because Earth's resources would slowly be depleted as time goes on. Therefore, the use of space instruments to analyze evidence, viewing Europa's surface on the possibilities of finding water, the building of fuel depots in space to refuel spacecrafts, and information from spacecrafts are all necessary for human life outside of

I think that the government shouldn't continue to fund space exploration because it takes a lot of time and money to make sure everything is right. Mars exploration can be dangerous and we can't predict what will happen. One mistake can waste lots of investments that people have made.

Animals, we can either have them as a pet,food, or a testing subject. Now even though we can do that with them, is it right if we do? Animals, they are appropriate for testing because they are similar to humans in many ways.The fact that animals are close to us humans, it makes scientist have an advantage over trying to test out their medicine. Scientist do not have to struggle trying to find data on something else, they have the animals right there, they can use them. Now all this is true, but again, is it right? Just because animals can not speak up for themselves and say “No!” does not mean we can use them. Its cruel, and it’s just not right for them. Testing on Animals has its pro’s, and its con’s. The reason we need animal testing is 1.Test

Sitting at your home after reading about your favorite subject, space, you wonder; is NASA really doing enough? Should they let private company’s takeover the space race, or fight to keep in the lead? You know lots about NASA, but private companies are competing too? You are shocked. Space is cheap, right

The craving of knowledge is something that has shaped the human race to what it is today. As humans, we need something to kindle our flame of curiosity. Since the beginning of time, we have always gazed up into the sky on a starry night and asked ourselves what there is out there; what made this stunning view? How immense is this vast expansion of space? These inquiries could be answered now that we are capable of space exploration with the mechanization we have now, and will possibly take advantage of in upcoming years. The use of the stars has been very beneficial to humans, whether it’s navigation, religion, or something to feed the fire of our imaginations. The technology that we take up in space can help us reveal much more than just with

Should we stay home or go out to explore the endless possibilities in the space? America was the first one to send two men, Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin on the moon, on July 20, 1969. In the photo it shows the full body photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon. Shows him working at the apollo 11 Lunar module ‘’Eagle’’. nonetheless, we have not gone back since our first landing on the moon. We’ve sent satellites into orbit. Not to mention the Mars exploration rover and the Curiosity rover. Yet we have not made significant progress in space aside from low earth satellites and the ISS.

Animals do not have the rights as we do because they are incapable of fulfilling the duties that accompany such rights. People say that “God” granted humans a higher status than animals and encourages people to use animals. (Gale) Just because animals can’t speak for themselves don’t certain people think that they would speak up if they could?

A race to space that took the lives of seven people in under two minutes. How the decision of a country can decrease the population of females. The catastrophic nuclear accident that killed 28 people from its radiation poisoning. Have the mistakes of us humans shaped the way we live today? As a nation have we observed and learned from our mistakes, changing the manner of our American society.

News of rapid climate changes and the destruction of Earth’s ozone layers has been a diminishing topic that individuals push away. However, space exploration accounts for roughly one percent of the destruction of Earth’s ozone layers; it proves to be beneficial for human survival. As a rocket takes off to go into space, rocket fuel is emitted into the earth’s atmosphere which destroys the ozone layer; it protects the Earth from the suns deadly rays. Rocket fuel, however, only contributes a small amount to the ozone depletion; space exploration contributes far more than what is lost during takeoff. Space travel has been proven to benefit Earth’s environment by monitoring water quality, understanding the Earth’s weather patterns, and improving the lifespan of plants.

The priority of a government can be seen in how it spends its money; more than 4 decades ago that we were racing the Soviets for superiority in space exploration, and President Kennedy’s famous challenge “before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. Kennedy defined a clear and measurable goal, and then rallied support to make that goal a reality. During the 60’s, the moon landing was bursting with funding and public support, with its inevitable climax, that all dried up. Americans were no longer interested in the space program, “We landed a man on the moon, we won, what else was left to do?”. America’s budget made it very clear that space exploration wasn’t a major priority. The American Government is in a serious debt, and is adding to that deficit every year, and they’ve decided to start pulling from less important projects, such as our good old friends at NASA, giving them the smallest portion of any other major agency on the federal budget. However, is the decision to pull money from, and abandon, the space program such a wise idea?

For year earth has strived to explore the world and now that we have we move on to a grander scale, space. Humans first reach the moon in July 1969 and now decades later we are moving to the closest planet Mars. For years upon years scientist have looked for a way to reach mars and now, closer than we've ever been we have been faced with a new problem, how to get back.

No one wants to die. That is a fact of life and apart of human nature. Unfortunately, humans are the main source for increasing pollution rates, deforestation, a large contributor for climate change, and the overall destruction of our planet. This is not a local issue, a state issue, or even an issue subjected to just one country. This is a global issue that will effect everything. Our withering planet is why space travel is important for our society.