Persuasive Essay: Why Should We Go To Mars?

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

Imagine a new planet with an atmosphere and people roaming around like it was Earth. Scientists can do that by sending just four people to Mars than adding more as the colonists on Mars make additional progress. Scientists have built technology, like a machine that could take the carbon dioxide on Mars and change it into oxygen so people could breath up there. If they are willing to never come back down to Earth let them go up. Colonizing Mars is a terrific idea so the Earth can use the ice hidden underground, the people on Earth will believe that anything is possible, and the people can live up there.

The Space Race was a 20th century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States of America and the Soviet Union. This competition was held between 1955 until 1972 and enabled these two rivals to advance their ability of spaceflight and their exploration out of the Earth’s reach. The competition covered several ways in taking human life out of Earth’s orbit and to successfully bring them back home in the process. The Space Race brought about several controversial topics relating to how the USSR copied the methods conducted by the United States, how the United States retaliated against the USSR and the man landing was purposely staged or not. These factors contribute to a large extent on how the space race was won. The Space Race

The age of exploration was driven by many causes. One of the biggest reasons being the desire to find a new route to Asia. The yearn for riches and spices was high and both could be found in the heart of Asia.

Colonizing Mars would not only be a scientific breakthrough, but it would be extremely beneficial to the human race and their future. Mars would help humans in many ways by providing a planet for humans to fall back on if any bad event were to happen to Earth. Colonizing Mars would prove to be very helpful and rewarding. Also, many engineers and scientists like Elon Musk, founder of Space x and Tesla, are on board are on board with this futuristic idea.

"I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact."- Elon Musk. Space exploration is tough. The slightest problem can turn what seemed a successful mission into a disaster, making it imperative to prepare for every possible situation. As such, there is a great demand for high quality engineers in this field. I plan to be one of those engineers, and Washington Aerospace Scholars is one of the best opportunities to help me accomplish this. There is a lot I can gain from it; however, it does not come without difficulty. WAS requires dedication, strategy, and commitment to succeed. I believe I can offer these through my diligence towards STEM, time proven work ethic, and experience in similar courses.

What good are worlds outside of ours if we were never meant to explore them? If we, as humans, were never meant to step foot on them and study them? There are over 1024 planets, and even more moons, in the entire universe and we as humans have only stepped foot on two, earth and the moon. There is conflict in the world whether we, as humans, should try to go to the red planet, Mars, within the next fifteen years. People believe there are problems with “The Mission to Mars” consisting of the dangers possible, the lack of technology and the social/political challenges.

A Paper The two stories that I have chosen are “Send Your Children to the Libraries” written by Arthur Ashe, and “Why We Should Go To Mars” written by Kim Stanley Robinson. Both stories have a persuasive purpose, and both stories have a pattern of evaluation . Ashe’s story is about why it is so important for young black boys to focus on getting an education before trying to achieve their dreams as a professional sports star.

Colonizing Mars will be one of the largest challenges humans will face, but it will also be one of the greatest. People should go to Mars for many different reasons. Mars is capable of becoming a habitable planet for earthlings. It can support humans, but it must be prepared first. We must colonize Mars to help it sustain our needs.

Exploring mars has its benefits and flaws but the benefits outweigh the flaws the first thing is that is has culture and it also has inspiration.Second it gives new means to address global challenges and last it inspires other organisations to help find research to help.The first reason is the it has culture and inspiration the evidence that back that up comes from www.nasa.gov “Space exploration offers a unique and evolving perspective on humanity's place in the Universe, which is common to all. Every day, space exploration missions fulfill people's curiosity, producing fresh data about the solar system that brings us closer to answering profound questions that have been asked for millennia: What is the nature of the Universe? Is the destiny of humankind bound to Earth?Traveling to mars can cause global

Mars should be explored because humans have an obligation to explore, the ability for exploration to alter fundamental beliefs, the social impacts and the possible advancements in technology. Choosing to explore Mars has the potential to provide many benefits as well as cause unforeseen consequences, a simple cost benefit analysis. Through this paper these benefits and consequences will be fundamentally and thoroughly investigated. Past choices of similar caliber will be studied and their impacts on humanity related to the exploration of Mars. The idea of exploring Mars is no longer a question of “how?” but a question of “should we?”. It has been over “44 years since a US astronaut has visited another body in the solar system, namely the Moon” (Joseph F. Smith). Over the years a multiplicity of proposals have been made to NASA and the government to send humans to Mars. Two programs attempted to do this, Space Exploration Initiative of President George H. W. Bush, and the Constellation Program of President George W. Bush. Both were short-lived and underfunded. After many years and ventures there is starting to be a convergence in humanities’ ability to make Mars a reality for human exploration. However simply because Mars is within humanities metaphorical reach from a technical perspective, doesn 't unconditionally justify its exploration. There are several facets of the question to consider when making the decision of whether humans should go to Mars; Social responsibility,

Are we alone? At the moment of writing this document, we are in fact considered to be alone. This may concern you and make you feel insignificant (which we ultimately are) however if we are the only sentient life-forms in the Universe then the only things that can put limits on space travel is ourselves. We have already done this with the outer space treaty prohibiting N.P.T. (Nuclear Pulse Technology) which uses nuclear fuel to travel very efficiently through space, because of this treaty banning potential weapons of mass destruction, (due to the nuclear fuel used in this technology) it isn’t allowed to be used at the risk of it being used as a makeshift nuclear bomb. We don’t need to limit ourselves like this and that is why I am an advocate for space travel and colonisation of other planets specifically Mars or moons. Travel throughout the solar system would allow for the advancement of human understanding, the possibility of a space centred industry, and the betterment of our daily lives.

Nasa has planned for 6 men to embark on a manned one-way mission to Mars by 2030. They want to colonize the supposedly interesting red planet, costing upwards of 30 billion dollars.

Humans have always been interested in space and the wonder in which it may hold. In the past, humans worshiped the stars as if they were gods while also studying their position to give them guidance for their lives. Their interested in space has fathered the desire to know more. Today, space has been seen by many as the new frontier or the home beyond earth. Society have even taken a step forward through the creation of stories in books and movies based of the idea of humans living in space and the present of alliances. Yet there is still controversy on the need to continue space exploration when our own planet has so many detrimental problems. There is an ongoing debate on whether not the money used for space travel could be better beneficially use for other causes. It is true that space exploration costs billions of dollars a year alone according to NASA current budget, which is constantly increasing. However, what many refuses to understand is that without space exploration many of the innovations that we have today would not have existed. While there have been, many failed attempts involving space exploration that has caused a tremendous amount of money to go down the drain. However, many people fail to realize the benefits of space exploration and the possible future it may

There are many planets in our solar system that could be potentially be one day terraformed, some of which have moons already with water and possibly life on them already. Why would we waste our time with Mars then? Mars has always fascinated humans. “In August 1996, the public was captivated with NASA’s announcement that a meteorite from Mars may contain evidence of early microscopic life.” Reconsidering Life (1). It has been used in movies, books, television, and games, so you could say that mars is quite famous. Besides having an important history, Mars holds all of the elements that are needed for life to exist. It holds Wwater, which may be frozen at the polar ice caps, carbon and oxygen in the form of carbon dioxide (CO2), and nitrogen which is an important element to help create our atmosphere. “T here are amazing similarities between the Martian atmosphere that exists today and the atmosphere that existed on Earth billions of years ago. ” How