Argumentative Essay: The Cost Of Space Travel

Many people say that going to space is too costly, and doesn’t help people on earth, or we have better things to do, like purging our national debt, or at least that’s what I’ve heard. But in fact, that’s entirely wrong except for the expensive part, but space exploration has brought so many useful items and gadgets that may be taken for granted from L.E.Ds to artificial limbs (NASA Spinoff).
Although there is other private space companies like SpaceX and Boeing and some people say we should just let them do the job for us. Letting private companies going to space and letting them make their own money to do it would help the government focus on things other than space travel.
Doing this may have some unwanted side effects because if one of these companies gets to an asteroid with valuable materials or perhaps a material stronger, lighter, and durable than aluminum in or on that asteroid the company could move of earth and start a monopoly that the U.S. has no jurisdiction over. But if the U.S.
Even if we discontinue the funding of NASA we could still have some control over space in some way by setting laws so the states could have some control over the private companies that would fund themselves. If we keep funding NASA or set some control over the private companies we may be able to make some profit off of the space program and besides, would you rather live in space or on another planet, than stay on earth. And in any way the earth is going to inevitably die anyway so basically the only way to survive is to leave this planet and go to an entirely different solar system and find a faster source of space travel like a “Warp Drive” or a “Black Hole Engine” to