Space Exploration
Space Exploration
Is space exploration a waste of resources or a useful contribution to society? I am here to present to you my views on this topic.
Firstly, I would like to start off by saying that I believe space exploration can really be a waste of time and money. Though some of the discoveries might be interesting to us on Earth, I fail to see why people and companies (like NASA) spend so much money on things that don’t help us very much when there are people dying every second due to hunger and illness.
After some thorough research on the subject, I found that in December of 1999, $165 million (£10,338,999) of the tax payers' money was wasted when a spacecraft had run out of battery on its way to mars. The craft itself had been designed very well, and was aimed to give us information about the red planet, but it ran out of battery on its way there, and that is not something that should have happened after 165 million was spent on the craft. And now the machine is probably just out there, exploring the ever expanding universe, waste of money and time. Take a moment to think about all the people we could have helped with that money. Thousands, if not millions of people could probably have been helped with the money that was spent on that spacecraft that didn’t even reach its final destination.
Another money-wasting event took place a few months before the spacecraft went missing, in the September of 1999, when a spacecraft worth $125 million (£7,832,575) didn’t go according to plan when the metric and imperial measurements were mixed up. Many other cases like this have taken place, the most recent being . As somebody once said, 'money doesn't grow on trees', and it obviously doesn’t. We spend millions every year on space explorations, many of which haven't exactly lead us to any new discoveries.
Overall, I am against the spending of too much money on space explorations. Though some findings are interesting and some important (like the satellites that
Is space exploration a waste of resources or a useful contribution to society? I am here to present to you my views on this topic.
Firstly, I would like to start off by saying that I believe space exploration can really be a waste of time and money. Though some of the discoveries might be interesting to us on Earth, I fail to see why people and companies (like NASA) spend so much money on things that don’t help us very much when there are people dying every second due to hunger and illness.
After some thorough research on the subject, I found that in December of 1999, $165 million (£10,338,999) of the tax payers' money was wasted when a spacecraft had run out of battery on its way to mars. The craft itself had been designed very well, and was aimed to give us information about the red planet, but it ran out of battery on its way there, and that is not something that should have happened after 165 million was spent on the craft. And now the machine is probably just out there, exploring the ever expanding universe, waste of money and time. Take a moment to think about all the people we could have helped with that money. Thousands, if not millions of people could probably have been helped with the money that was spent on that spacecraft that didn’t even reach its final destination.
Another money-wasting event took place a few months before the spacecraft went missing, in the September of 1999, when a spacecraft worth $125 million (£7,832,575) didn’t go according to plan when the metric and imperial measurements were mixed up. Many other cases like this have taken place, the most recent being . As somebody once said, 'money doesn't grow on trees', and it obviously doesn’t. We spend millions every year on space explorations, many of which haven't exactly lead us to any new discoveries.
Overall, I am against the spending of too much money on space explorations. Though some findings are interesting and some important (like the satellites that