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                                    Space Exploration is Beneficial

 Imagine if nobody had bothered to explore anything. People would still believe the earth was flat, Sir Edmund Hillary would have never conquered Everest and nobody would know what the south or north poles are. Lucky for us humans before us did bother to explore new places and now we all live in different parts of the globe. Since man has been around we have always explored, whether it is just a city park or the Pacific Ocean, we have always done it. It is our instinct so why should we stop now.

 There are no major explorers anymore mainly because the world has been explored all over. These days it seems unlikely that people will become famous for venturing where no man or woman has gone before, if only there was somewhere that is very much untouched by man, well there is, space.

Space is nowhere near as exciting as it was in the days of the cold war when Russia and USA were constantly trying to out do each other in space exploration. They were inventing new technologies everyday to help them get to the moon which evolved to such things as microwaves, hang gliders, communication satellites, smoke detectors GPS and ARPANET which was an early form of the internet. This is one reason why space exploration is beneficial, the inventions that come out of it. Every time you make an international phone call, watch SKY TV or use the internet, you are benefitting from space exploration. Where would we be without those technologies?

Global warming is slowly going to kill the earth. When that happens we are going to need somewhere to go, it probably won’t happen in our life time but we have to do our bit to help humans of the future. If we put more manpower into space programmes we may be able to find a planet where we can survive then try to make the technology to get us there. By doing this we would know that our generation has done its bit to secure the future of humanity.

The people against space exploration are mainly saying that the money should be spent on poverty down earth. Money will help for a short time but it will soon run out. The best way to help the staving is through science that will help to improve farming or find a way to purify water easily. Space Programmes are always trying to make food last or make it easy to get so when their astronauts are in space they won’t starve, If we use thier technologies we could make food easier to get or make so there would be less starving people.

Space is the way to go and the only limit is money. The government gives a lot of money but it still isn’t as much as they really need. If everyone gave twenty dollars a year to a company like NASA, Imagine how much more the companys could develop things like new inventions, saving us from disaster on earth and helping to stop poverty, Imagine how many more benefits we could get from space exploration.