Argumentative Essay: Is Exploration Worth The Risk?

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“You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.” (Chuck Yeager). Summarized, this means to not draw conclusions immediately. At the end of a risk, there could be great things, and no bad ending of a risk is too great to stop one from taking it. Exploration is worth the risk because it can open beneficial opportunities for society, teach lessons on how the world and people function, and finally open chances for legendary discoveries or achievements.

To begin with, exploration is worth the risk because it can open beneficial opportunities in the future. For example, John F. Kennedy stated in “Remarks at the Dedication of the Aerospace Medical Health Center” …show more content…

For example, look at the blue packet article “Inventors and Scientists: Katherine Johnson” by NewsELA. In paragraph fifteen, I quote “..they said that they wanted the capsule to land down at a certain place..I said, Let me do it. You tell me when you want it and where you want it to land.” (Johnson,15). Also in paragraph sixteen, “John Glenn requested that Johnson recheck the calculations..before his flight aboard Friendship 7.” (NewsELA,16). Friendship Seven was NASA and The United States taking a risk to send a man into orbit, not to mention in the hands of an African-American woman. In NASA’s view in 1961, that was a huge risk. However they took the risk and it led to a boost in the Space Race against Russia and African-Americans gaining more acceptance. These were huge achievements in history. Others may say that Katherine Johnson checking the calculations was not a risk, as she had gotten the calculations correct before and the calculations made by the IBM were correct any ways. However they may forget that NASA had the risk of allowing an African-American to control the flight, people that had a horrible reputation and were alienated. Also, it was a big risk to take from the beginning as NASA had failed sending someone into orbit 2 times

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