From early ages to present humanity always have been curious about space. With development on science humanity start to explore space in mid-twenty centuries. Thenceforward scientists have used enormous amount of money and effort for the space researches every year. However, most of the people think that scientist could not get enough information in spite of amount of effort they used in. People who do not know the real life application of space research deliberate that budget for space research should use in sustainability of the planet Earth. Why do huge amount of money used for space research and why we do not use that money for sustainability of the planet World are the main questions that most of people wonder about them. For this …show more content…
At one time these technological developments even could not imagine by people, now it is truth that we live in. Sending astronauts and satellites into space resulted in new capabilities and products that have transformed our culture and created a major sector of the global economy that worth trillions of dollars. So in that perspective continuing to explore space is more reasonable. As it was in the past to expect that investing billions for exploring space will yield future economic benefits presently impossible to …show more content…
Though as President John F. Kennedy commented that the NASA budget was “less than we pay for cigarettes and cigars every year.” Today, tobacco companies spend nearly the amount of NASA’s budget on U.S. advertising and promotions alone. Furthermore, there are hundreds of scientists and engineers work for space exploration and most of the budget of space exploration go to them. So actually we do not pay for robots we pay for humans. $20 million is really not a lot of money when we think about benefit we have got from space research. Actually it provides more than amount of money by the new technologies it created. And NASA’s budget is about 0.6% of the US federal budget. Put another way, the United States spends $20 million every 4 minutes and scientist use that money for whole year. This amount is like one drop in
Such as poverty and health-care, but in fact NASA 's funding is only a half a cent on the dollar, and the U.S. spends most of its deficit on war and other barbaric acts. About 2.9 trillion dollars are used on health-care alone (Millman). The U.S. government spends a mere $17.7 billion on NASA and spends more than 36 times that on defense $647 billion, with nearly $20 billion alone in 2011 spent on air conditioning tents. Since NASA’s Cold War glory days, the budget has gone from 4.41% of the total budget in 1966, to less than 0.45% today, its lowest ever. NASA helped to usher in a promising new future in the 1960s and it was rewarded with a rapidly-eroding budget. The U.S. should invest more money in NASA and less on unnecessary health care and military. The budget cuts are affecting our technology development. Evidently, Increasing NASA 's to 1 percent of the federal budget will not hurt the economy. But instead it would benefit it by creating jobs here on earth, especially for the next generation of American scientists and engineers. By increasing funds it would support cutting edge aeronautics and space technology innovations, education, and development that will help fuel the nation 's economy for years to
Space exploration needs advancing scientific research, more machineries and equipments which means that it would cost us a lot of
Bill Nye, the “Science Guy,” asserts, “NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.” The United States of America’s government is currently in an economic debt encompassing billions of US dollars. Unfortunately, the government has attempted to balance finances by cutting the funding for most programs, including NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA, in over half a century, has brought the most economic, technological, and social benefits than any other program held here in the USA, as well as any other extraterrestrial program in the world. The last thing this nation needs is the cutting of NASA finances. NASA should be receiving more funding because the Earth will not last forever and humans will need a place to live, there’s a curiosity within humans about the vast universe they live in, there is evidence to suggest life on other planets, the USA’s superpower status will be improved, and the economical income NASA brings is more efficient than any other governmental or educational program.
According to Space.com the Federal Government approved a budget of $16.6 billion for NASA in 2014. Approximately 1/3 of that will be spent on space exploration.
Let’s look at the cold hard numbers to start with. In the last ten years, NASA has managed to create 18,000 jobs, save 444,000 lives, reduce costs by $4.9 billion, and generate $5.1 billion in revenue. If that doesn’t start to make you feel good about NASA, try this on for size: we wouldn’t know what the Earth looked like from space if not for NASA.... ... middle of paper ...
NASA harms the economy. Since NASA’s beginning in 1958, NASA has spent over 500 billion dollars(NFAA). To put that in perspective, if you sum total the amount NASA has spent SINCE the moon landing, it is enough money to purchase the entire continent of Oceania AND end world hunger for over 6 years. NASA is constantly disrupting the treasury of the United States by constantly spending money that his not their own which raises taxes.
Is it worth expanding into outer space, when we still have so many other concerns, such as power and material resources? If we focus more on aerospace development, other technological improvements may evolve, such as more energy efficient engines. Many household or common appliances we use today are by-products of aeronautic research. If funding for space research were increased, the rate of developing new applications would also increase. The question is, are we ready and willing to take this next step in technology?
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, is a key aspect to the United States and the world in so many more ways than people realize. They help protect the us with satellites to monitor the Earth and what is going on with it that we can not see, they help out our country as well as the rest of the world and the everyday lives of the people, and they help inspire and grow the minds of the youth in our world today. They do this all and much more with a miniscule budget, think of what they could accomplish if given double or triple their current budget. This may seem a little overkill and it may be argued that they would never use this and the budget should even be lowered, but that is not the case at all. Currently NASA's budget
...fe, with the inventions they have produced and by learning what they have done I think the budget should be increased. I am a firm believer in that science holds the answers to our problems in the world. If NASA and other scientific organization continue their research I think issues and problems in the world will fix themselves. For example, if NASA or another organization finds a way to effectively convert salt contaminated water to fresh drinkable water, our problem regarding water shortage will subside. Maybe NASA found a way to have cars or some other found of transportation run on soil, sand, or grass (very unlikely but it is possible). NASA would need workers to build these devices, which would create many low education jobs across the country. Continued funding for NASA and other scientific organizations will fix the social injustice problems of the world.
Even if we disregard the economic value of the space program, the achievements of NASA speak for themselves. The ability to send humans onto the moon, survey the surface of Mars using the Curiosity rover, and even find water on a foreign planet is astounding. Even looking at the International Space Station, it seems abundantly clear that the space program brings more unanimity between nations than the military will ever hope to achieve, while the military has a budget 33 times that of the space program. Hence, blaming the costs of the space program is an absurd argument, as the budget that is put into the program is used very proficiently.
Mankind has always been fascinated with exploring the unknown. From sailing to distant lands to someday setting foot on other planets, the spirit of exploration is the same. Bur now with the current economic situation and the high cost of sending people to space, NASA is being looked at as a way to free up some much needed funds. Although, there is many problems here on planet Earth that need addressing, the benefits of space exploration far out weight the disadvantages. Space exploration has given us more advanced technology, advances in the medical field, and a boost to the economy and these facts cannot be disputed.
Space is more than the stars and planets, it is the future. The cosmos is one of the biggest mysteries, therefore, exploring it has been getting more expensive over the years. Now, the public is questioning if the large amounts of money put into space programs was worth the cost. Being said, spending valuable resources on space exploration is highly beneficial because it enhances mankind’s knowledge to improve the way of life on Earth and allows space programs, like NASA, to use different planets as a resource or a new home. Supporting the progress of space exploration verifies the improvement of society’s knowledge.
Most people think that the costly downside to funding space exploration is a reason to avoid spending money on sciences and instead spend it on problems here on earth, but such funding for space exploration actually promotes economical as well as scientific benefits. Space exploration is an important expenditure for the high cost because of the potential for numerous benefits such as the possibility to find useful resources to cultivate, space exploration and satellites produce many thousands of jobs in our economy, and it creates and discovers newer and better technologies through research and development.
The average cost per launch is about $1.5 billion dollars. Why should the government spend huge amounts of money on space programs when they could use it to solve more pressing matters? According to recent studies, almost half of the world live in poverty. 1.2 billion people in developing countries have inadequate access to water and 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation. This is a total disaster and we should start helping these starving, homeless and poor people.
Space exploration is very beneficial to humankind because it creates new technologies, it brings different countries together, and gives people a better understanding of our Earth.