Persuasive Essay Space

On July 20th of 1969, the United States landed on the moon, making Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin the first people to walk on the surface of the moon. While this ended the ‘Space Race’ of putting people onto the moon, it opened up infinite possibilities for what we could do next, but there is one problem with expanding our society to other worlds, and that is money. Flying millions of miles through space is not only very expensive and time consuming, it is also very dangerous, the slightest mistake can kill an entire crew of astronauts, and end up costing billions of dollars (How Challenger Brought NASA Down to Earth).
Since trips to the International Space Station are so dangerous and costly, why do we keep sending and bringing back astronauts? Being in the International Space Station (ISS for short) is not necessarily a ‘vacation home’ where astronauts are free to do what they want, they are up there to conduct experiments and analyze the data they receive from

Space tourism is the concept of having buyable flights to the International Space Station, or similar facilities, which have not been made yet. Many private space companies such as SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic have dreamed of making this a commercial business. More recently, we have been getting closer and closer to getting space tourists just outside of the earth’s atmosphere, and into a slight orbit around earth, just enough so the people on board can experience weightlessness ( "Virgin Galactic Craft Reaches New Heights." ). With Virgin Galactic’s recent success in engineering a space plane to carry passengers, space tourism is closer than ever. While the Virgin Galactic space plane can reach what the minimum for space tourism needs, there is still many tests and fixes needed in order to ensure a safe and reliable vehicle, that can safely take passengers to space and back, every