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Hook: “Buzz aldrin once said: Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed into. Still to come: Mars being stepped on.” -”While this is sadly true, especially with our governments constant debts and expenditures we really question the necessity of funding space exploration. Luckily, the leaders of innovation and industry have stepped up to fund their own private space ventures in exploration.” “All in all, to further conserve capital for other public programs other than space exploration, space exploration should be privately funded.” Fact or reason 1: “While Nasa is experiencing major budget cuts in their annual funding, companies like spaceX and others are enduring funds. Jeff Foust, professor at MIT in …show more content…

In fact, in an Msnbc, meet the press edition, with Michael Griffin, NASA Administrator and MODERATOR Tim Russert it is said that 60% of America said no to space exploration funding. With the lack of interest within the American public it should be clear to let those who seek interest in the space research pursue their own desires for knowledge in the form of private funds.” http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8714260/#.WjXlHbT81Bw Fact or reason 3: “The ultimate goal for NASA is too seek a future home for earth and hopefully coloze this area. With this in mind what better way to colonise space than to leave it to the private industries to develop the space tourism markets further develop means of transportation? Robert Frost, Instructor and Flight Controller at NASA, describes in his article how one of the main goals in the private corption for space exploration is to make space a commercial enterprise. With this in mind it is obvious that leaving the private industries to pave the way for space exploration the most efficient method to

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