The Future Of Space Travel Essay

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Space Travel: The Future of Our Generation
No one wants to die. That is a fact of life and a part of human nature. Unfortunately, humans are the main source for increasing pollution rates, deforestation, a large contributor to climate change, and the overall destruction of our planet. This is not a local issue, a state issue, or even an issue subjected to just one country. This is a global issue that will affect everything. Our withering planet is why I believe space travel is important for our society.
Earth is our home. In fact, it’s home to over 7.5 billion people, and as a member of earth, I know how wasteful and destructive humans can be. With current trends in population growth, many analysts speculate that the world population will expand to 10 billion people in …show more content…

David Criswell, a physicist from the University of Houston, claims “We are already well beyond what the biosphere can provide. We have to go outside to get something else”. Earth has reached its threshold. It can barely support 7.5 billion people, we have a pollution crisis we are already trying to deal with, another 2.5 billion people will probably cause us to suffocate in our own man-made waste. NASA sums it up perfectly, the only logical thing left to do is establish a space colony.
The issue with establishing a space colony is that there is still a lot of time and research that is needed to be successful. Researchers at NASA speculate that we only have two options for space travel: inhabiting another planet or floating in constant orbit. Both options have their advantages and disadvantages, but there are also unknown factors that may make people weary of traveling outside their home. The biological effects a different gravitational force - or lack thereof, will have on our bodies. Traveling in constant orbit prohibits

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