The Golden Age Of Space Exploration

George W. Bush made many declarations about space exploration while he was in office, but they following year after Obama took over many of those declarations were axed. This brings up the question whether or not we as a country should or should not be investing in space exploration. There are certain people that seek to shut down space exploration because it costs too much money, but what they don’t know is that the government gained a lot of information from the original moon landing and have paved the way for future scientists to discover more of how the universe works. Why should anyone be searching space? The simple answer: all of the golden age of space development and research from the 60s until now will be of much less use on this fast …show more content…
The ground was overworked and couldn’t maintain the nutrients to produce food. The crops died, the dirt turned to sand and there was no measurable amount of rain for an extended period of time. This is what the world is working towards. The world will fail, and if humans don’t have a way to fix the world before then they will have to search for a viable way to get to a new planet that they need to have already found. Without space exploration there will not be a found planet, there will be no way already thought of to get them there, and the next generation will likely die off from …show more content…
They bring up the idea of how, “One recent news story about a ‘lost tribe’ also highlighted the fact that we are not in contact with all indigenous peoples across the planet. The scientific knowledge obtainable from our own planet, particularly organisms that inhabit locations with extreme conditions, offers far more value than that of space” which doesn’t really explore the entire idea of what is offerable in outer space (“Space”). If outer space is completely indefinite there would be no end to the possible new things mankind could find. Currently there are 118 different elements on the periodic table of elements. With a new planet, that has different climate conditions or different gravitational conditions the periodic table of elements could be expanded by the hundreds or thousands. Some of these elements might be able to help cure cancer. The ideas of what these new elements can do is unimaginable.Former President Bush says, “quite correctly [...] that we do it for purposes of scientific discovery” (Griffin). There could be other life forms out there that could help mankind with extremely wide expanses of knowledge, but mankind will never know if they don’t keep looking towards the stars to