Persuasive Essay: The Cost Of Space Exploration

Space Exploration. Also known as, the journey into the unknown that our young astronauts are trained to endure for the further extension of humanity. However, we must ask ourselves how humane space exploration really is. We send these skilled individuals into a never-ending night hoping from their safe return from the final frontier. And space exploration should be nothing more than the final frontier, as it must be eliminated. The excursion itself is very costly and is being paid for by taxpayers while there are other more worldly issues at hand. Space travel is a very costly expenditure that taxpayers are forced to unjustly pay. Billions of dollars each are year being paid by citizens, obstructing the economy. In an article written to describe the …show more content…
$5.3 billion of taxpayer’s money is being …show more content…
Calling on taxpayers to pay for an exploration that will not directly benefit them is outrageous. Most taxpayers’ pay taxes towards 9 other brackets that are far more important than paying toward space exploration. Taxpayers should be paying taxes that directly benefit them. A pie chart and table in source c show that that when compared to a dollar, $0.06 goes to “all others”, including space exploration, while a mere $0.04 goes to education, training, employment and social services. This means that most of the money spent on exploring space, is used to build spacecraft’s and the $0.02 difference is used to employ and train space analyst, the select few that may benefit from space exploration. Because such an elite group of individuals share the data from space exploration among themselves, money spent on the explorations should be spent on earth, where the majority