Should Government Continue To Build Space Vehicles

When you hear the question, should the U.S. government continue to build space vehicles? What is the first thing that comes to your mind? Most people would say space shuttles, but the truth of the matter is, there is more to space vehicles than just the space shuttles. In fact there are a total of eight different types of space vehicle classifications. Let’s take a look at the eight different types and why we should continue to develop space vehicles a little closer. For the last 3 years of my military career, I worked in the U.S. Army’s only space unit. The problem that I continually found is with the money that the government spends to use commercial vehicles to send people and supplies to space. I feel that commercial space travel is great for the economy but NASA should have their own fleet to cut costs and to preserve industry secrets when sending classified material into space. It would be easy to say that space travel has been around since the beginning of time. The truth is that when the United States …show more content…
In 1972 Pioneer 10 is sent to the outer solar system. This is the closest approach to Jupiter that has even been made (http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=3642). 1965 NASA decides it wants to get a closer look at Mars so it launches two Mars space probes. In 1977 Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are launched and sent to Jupiter and Saturn. In 1981 NASA made yet another breakthrough when it launched the space shuttle Columbia. This was the first shuttle to use both liquid and solid fuel. (http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=3642). 1986 The space shuttle (the Challenger) is the shuttle that will forever live in the memories of everyone was First space shuttle to be destroyed during a launch. 1990 the first telescope named the Hubble was launched upon the shuttle Discovery.