t There has been debates on whether or not NASA’s budget should be increased or cut. Personally, I agree with the people who think their budget should be cut down. Currently, $9.928 billion is spent on Nasa annually and for 2015 they sought $17.5 billion. With that money we could be funding more important causes like world hunger and disease research. Therefore, I believe that NASAs budget should not be expanded due to more important issues that can be resolved with the funding.…
We should increase Nasa 's budget. But to understand why we should do that we have to take a look at the…
Jobs give us the money we need to support our families. Pay bills. Keep your house. Pay taxes. Space explorations have been also a big part of our society.…
Therefore, these issues, out of many, are ones that should be considered most relevant. Many people believe that accomplishments are not reached in space, so why should the government waste money on it? However, I believe there is not enough financial aid given to the space related companies for them to prove themselves, even if they have landed on the moon, six times. In a chart from a 2006 estimate on how each federal dollar is spent, space and technology is stuck with an "All Others" category with only six pennies out of each federal dollar to work with. These six pennies are also shared with many other items, like general government.…
The next source is an opinion piece from the Opposing Viewpoints page. In the article “Private Space Exploration Will Benefit Us, NASA,” the writer Will Hagle reflects on NASA’s budget problem and comes up with a solution that could be of use to the space program. Hagle starts the piece by saying that due to competition in space research, the United States and Russia can no longer work together. In addition, the budget cuts are not helping NASA’s case for further development. Here he states that in order to maintain smooth functionality of space exploration, NASA should collaborate with private companies such as SpaceX for example.…
With the emergence of a new space race in recent years, the topic of space exploration has come under fierce scrutiny. Combustible claims are being thrown into the forges of debate from both the opposing side and those that fervently follow the exploits of the various space agencies. While both sides of this debate have various logical points, they both tend to follow the same well-traveled track. The opposing side of this argument tends to charge forth asking, why should we spend money on such an expensive endeavor when we have problems to solve right here on earth? Whereas the side in defiant favor of space exploration routinely counters with an argument that space exploration is an undertaking of rich discovery that benefits all of humanity in the long-run.…
Now that space exploration is not a military objective, the government does not prioritize its funding as much. Science based programs, including NASA, only account for 1.13% of the government’s budget. National defense on the other hand, receives 23.91% of the taxes collected by the government (“Your 2014 Taxpayer Receipt”). This clearly shows that defense is the government's main priority, and that is understandable. Instead of forcing the government to pay more for space exploration, the main objectives of NASA could be changed to focus on defense from extraterrestrial threats, such as asteroids.…
But aside from being extremely iconic, all these endeavors into the cosmos were the result of significant effort and funding on the part of the United States and other various space agencies. So, they foremost require money, or they will literally not get off the ground. In the United States, the ability of NASA to explore space in a consistent and revolutionary capacity has been limited by a dwindling budget, which took up at its height less than 4.5% of the federal budget and, in the modern day, takes up about 0.5% of the federal budget (Kring). As such, the budget of the space program must be sufficiently funded in order for mankind to enjoy the aforementioned benefits of its efforts. While it may be necessary to divert funding away from space exploration for certain important policy on occasion, funding the space program will almost always benefit technological development, advance scientific knowledge, and inspire millions of…
NASA was constructed for the reason being, the Soviet Union launched its first satellite named the Sputnik I, in early October of 1957. And result of the Soviet Union’s actions America got ashamed and embarrassed reason being now they weren't recognized as being the forefront of technology, and the response to this happening was to quickly indicate the lunch of the United States’ own space organization.…
NASA as competition from a US private company called, SpaceX. Now let's compare and contrast NASA and SpaceX budget. NASA budget is 18.4 billion dollars (Wilson). Space X in the past 10 years have operated on roughly 1 billion dollars (Post). Now you are probably like stop complaining NASA budget is 100 times more!! Well yes, but why does space have a space ship that can be used multiple times and that can land itself?…
These past few years the US government has drastically lowered the amount of funding NASA receives, hindering what they are able to do. However, recently privately owned companies such as SpaceX and Boeing have begun to design commercial space ships, and have even had major success and break through with those ships. Space is one of the last places, that we’re able to truly explore and find new things that could possibly help us back here on earth. Given this, NASA should receive a higher amount of funding so that it may keep up with the privately owned companies, explore new planets that could be used for colonization, and explore and discover of new and exotic places that we would never think were possible. Many people oppose the position…
We as humans have proved the universe is constantly expanding and have discovered planets capable of life. In my opinion, I feel organizations such as NASA need more funding and support. Of course, money is not that simple. If only money did not play such a big part in this cosmic debate. The potential areas of space to discover forever remain uncountable.…
Also some of our everyday technology comes from NASA, which was created for space exploration. Without this program our lives would be totally different then they are today. Overpopulation is one of the biggest problems in the world right now, but everyone just looks past it like it is not important. According to Paul B. Farrell, “Today humans are the…
You could argue that we have space exploration for many different reasons whether it is just to gather information or just curiosity about what is over the next hill. We may never know what we will expect to find next in space whether its solar system with a planet that can maintain life on it or whether we discover a new way to make space exploration easier and easier funded. We have to keep continuing to have space missions and launch space crafts into space to find out information but you cant rush to find new things in space, it will take a lot of money and a lot of patience to accomplish…
Firstly, NASA has contributed many inventions and machines to make life on Earth better for everyone, from new theories and inventions for air travel to satellites that have helped scientist see how badly the world is affected by global warming. NASA is also part of the reason why air travel gets faster and…