The Purpose Of Space Exploration

One of the most obvious and yet simple reasons for why we explore space besides figuring out how life started is because, by nature, we are curious. We have an innate curiosity engraved in us as human beings, and because of that we yearn to discover and to explore what we don 't yet understand. The first people that walked on this earth had to of looked up at the sun and the stars and wondered how they function and what their purpose was- but they didn 't necessarily have any of the tools or the knowledge or the resources that we have benefited from today with technology to actually figure that out for themselves. They had to of looked up at the moon, and not have even been able to fathom that someone like them could actually be walking on that object up in the sky in many many years to come. They were not afforded the degree of optimism to believe they would find out in their time because they did not have any of the tools or knowledge we have come to today to help them figure it out for themselves.

One of …show more content…
Through this we have been researching material we have gathered from there for years. Scientists have also discovered elements in the raw materials that we can use on Earth.

Thus, there are numerous reasons supporting the continuation of space exploration. It inserts itself into countless areas of life for the better of existence.It is because we continue to fund it and take risks that we have taken humans and animals into outer space, landed on Mars and our moon, discovered and researched planets, know what Earth looks like from “the outside”, can launch stations and satellites outside of Earth, can fly around the world, and accomplish much more than we were ever able to do without it. Without it, we would have been set farther back than where we are today as a