Humans have this innate desire to learn about the world around them. This desire was ingrained in the psyche of our human ancestors in order for us to live in a place that is more fruitful. We, as a human species, have explored the deepest of oceans and the tallest of mountains. We have flown our first flight and sailed our widest sea. We have buildings piercing the clouds and railways extending across continents. We have split the atom and eradicated diseases. But, since our beginning, we have also looked up. We have put satellites into orbit and people into space. We have described the laws of physics and have engineered the fastest spaceships. We have discovered the bending of spacetime from the presence of matter and have put a man on the
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That is undeniable. People live without access to water on a daily basis; others without shelter. Why should we spend resources and time on space exploration when we could help people in need immediately. For this, you need to think long-term. Space exploration has the opportunity to critically make a change in life here on earth. It has the potential to change how we live and how it can benefit even the most poor people on the planet. Improvements in medicine and energy production can result in the exploration of space and the colonization of other planets. “The Gemini and Apollo programs were child’s play in comparison to the threat of human life posed by long duration, deep space missions to such places as Mars” (Launius 124). Humans do not truly know what can happen during long term space travel. Traveling to Mars by spaceship will take 3-6 months. We have never had a human travel that far of a distance away from Earth for that amount of time. Setbacks could occur, but only by pushing the bounds of what we fear are we able to create solutions of the problems. Why send humans when we can design and manufacture extraordinary robots to do our job? They do not need many resources that humans need for long term travel. The simple answer to that is robots are unable to do what a human can do. “Humans could make discoveries 10,000 times as fast as the best spacecraft explorers we have today” (Orwig 3). We have adaptive minds that can truly outpower thousands of our best space explorers. Besides, why settle for a robot that will do a worse job than putting in the time to send actual
That is undeniable. People live without access to water on a daily basis; others without shelter. Why should we spend resources and time on space exploration when we could help people in need immediately. For this, you need to think long-term. Space exploration has the opportunity to critically make a change in life here on earth. It has the potential to change how we live and how it can benefit even the most poor people on the planet. Improvements in medicine and energy production can result in the exploration of space and the colonization of other planets. “The Gemini and Apollo programs were child’s play in comparison to the threat of human life posed by long duration, deep space missions to such places as Mars” (Launius 124). Humans do not truly know what can happen during long term space travel. Traveling to Mars by spaceship will take 3-6 months. We have never had a human travel that far of a distance away from Earth for that amount of time. Setbacks could occur, but only by pushing the bounds of what we fear are we able to create solutions of the problems. Why send humans when we can design and manufacture extraordinary robots to do our job? They do not need many resources that humans need for long term travel. The simple answer to that is robots are unable to do what a human can do. “Humans could make discoveries 10,000 times as fast as the best spacecraft explorers we have today” (Orwig 3). We have adaptive minds that can truly outpower thousands of our best space explorers. Besides, why settle for a robot that will do a worse job than putting in the time to send actual