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Space exploration

            
             President Bush recently unveiled a plan that would have the United States back in space. The President's plan outlines returning to the moon as a stepping stone for a future manned mission to Mars. The plan can be broken into three main steps. First, the United States will complete its work on the International Space Station which ends in 2010. This will allow the United States to keep its agreement with the fifteen partner countries which inhabit the space station and also allow for further research and development. During the next six years, NASA will use the space station to form a better understanding of the effects of space travel and thus increase overall astronaut safety. The second step in President Bush's plan is the development of a new manned exploration vehicle. The hope is that the new vehicle will be developed and tested by 2008 and used in an actual mission no later than 2014. The final step to this process is the actual space exploration. America will return to the moon as early as 2015 and no later than 2020. These moon missions will serve as stepping stones for future mars missions. NASA will continue unmanned exploration of mars, while astronauts visiting the moon will attempt to harness the resources in preparation for possible lunar communities. .
             So far there have been several proponents of Bush's new plan. These proponents have several key argument points as to why space exploration would benefit America. One of the arguments is that the United States is a country based on exploration and new discoveries. What better way to showcase this policy than by sending astronauts to mars? .
             Another argumentative point is that space exploration has shown the ability.
             to enhance development in numerous fields besides aerospace technology. .
             Previous space endeavors have yielded some of the biggest technological.
             breakthroughs in American history. Image processing used in CAT scans and MRI's were based on technology stemming from NASA's computer enhanced pictures of the moon.


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... us. Fast forward through the years and countless discoveries, the same question is being asked now that was being asked 60 years ago: is space exploration worth the cost? This question has sparked many discussions, debates, and introduced many interpretations of itself, specifically the interpretation of the word &apos ... like this can lead to more and more findings, such as information regarding how our universe was created. A common argument against funding for space exploration is that programs like NASA are allotted more money than other programs, such as national park services. Som...

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2. Reasons To Continue With Manned Space Exploration

... of satellite Sputnik I and cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin into Earth's orbit (Launius xviii-xix), yet the desire to explore and discover the unknown has been human nature for centuries. The space exploration program was began for three reasons. First, it was an offspring of the Cold War rivalries between the United States and the Soviet Union as a way to compare technological superiorities ... tasks? "The Russians and Americans may have ended their rivalry beyond Earth, but another contest for dominance in space remains, one that pits biology and brains against circuits and chips" (Stenger 1)....

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... (calculus). This single act help our scientists immensely in figuring trajectories and equations still used today in space exploration. Without these revolutionary scientists, we may have never been able to travel through space as we do today. These marvels were small, but significant parts in space exploration history (Webb). Space Exploration has been a huge part of American history. America led the world in technology and was becoming ... ., and Michael Collins were all welcomed home by television cameras thousands of adoring Americans. America had done it. America had gone to the moo...

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5. The Benefits of Space Exploration

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6. Science exploration

... business industries have many prospective ideas. With the existence of water on the Moon, starting colonies there does not seem that far fetched to many scientists. The US Space program and its Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) have plans for humans to land on Mars and eventually be-able to survive there. People should explore outside the earth because we have the technology ... short term economic budget; however with rapidly diminishing resources what is left to rely on? There is strong support that suggests that space exploration will aid our environment. Many "users of earth" (TWA...

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9. Benefits Of Space Exploration

... a little over a decade ago researchers have been discussing a "cornucopia of possibilities" space exploration offers strictly for scientific disciplines, such as Earth sciences, solar system space physics, astronomy and astrophysics, fundamental physics and chemistry, etc. (Waldrop 162-163). Today we are talking about the benefits space exploration spin-offs bring to our everyday lives on Earth. "Spin-offs" is a ... general term used for "the application of space technologies in commercial or industrial process" (Hardersen 17). They can be found in more products and places than ... inst...

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