If we put our desires before our needs, then everyone loses out on a better standard of living. Alternatively, space exploration is a desire. Humanity is the number one priority keeping the human race alive is a necessity. While there are people on Earth who need help, they should be helped, rather than seeing money spent on sending robots onto other planets. The needs of humanity should always come first. It seems the authoritative powers have their heads way, way up in the clouds. But why bother spending all this money exploring space and finding out there was water on Mars at some point in the last few thousand years (we have water in Earth) when these same great minds could be applied to finding better ways to power humanity’s insatiable desire for energy, to feeding the starving millions around the globe, and generally making life down here better before looking up into the heavens. NASA’s Inventions and innovations that help the world.

Many discoveries have been made as a result of Space Exploration.It is in man’s nature to explore his environment.

Scientific knowledge has value beyond the measurements of cost.

Could have been used for more impactful endeavors.

The resources and efforts focused on space exploration could better humanity.

Money is better used to help human lives in their own country.

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A commercial space industry is taking over.

The Earth itself is not fully explored yet.

Space exploration gives us no direct benefit.

Congress often adjusts budget amounts during the approval process.Billions of dollars are spent every year by the world’s space agencies, but does this money bring us any benefit, or should we pull the plug and spend it elsewhere? All the Yes points: What the White House wants, and it will get for the U.S. There’s an additional $180 million so NASA can begin building a “space tug” to help pull the International Space Station down from orbit when it’s expected to retire in 2030. The White House also wants close to $1 billion dollars for a mission to return Mars rock and soil samples. Each company built one stage of the three stage launch vehicle.īiden’s budget request represents a 7% increase from NASA’s budget in fiscal year 2023, with more funds allocated for Artemis. The agency says the Saturn-V rocket that carried the Apollo missions used three prime contractors, North American, Boeing, and Douglas Aircraft. The Apollo lunar program that out astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon demonstrated how NASA used multiple contractors on space missions. This upcoming activity, known as the Sustaining Lunar Development contract, will lay out requirements for the future capability to carry astronauts to and from the surface of the Moon. Future landers after the Artemis 3 touchdown on the Moon could include opening the process of developing lunar landers to a wider collection of potential contractors. NASA, and Marshall, tweaked that process last year for going beyond that. The space agency originally asked SpaceX to be the prime contractor for the craft to carry the first astronauts to the lunar surface since Apollo 17 in 1972. Specifically, the Biden budget proposal includes additional funding for NASA to build a new lunar landing vehicle. That booster carried the agency’s first Orion space capsule, without astronauts on board, to orbit on the first leg of a trip around the Moon.

Marshall manages the new Moon effort and tested components for NASA’s new super rocket, called the Space Launch System or SLS. $8.1 billion dollars are being earmarked for NASA’s Artemis program to send astronauts to the lunar surface. The goals set by the White House could mean a larger investment for work being done or managed by Alabama’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. President Joe Biden is seeking to increase NASA’s budget to $27.2 billion next year.

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