Mankind’s Love Affair With Space
NASA tv is a wonderful thing, keeping up with the latest NASA mission whiling watching their space news. Many exciting things are happening now in space, enticing space lovers to connect online—or if you are one of the lucky ones with NASA television through cable—observing the space shuttle, the latest happenings in space generally, keeping up with the latest space shuttle video clips, the international space station. All of this seems rather exciting to us space nuts, as once it gets into our blood, we are gone. Everything else seems rather—oh—you know—rather boring and ancient compared to it?
Space exploration will never be the same, and just think—those two little robots Spirit and Opportunity have had a lot to do with the research on Mars. The Mars rovers have committed beyond the call of duty, with most of space followers developing a fondness for their spunk and sheer determination to get out of one stuck jam on into another, yet always giving us what we need—data and lots of information.
Space exploration has expanded to a living, breathing entity of its own with little trails of people following behind—researchers, scientists, astronauts, teachers, etc.—anyone who desires some small part of human space exploration. Forming a coalition for space exploration helps us all to better understand the many pros and cons of space exploration—with many groups of varied areas forming within each space area.
How have we benefited from space exploration? Look around from the baggie we put our children’s lunch in to head-off to school onto the toothpaste we put in our mouth. Going to the NASA website will open many doors to every step of the way we are benefited. Read it and weep, for without them we would not be where we are today with our many technical advances and latest developments. The values of space exploration are many—and will continue to grow as we look into the future space exploration on both the Moon and Mars.
Granted, there are many cons to space exploration. Nobody who is in the space field would ever deny it. Look at the lives which have been lost in the shuttle launchings, the dollars spent as our own people starve or do without on Earth, the continuous struggles with space budgets. There will always be a risk of space exploration, but there is a risk from the moment our feet hit the floor in the morning. J.R.R. Tolkien quotes, “It’s a dangerous business going out your front door.” Any no truer word were ever spoken—in space or on Earth.
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