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    Why We Should Not Spend Money On Space Exploration

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    Spending money on space exploration is a waste according to the document. It argues that (1) the needs of humanity on Earth should come first, as there are many who are starving or cannot access education, and money would be better spent helping people with basic needs. (2) Space exploration is also very dangerous, as evidenced by past mission failures and disasters that resulted in loss of life. (3) Many problems on Earth like global warming and environmental issues require urgent focus and resources instead of space exploration.

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    Spending money on space exploration is a waste according to the document. It argues that (1) the needs of humanity on Earth should come first, as there are many who are starving or cannot access education, and money would be better spent helping people with basic needs. (2) Space exploration is also very dangerous, as evidenced by past mission failures and disasters that resulted in loss of life. (3) Many problems on Earth like global warming and environmental issues require urgent focus and resources instead of space exploration.

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    Spending money on space exploration is a waste according to the document. It argues that (1) the needs of humanity on Earth should come first, as there are many who are starving or cannot access education, and money would be better spent helping people with basic needs. (2) Space exploration is also very dangerous, as evidenced by past mission failures and disasters that resulted in loss of life. (3) Many problems on Earth like global warming and environmental issues require urgent focus and resources instead of space exploration.

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    Spending money on space exploration is a waste according to the document. It argues that (1) the needs of humanity on Earth should come first, as there are many who are starving or cannot access education, and money would be better spent helping people with basic needs. (2) Space exploration is also very dangerous, as evidenced by past mission failures and disasters that resulted in loss of life. (3) Many problems on Earth like global warming and environmental issues require urgent focus and resources instead of space exploration.

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    Why we should not spend money on space exploration

    Counter- argument (disadvantages about spending money on space exploration)

    - First, space exploration is a waste of money ( https://debatewise.org/137-


    space-exploration-is-a-waste-of-money/ )

    The needs of humanity should always come first. there are pp on earth who need
    help, they should be help, rather than seeing money spent on sending robots onto
    other planets. Humanity is the number one priority, keeping human race alive is a
    necessity. Sure, its great that NASA can create modern technology to the next
    level, so why not make something that directly benefits us when there are millions
    round the world who are starving to death, there are many students can not go to
    school as their poverty. All you know , space travel projects require vast sums of
    money, it costs billions of dollars to construct a spacecraft. According to media
    press of US in 2020, the united states government spent 23.3 billions USD on
    NASA while more than 50 million Americans experienced food insecurity, which
    increased due to COVID-19 (https://theappalachianonline.com/opinion-spending-
    on-space-is-wasteful/ ). Therefore, that amount of money should be better spent on
    essential sectors such as education or healthcare.
    - Second, exploring space is very dangerous. It would be very risky to travel
    to other planets which we know very little about. Passengers on a space trip
    could be put in danger by potential threats such as extreme weather events in
    the outer space or even many strange phenomena that humans cannot
    explain. Go and search space shuttle disasters on gg yoou will find tons of
    information on how NASA failed on some its mission. NASA scientists
    have lost contact with the latest unmanned spacecraft sent to Mars, the
    $165m Mars Polar Lander. In September, the $125m Mars Climate Orbiter
    mission also failed, after an embarrassed mix- up over metric and imperial
    measurements. In addition, there are several traumatic events in the history
    of space exploration.
    - Challenger space shuttle disaster. On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle
    Challenger performed the STS 51-L mission to launch the satellite TDRS-B.
    After 73 seconds, the ship exploded in the sky over the Atlantic Ocean,
    central Florida at 11:38 pm. All seven crew members were killed.
    Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. This is the second space shuttle disaster that
    occurred after the Challenger spacecraft exploded upon launch in 1986. On
    January 16, 2003, Columbia began its STS-107 flight to the ISS, carrying seven
    astronauts. . On February 1, 2003, while returning to Earth, a piece of foam
    insulation broke off from Columbia's fuel tank and slammed into the left wing edge
    of this space shuttle. All crew members perished.

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    - Third, many alarming issues need to be addressed as a priority, such as
    global warming, melting ice or greenhouse. Instead of discovering new
    planets, we should focus our workforce, time and money on these problems
    as I said before in our Earth before too much worse thing happen. Many
    countries’ s government in the world specially in develop nation are racing
    in the battle of universe discovering to find a higher position in the
    international market. However, they seem ignore environmental issues,
    alarming disaster on our own planet. As a result, human is the only ones to
    bear the consequences of floods, droughts, etc.
    For example : in Agriculture industry. This table shows 3 most affected
    regions by natural disaster. ( from 2005 to 2015) according to FAO ( Food
    and Agriculture Organization ) ( http://www.fao.org/3/I8656EN/i8656en.pdf
    )

    Asia $48 billion


    Africa $26
    Latin America and Caribbean $22

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