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    wonder, without the help of space-borne telescopes, we could only imagine what threats the cosmos has to offer. Time and time again has it been proven that the best means of advancing the world is through the education and inspiration of young people. This is a crucial part and a high priority of NASA in particular and has led to the development of many programs for students across America to be inspired and become prepared for the next generation of space exploration. Specifically, the FIRST Robotics

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    Exploration is a key aspect to ensuring the constant and consistent development of the human race, but is it really necessary to branch out into the cosmos rather than focusing on the Earth itself. Expanding is essentially the ability to understand the unknowing and to grasp unworldly ideas, but without the means to reach those goals: justification, funding, and manpower, what is the point of committing funds to an unforeseen mission such as Space Exploration. Space Exploration is an issue that Humanity

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    Aaron McNamara Mr. Kerner 04/17/13 Space Exploration The space age began as a race for security and prestige between two superpowers. The opportunities were boundless, and the decades that followed have seen a radical transformation in the way we live our daily lives, in large part due to our use of space. Space systems have taken us to other celestial bodies and extended humankind’s horizons back in time to the very first moments of the universe and out to the galaxies at its far reaches

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    Extraterrestrial Exploration It’s cold up there. Cold and inhospitable. It is not easy, and it will take time. These are things the first humans in Africa must have thought of journeys northward. And yet, people still went. They colonized the globe in all its varied environments. When humans first bred dogs and horses, they did not do so to send them into unexplored land in our steed. We did not build crow’s nests on ships to observe and not go. Why is even a question whether humans should go to space? Space

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    objects with distinct characteristics. In essence, it gave the sky new meaning and dimension. From observing space, scientists were able to gain a better understanding of the universe and subsequently the world. Than in 1957 the Russians launched Sputnik, a satellite the size of a beach ball, which broke Earth’s atmosphere for the first time (Steve Garber). Now it was possible to venture into space, rather than just observe it. Again, this added a new dimension to the universe. Now instead of simply learning

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    Space, some may call it the final frontier. Space exploration is the trend I will be discussing. Space exploration has been around for a while however, it has become more of a reality than science fiction. Also in the past few decades there has been little progress made, compared to the past 8 years. The need for space exploration began as a competition and a few decades later people from around the world are sharing information on their findings of space. This trend is happening everywhere, countries

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    Space exploration, in its beginnings, were considered one of the humanity 's greatest achievements and throughout time the commonly considered by the public to be an incredible achievement for science. Although as the years have passed the idea of space exploration have soured, and the space program is being criticized for its millions of dollars being invested into the space program other than using it to explore our own oceans. while others feel that the effort put into the space exploration have

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    to explain Roach’s point about humans being the most interesting part of space exploration. A story about “‘Some poor guy in a spacesuit running on a treadmill suspended” tells us about “a way, to visit space without leaving Earth”, it gives us a story into human’s interests on space exploration that shows how unpredictable we are. This supports the assertion that humans are the most interesting component of space exploration because it gets a small inside to the plans people have and the stories

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    On July 20, 1969, outside our Earth in the cold, and darkness of space, the first humans landed on the moon, Neil Armstrong said, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Ever since the moon landing the space program took off, through failure and success we discovered things, advanced our technology and more. Learning from previous mistakes and making sure that they did not happen again. The space program has allowed for the world to grow in technology, unite different people

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    citizens should fund space exploration so that they could fulfill the dreams of the moon landing but instead with Mars. The funding of space exploration has helped the U.S. in many ways. Funding for space exploration maybe difficult and costly but it will work out in the long run. For example NASA plans to develop more into their Mars mission in 2020. This goal though can only be achieved if NASA receives the right funding they need to create the technology. Space exploration should be funded by the

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