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    Is their enough space for the two of us? Stars, mankind has been staring up at them for thousands of years. Over those many years dreams and mythology have been created to explain those lights in the heavens. Mankind grew sick of just staring, and decided to find ways to discover more about it. Eventually over hundreds of years mankind has, been able to send men to the moon, launch satellites into space, and even send rovers to Mars. These feats of science would have been unimaginable hundreds of

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    Robotic Space Exploration is Better than Human Space Exploration The space is a marvelous place where it is fated for humans to go and explore, just like how humans explored the new world back in the Medieval age. For the past decades, people have sent up men and women, and machines to the space for the sake of exploration. Even with this great amount of time, the debate over Robots Vs. Humans for space exploration hasn’t come to a settle yet. With that said, Robot Vs. Human Space Exploration will

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    Space Exploration Benefits There is an approximate amount of at least one hundred billion galaxies in our universe and humanity has yet to explore them all. To be more precise, “an acceptable range is between 100 billion and 200 billion galaxies, said Mario Livio, an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland” (Howell). Considering this fact, there is technology that is created and expanded on that comes from space exploration. Likewise, this technology impacts

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    “Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.” (Greene) The famous astrophysicist and astronomer, Neil Degrasse Tyson, one said these powerful words. To paraphrase, Neil Degrasse Tyson meant that space exploration is unlike anything else as it compels people to explore... explore the unknown and themselves. (Greene) Ever since I was little, I have always admired outer space with all of its stars and comets and wanted to learn more about it. Due to this

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    possibilities in the space? America was the first one to send two men, Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin on the moon, on July 20, 1969. In the photo it shows the full body photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon. Shows him working at the apollo 11 Lunar module ‘’Eagle’’. nonetheless, we have not gone back since our first landing on the moon. We’ve sent satellites into orbit. Not to mention the Mars exploration rover and the Curiosity rover. Yet we have not made significant progress in space aside from low

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    learn more about the world we live in, space represents the hopeful unknown. It truly is, as pop culture has entitled, the final frontier. It holds answers to both the past on how our universe began as well as our future for when Earth can no longer sustain the human race. Space travel and exploration is therefore significant because of the information we can gather from it. Throughout the history of space travel there have been two distinct classes of exploration: human and robotic. Though they are

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    astronaut? Is this a realistic goal? Is there even a need for space exploration in today’s world? The answer is yes. Space Exploration is still central to discovering the vast universe. For 52 years the United States, Russia (Soviet Union), and China have been putting humans into outer space. This began in the Apollo era. The Apollo era of U.S. space flight changed the world forever when they landed a man on the moon. However human space flight became the motivation for the race to

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    I am writing this paper to claim that space exploration is a huge waste of resources and we should focus our efforts on the sustainability of the Earth. I plan to explore the benefits of sustainability and discredit arguments for space exploration. Sustainability is the more realistic and feasible choice. A very popular argument for space exploration is to protect our Earth that we have managed to almost destroy, by finding another planet to retreat to. Many people believe the only option is to

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    2017 Human Vs Robotic Space Exploration In Support of: Sending Exclusively Robotic Missions Space exploration is devoted to seeking out the unknowns of the universe. Manned and robotic missions alike have contributed priceless knowledge of our planet’s surroundings and beyond. However, with the current geopolitical climate, funding, and other practicalities, it is not reasonable for the exploration of space to be done exclusively by humans. To put it simply, human space flight is incredibly

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    “Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.” The famous astrophysicist and astronomer, Neil Degrasse Tyson, once said these powerful words. What Neil Degrasse Tyson meant is that space exploration, is unlike anything else as it compels people to explore and discover the unknown. It gathers interest in science and it’s many field, which is the foundation of society and the the future. Space exploration can solve many of the problems caused by humanity

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