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The space shuttle named “Columbia” disintegrated in 2003 over Texas when it returned to earth. Similarly the space shuttles Apollo 1 and Challenger were unsuccessful and lost all the lives of the crew. The statistics showed that 1 out of 50 malfunctioned. An aerospace manager stated that “we can be too safe and never get off the ground”.
To determine: The pros and cons of sending man into space missions on an ethical perspective.
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The pros and cons of staffed or manned space exploration from an ethical perspective are given below
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Despite the competing demands for the money being spent on space exploration, governments should continue the space exploration programs because no price is too large for furthering our knowledge about the planet we live in and the Universe we belong to. As per one estimate, the annual expenditure on the space program is less than 2% of the global
In the last fifty years or so, there have been a considerable indirect fallout of the space program. Today satellites are helpful in communication, entertainment, education, weather
Solutions for critical issues such as global warming of our planet and how to deal with dwindling bio-diversity of the planet may still come from our increased knowledge about outer space, other planets in the solar system and the universe.
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