Pro/Con and Essential Questions
Should the United States government continue to fund manned space flight missions?
It is significant for the survival of humanity for human spaceflight to continue. Human spaceflight involves sending a spacecraft into outer space with a human crew and passengers. Humans explore because that's in humans' nature. They always want to know what's across the next mountain or what's around the corner. But financially; you explore because it requires the development of new capabilities that you didn't have before, and historically, every single time we develop new capabilities, most of them become applicable in the common everyday marketplace, and humanity benefits from them, and businesses grow, whether it's a heart monitor, or you know, a laptop computer or any of the other things that have been developed over the course of the space program's history; from Mercury, Gemini and Apollo right on up until now pharmaceutical research on the International Space Station, developing drugs for things like salmonella. We look at the effects of microgravity on astronauts. It causes bone-mass loss and muscle-mass loss. It gives doctors down here on Earth a better opportunity to understand the process of osteoporosis, which generally strikes women, but not just women. We see bone-mass deterioration over the course of days (in microgravity). In the area of aeronautics where, because of the research and development that NASA has done in aeronautics; the one positive balance of trade item for America is airplanes is aircraft. Looking at most modern-day airplanes, you would venture to say there is probably some development, some invention, something on that airplane that makes it great, that came out of NASA aeronautics research and development. Overall, space exploration and missions are essential in that they expand newer human knowledge and allow for the discovery and invention of new ideas and capabilities.
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