The Benefits Of Space Exploration

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Space exploration is considered a waste of time mainly due to the expenses that it requires. It is often ignored and becomes impecunious due to other problems that already exist on Earth. However, space exploration pays itself in the future because many inventions were created due to space exploration such as 3D printers, scratch resistant lenses, firefighting equipment, chemical detection, and much more. Space exploration also gives us a bigger idea of what space really is, and can prove or disprove many theories helping, us understand space. With many industries trying to explore space such as Boeing, SpaceX, NASA, Blue Origin, and Bigelow Aerospace, there would be job opportunities for people if only these companies had the money to do so. Increasing government funding for space exploration will result in more jobs, discovering potential resources and better technological advancements.

Space exploration is worth the investment because it creates better technology that is useful for us, even on Earth. Space exploration has been beneficial to society without us even knowing that some inventions were created due space exploration such as fire fighting equipment and phone cameras (Spector, 2012). Space exploration has made life easier for everyone, and we would not be so advanced without it. We could be much more advanced if space companies had more money to use. The article by Spector shows us the technology that space exploration has caused such as long distance

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