Notes

Nation after nation, every day, every year, celebrates its achievements in space exploration. However, it is now the time to question how meaningful these blasts are and whether there maybe more beneficial ways to use the money
First, until all urgent and important matters of the globe have been solved, money spent on space exploration is meaningless. It does not make sense at all to invest millions of dollars researching and producing foods for astronauts (for space exploration purpose), while every day thousands of people are starving. Furthermore, the discovery of outer space only serves a minor group of people if the majority is not even not well-educated. People living in rural areas or the third world countries do no even know how to prevent common threatening diseases such as AIDS and lung cancer.

Then, some may argue that the purpose of space exploration is to discover new lands, new energy resources or to deter potential threat to the globe. Nevertheless, is it effective to do so while other alternatives are available? The land on Earth is not yet effectively used. New energy resources (e.g. solar and nuclear energy) have not yet been widely used. Threats of plagues have not yet been deterred. All of these tasks that haven’t been tackled yet require money. That is why costly space discovery programs are a waste of resources.

In a nutshell, people should only invest in space exploration provided that urgent and important matters mentioned earlier in this essay have been solved. Also, purposes of space exploration campaigns should be studied carefully and other alternatives should be considered before the money is wasted.