Space Exploration - Is It Worth the Cost?

Costs of Space Exploration:

• Rockets & space shuttles
• Satellites
• Spacesuits
• Training
• Astronauts' salaries
• Telescopes
• Food, water, oxygen
• Lives
• Building

Benefits of Space Exploration:

• Gives people opportunities
• Gives us the possibility of finding a new planet to live on
• Lets people do what they love
• Lets other people find out about space

Options	Sending humans into space	Doing only Earth-based research	Using satellites
Benefits	- Humans can perform experiments in space where machines can't - Humans can assemble satellites - Humans can determine whether man can or can't survive in other places	- It is much cheaper then everything else - It is pretty safe	- They are more powerful than normal telescopes - They make it possible to see anything that's happening on the Earth's surface, and also inside the Earth
Drawbacks	- Humans can very well die - They can fail at what they are trying to do - They make it necessary to put food, water and oxygen in the rocket or the space shuttle	- It doesn't give enough information - It's pretty basic, compared to what we are capable of	- They require complicated and expensive assembling - They die and become space junk - They sometimes fall  through the atmosphere, polluting the ocean or wherever they land

My top 10 things I would spend money on:

1. Telescopes on Earth
2. Feeding for the hungry children of the world
3. Education
4. A few extremely powerful satellites and telescopes for space
5. Getting rid of space junk
6. Eliminating rubbish in the sea
7. Finding another planet to live on
8. Finding a way to save the Earth from a meteor WITHOUT a nuclear explosion
9. Sending less astronauts to space
10. Planting LOTS of trees to minimize the amount of carbon dioxide and to maximize the amount of oxygen