The Benefits of Space Exploration

The study of space exploration is not only important for us to partake in its future mission but it can also improve life on earth as we know it today. The arguments against its worthiness in terms of positive contribution and benefits have been misrepresented ,being diminished by years of understudy and uninformed consensus based on falsehoods. In this report, I will outline the benefits from space exploration not only from past exploits, but also the future possiblities it can hold for the people of earth.

From the start, the whole idea to market the space program’s benefits have been a problem in itself to not only past generations, but present people who work and live in our world today. People see the many social and economic problems they must face on a daily basis, and if someone were to introduce to them a multi-billion dollar budget for something like Space Exploration, the general mindset produces images of strange science fiction movies, or the tragedies of the Challenger and Columbia shuttle missons. They don’t feel a need to press fourth with cutting-edge ideas from people who haven’t’ proven that such plans can affect them in a positive way while being compared to current problems throughout the world. In “ Marketing Space for the General Public”, author Jeff Krukin had said that “We’ve been marketing space by talking about technologies, missions, programs, and government policies, and using bland warm and fuzzy slogans, as if these are the motivators for human activity in space. They are not” (Krukin, 2004). People cannot relate to things on spiritual and metaphoric levels, more or less, the average person lives in constant realities of time management, work related issues, and trying to find better means of making their daily lives easier. In Krukin’s marketing angle, he illustrates the need with the idea of “emphasizing something that has been missing almost entirely from the national space debate outside the space community: a commercial space transportation infrastructure, which is required to enable and sustain all our space goals. Regardless of the destination, this is the best way to proceed if we want to remain wherever we go. This can be marketed to the general public as a natural extension of commercial aviation, leading to discussions of near-Earth space activity that is more desirable and sensible to people who otherwise care little about space”. (Krukin, 2004) In this light, it appeals better to the lay people who are not scientifically inclined to know about all of the complex ideas and general know how that is associated with the science of space or its extension to benefits in regards to life today.