Space Exploration Day 2024 is on Saturday, July 20, 2024: Should the US fund space exploration?

Saturday, July 20, 2024 is Space Exploration Day 2024.

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Yes space exploration is the ultimate frontier. Exploring the space gives us a new challenges and solutions for those challenges move our race forward.

US is spending just 2% of total budget on NASA and about 79% is spend on the national defense, education, medicaid, medicare, social security, housing, and more. Which would you say had given more back? NASA did. Here you can see all technologies developed in NASA from which many of them are in today's ordinary use.

Those technologies were developed to solve problems in space but ultimately they were so good we started to using them here on Earth. Things like first transistor computer was developed for Apollo because computers from that time period were using vacuum tubes, which are heavy, big and unreliable. Microwave oven, GPS, satellite television and internet (global communication) and but other things like MRI machine in hospital is based on scientific principle which has nothing to do with medicine and this principle could not be proven if there was no funding of space and science. Cut off funding of science and space exploration and you will stop development of man kind.

why are people spending billions on space exploration?

Space exploration is paramount to the survival of the human race. IF we do not achieve space exploration, someday our species will simply perish, it is inevitable that something happens to this planet. One day the sun will supernova, and everything here will be gone. In order for us to procreate the species, we need to get into space colinization. Plus, if we had a global effort where all countries where participating we may quall some of the fighting while attempting a common goal for the future of humanity.

In this development process we would of course start looking to take better care of the planet we are renting.

Space exploration questions.?

The pros are almost infinite in the respect of resources and the development of technologies to get us to far flung places. Finding Astronauts for the long trips would probably be easy, all we'd have to do is find some bums that like sitting at home all day! :)

If mankind decided tomorrow that it was time to begin focussing entirely on developing Space travel technologies then it would instantly mean that the planets in our Solar system are withing our human grasp, and not only are the planets in our grasp but so are the planets resources, their minerals and the possibility of the planets of harbouring life will change humanity forever hopefully for the better, but not only would the planets be in our grasp but the Asteroid belts would to,

Most asteroids are rocky bodies, and can be characterized as “flying mountains.” Astronomers have identified a variety of different types, but the classification basically boils down to this: they can consist of pure rock, mixtures of rocks and elemental metals such as iron and nickel, mixtures of rocks and organic (but nonliving) materials, or mixtures of rocks and ices. In addition to iron and its relatives, metallic asteroids probably also contain less common metals, through in proportions smaller than might be found on Earth. However, the smaller sizes of these bodies might make the metals easier to access, when we finally begin mining the asteroids for raw materials. In other words, there’s gold in those flying mountains -- and aluminum, silver, palladium, iron, nickel, and just about everything else we’ll need to make a comfortable living in space. However, it may well be that those asteroids containing elements important to sustaining life itself -- such as carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorous -- will prove far more important to our space efforts than those containing useful and/or pretty metals.

And with these riches the Asteroids would meet our demands for precious metal for perhaps decades or centuries! But theres a catch.

Its the development of this technology, its the cost of developing this technology, its the will power of our countries combined that would be required to get started on space exploration of this kind of magnitude.

But thats only here on Earth, More cons " a much more dangerous set of cons" is solar radiation, cosmic radiation, weightlessness on the human body, space debris, you name it space has a lot of hidden dangers, but if we're brave enough to meet these dangers then the pro's would certainly outway the cons simply because if we remain on Earth then we will die out, if we run out of resources here on Earth namely fossil fuels then there will be wars that would make all the wars in history look like a picnic, and Easter Island is a testament to that, not only is Easter Island history but it is also a warning to our own civilisation that screams out over the centuries of humanity's capability of his own self destruction when he runs out of some of the basic resources needed for his survival.