Is Space Exploration worth the cost? - VastlyCurious

    Have you ever wondered why are we even spending money on space exploration, when we have so many problems on Earth? So do you believe that space exploration is not essential for humans? But here is where the catch is, we are not only exploring outer space, whereas we are simply improving our technology so that it could help us lead a better life on Earth. Still, most people consider space exploration is not an essential thing. Is it worth the money?

    The technologies used in space exploration can help improve the technology in other fields and it could also bring in international cooperation. We could also find out about our own origin, the start of our universe, and possibly the end of our planet. Various Jobs could also be created by space exploration. Many breakthroughs will be made and we would have made a better world by investing in space.

How space exploration benefits mankind?

    One of the greatest achievements of space exploration does not only helps us understand other planets and stars, but also examine our own planet and determine its benefits. Once the end of the cold war, countries started investing in space technologies and thus many satellites are sent to space to monitor the weather, establish satellite communication and observation purposes. 

    So now every gadget we use is connected to a satellite, the communication satellites paved the wave for televisions, smartphones, and the Internet to come. Now every technology we use is dependent on satellite systems and thus humanity and have extremely benefitted from space research.

    NASA's SMAP research proved to be ingenious as it had predicted severe droughts in Africa and foretold the crops that we will have a high yield in each season, thus preventing a large famine happening in Africa. So it seems like it is worth the cost, right?

Can space exploration help save our planet?

   The greatest danger our planet might face is Climate change, the warming of our planet resulted in the melting of ice and thereby raising sea levels. Space technology might come in handy to solve this problem and examine the effects of Climate change.

Melting of IceCaps

    The technology used for space exploration is also used for exploring our own planet and it might help us predict the effect of climate change and observe the ice cap melting. The satellites launched into space are helping us map out our topography and predict the forest fires and give us early warnings. It might provide us with insight into the devastating effects of climate change.

Why privatizing space exploration is a bad idea?

    So why use the taxpayer's money and invest in space exploration if there are private organizations like SpaceX and Blue Origin who are doing an exceptional job in space transportation? No, we can't just completely privatize space exploration because private organizations are working just on technology that could make the capital. 

SpaceX Headquarters in California

    The Private agencies are profit-oriented, so they are only researching to improve space tourism and asteroid mining to make money, whereas the governmental agencies give their collected data on weather and crop prediction for people for free and improve their life by predicting the growth of crops in a particular season.

     The government agencies have more experience in space and have done many projects for the betterment of Earth. So the idea of privatizing the space agencies might sound awesome, but it is important to let governmental organizations handle the job. 

How will space exploration help us in the future?

     We should also be doing everything we can do to save our planet from greater disasters like asteroid strikes. Firstly spotting an asteroid in space is a tedious job, but it can be done by investing in space explorations that could provide us some time before the asteroid hitting the earth. 

    NASA has already been involved in the DART mission to crush an asteroid that comes in the orbit of Earth. To ensure our survival on Earth, space missions could also be crucial. We just might colonize other planets and therefore ensure survival on other planets if Earth seems to be inhabitable one day. 

   Imagine if the countries spend their military budget on space research, we could bring in next-generation technology and we could scale larger areas of the cosmos. We could spot the asteroids and find new exoplanets in the vastness of the cosmos.

Conclusion

 

   Investing in space exploration is really about using technology to improve life on earth. It could also help us investigate and to find our purpose in this vast universe. The answers to this cosmos can only be found by exploring it and human curiosity also plays a vital part in it, the idea of finding out the mystery of the universe seems to fascinate us.