Education In America

While the budget of NASA increases yearly with inflation, the government is unwilling to give the space program the support it needs. People who think that the space program is a poor investment are misinformed to what it has yielded and what it might yield for mankind. The benefits of space exploration include, but are not limited to; economic growth, better education, increasingly more advanced technology, and culturally eye-opening. All of these benefits have a type of domino effect in the sort that they are the cause of each other, so better economic growth leads to more money for education which produces smarter people, therefore leading to advances in technology all this happens while our culture grows to increase our knowledge of the

Education in the United States is lack-luster, to say the least, the United States stands 25th in math, and 17th in science, within the world rankings of the countries by subject. Education has always been a problem in America because the country started with just simple villages so the need for surviving was more important than education, but America developed into its own country it could afford many more luxuries such as education. According to the International Space Exploration Coordination Group, when Kennedy first started the Apollo program the number of math, science, and engineering PhDs had started to increase by 1972 when the last man landed on the moon the number of those PhDs had been at an all-time high, but since the infatuation with space had ended everyone started getting different degrees. While the Americans started to prestige in other areas now that the space race and the infatuation with space were over still a majority of prestigious scientist came from the space race era. A 2009 survey found fifty percent of internationally renowned scientists who publishes in the prestigious journal Nature, in the last three years were inspired by the Apollo program and eighty-nine percent of people interviewed believed human space flight encouraged younger generations to study

The last fifty years were eye opening for humanity with the first steps in space and on the moon where truly giant leaps as they showed us the limit of humanity’s existence and how far our current technology could have taken us. After those first steps into space mankind started thinking where else might life exist, or if there is any other intelligent life in the universe. Life anywhere else in the universe could be both a good and a bad thing because if life is out there among the stars this could mean that it is possible for humans to expand outside our planet. THe possibility of humans existing beyond Earth is a nice thought but if we find many pasat civilizations that means we have hit a barrier and it may not be probable for humans to get through this great filter. Stephen Hawking once said that to confine our attention to only Earth matters would limit the human spirit, and discovering prolonged life in space is possible then space will have a profound impact on cultural and intellectual life. However, in the 21st century so far, mankind has made many leaps into space and we frequent space at least once a month. The development of new technology and newer ways of transportation grows. In 2013, the Mars Curiosity Rover discovered evidence that Mars may have once supported life, now whether there was intelligent life or life at all. As of 2017, NASA has reported