“Space- The final frontier” these are the words we have all heard time and time again and have brought to us the dream of space travel and exploration. Should it be a reality though? In the past fifty years, humans have taken to the stars. We’ve seen beautiful views of Earth, learned new information about our solar system and the universe, and we’ve lost good people to terrible tragedies. I believe that we will eventually lead our way into the stars, but that time is not now. The Unites States’ policy toward manned space exploration should be to cancel the program until it is no longer an unnecessary risk to send our loved ones to space.
After the destruction of the Challenger in 1986, the public opinion of manned space travel was damaged.