Space Exploration Persuasive Essay

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“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard”(John F. Kennedy). Throughout the history of human being, civilizations always have turned to the stars for guidance. Civilizations believed in the power of the sky and the power of the universe. We look up at the sky, and we see the sun, the moon, the stars; sometimes we also see the other planets, such as the Mars, but there are tons of different things that we don’t see. That we don’t even know is existing. This is why my partner and I agree that the US government should fund space exploration.
Take a moment and think about it. Why would any sane person want to travel to the moon, and spend money on it, when we see millions of people dying from starvation? Would you rather send men to Mars to risk their lives, or would you rather feed starving children? We cannot all go to the Mars, and if we go there, what’s next? We all …show more content…

He says that we can tell that we know more about the dark side of the moon than our oceans, which can hold hundreds of lives that we don’t know yet and which can be cures to many diseases, such as Cancer and Aids. First we should discover fully our planet with the oceans, mountains and deep forests on it. This is an argument which you always hear about the topic but people fail to realize. NASA was originally created as a part of a military ballistics program and at time NASA is still apart of the military as proved by this quote “the space program in America grew organically out of the military ballistics program.”(Shariff 191). A matter of fact almost every NASA complex is within a mile away from an air base. So with that said if we were to cut the budget of the NASA program that it wouldn’t circulate into domestic exploration but mostly go into the budget of the