Space Exploration Persuasive Essay

Why isn’t this Generation talking more about Space Travel and exploration. This is our time. We still feel like it is a waste of time and money but, at the rate of which we are killing our own planet, I feel like my children won’t be able to live there full live on our planet, Earth. I propose that we wake up from the fact we are able to reach higher, go beyond the Earth. We have made huge scientific progress throughout the past 15 years. Jobs in the industry are in high demand by people being cosmonauts, engineers, technicians, astronauts, and the list keeps going. With this proposal, I would like to change the way our public school teaches and introduce interests about space, it needs to be started at a much younger grade around 3rd grade,

The will to go beyond this planet has lost interest to many people in my generation. The cost currently to keep the program going is too heavy for NASA due to the lack of funding. NASA needs to receive at least an annual $1.5 billion budget and as of 2015 the budget is only $1.28 billion. Do we want to know as the generation that stopped American space exploration? “The reason why the need of funding is because NASA’s main goals in human space exploration just in the past six years have changed three times. First, the focus and Congressional funding were directed to the space shuttle program; then, that changed to a focus on the Constellation program, now, Congress has directed NASA to work on a Space Launch System with the goal of a manned mission to Mars sometime in the 2030’s” (Douglas). The passion for space travel decreased drastically in our generation until ours Iron Man, Elon Musk came around and founded SpaceX. His Falcon 9 rocket has revolutionized space flight tenfold. At the time of this article Elon has successfully landed nine out of fourteen boosters, three on land and

astronauts landed in July 1969. “However, once America beat the Soviets in the “space race”, the passion of space program, and will for learning about what’s beyond faded.” (___) Our country should make S.T.E.M (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) more relevant in primary and secondary schools across America. As well have a STEM club/organization in every high schools across the country. That way the growing jobs in the market will increase and it will help our economy because more people will be qualified for the STEM ordinated jobs. According to Smithsonian Science Education Center (SSEC) by 2018, it is projected that around 2.4 million stem ordinated jobs will go unfilled (CITE SSEC.edu) My question is America prepared for the future in STEM programs. Statistics say that we are far from it. “Between 1985 through 2006 the number of STEM doctorates that were awarded to U.S. domestic students dropped from seventy-four percent to fifty-four percent” (SSEC.edu). Not only that, but fewer than ten percent of Harvard graduates could explain why it gets colder in the winter. Nearly twenty percent of students cannot draw conclusions based on simple investigations, one university found that fifty percent of their undergraduates could not identify the difference between an atom and a