Spacex Rockets Persuasive Essay

Thesis Statement

SpaceX rockets are one of the most important technologies of the past 100 years, because they expanded the possibilities of space exploration. Elon Musk made them much cheaper by creating a way for rocket capsules to come back, using less expensive rocket parts, and making the rocket parts that fall off during launch reusable. However, these rockets can be improved by making the remaining parts completely reusable, and making the rockets able to carry humans to different planets.

Before need:

People started exploring space before Elon Musk. The American government was buying rockets from Soviet Soyuz and then launching them in America. This cost a lot of money and the government budget was limited, as a result America was

After making the company Elon and SpaceX weren’t connected to NASA and the government and Elon was able to do all launches by himself, and make all rockets without including the government which means he had a bigger budget and was earning more money.

The interest with space started in early childhood. Elon always wanted to explore Mars and later when he grew up he decided to make his company and his rockets, so he would not depend on Russian rockets. He found an old Russian book about space and the rockets projects that Russians didn’t finish, because of the lack of money. And Elon Musk decided to bring one of the projects to life. He raised money, improved the rocket a bit and now these rockets are one of the best rockets among all others.

So what was so significant about these

In sum, SpaceX rockets are 10 times cheaper than the NASA rockets. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy costs $500-750 million dollars and NASA’s heavy-lift rocket has a cost over $21.2 billion dollars (Medium.com). This is a huge difference. When the Soviet Soyuz was making this project, they didn’t have specific technologies to make some rocket parts, but technologies advanced a lot since they did this project, and Elon Musk found the technologies easily and these parts cost him even less than he thought.

Impact 3

Another important impact is making the rocket capsule come back. Before SpaceX, a capsule with people used to land randomly and it was not safe for people who were inside. As an example Gagarin, a russian astronaut was in a very dangerous situation, because his capsule landed in the wrong place, and there were no people around who could help him, eventually some people found him when he was already almost dying. Now, each SpaceX capsule lands in Jacksonville, Florida coast which means that people are safe and you can reuse the capsule again later.

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