Should abandon its Space Programs? Why is Space Exploration important to me and future generations?

Answer 1

Privitize it! (yes that's my answer to everything)

Answer 2

The most important reason for everyone is the advancement of technology. Just think !, 10 years ago what did a cell phone look like, and who had one? We all had pagers. But people wanted portable use anywhere phones, that demand led to advances in batter technology and minaturization that otherwise would not have happened as quickly. Likewise the space program is a field where efficiency in life support, minimal waste, fuel conservation, quantum physics and mechanics will all see major advances over the next 10 years.

You will benefit from new materials, and new technologies even if you have no interest in the exploration of space itsself.

Answer 3

As it turns out, your ability to ask and receieve answers to questions on YAHOO Answers is one reason why space exploriation is important to you. The silicon chip technology that has made the compact, comparatively affordable computer possible was developed by and for NASA and the space program.

The space program involves considerable research into areas that have potential to produce products that can and do make our lives easier. The research is a combination of pure and applied work, and it will have spinoffs that are quite unpredictable.

Like cell phone technology. And the delightful pictures you can send by cell phone. And medical sensors and imaging technologies. And... OK, enough already.

Also, there is only a limited amount of space and material on Earth. As the human race grows in number, there is need for more material (steel, for instance, and aluminum) and space for people to be.

More importantly, however, we need a frontier; we need something that keeps the best minds challenged and everyone else more or less excited about growing in our knowledge and wisdom, or we will, as did the Maya and the Inca and the Aztec (to name a few I am mildly familiar with), degenerate.

Answer 4

At the rate we're screwing this planet over, I need a place for my future children to live thats not a living hell.

Even though we have lost lives in space, the information we are getting is crutial. Once technology advances with us, we will learn more. A hiatus would be ok while we are chillin down on Earth trying to study and use science to make outer space safer and accessible. Astronauts are brave human beings, going into unknowns for science to help out human nature. They are heroes and they know it.

I think all we need to do is fix that darn foam problem and it will be good.

Answer 5

NASA is the only government program that returns a verifible net positive gain. As such, we should invest even more in it.

Answer 6

We should probably evaluate them for the net gain we get from the technology. There is a slim possibility that it is all just redundant work from what has been accomplished already in secret......

Answer 7

Then we will have something to put in history and science books. Curiosity is more worthy of billions of dollars than feeding poor people or other problems our country has.

Answer 8

They didn't even land on the moon - this is all just some huge elaborate plot to take more money from the American people. I just don't buy any of it. It's so fake you'd be stupid not to realize it.

Answer 9

to understand how the universe is created and to know the fundamental knowledge of science and to answer many unsolved questions

Answer 10

Because we are killing our planet and need a new place to ruin.