Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Space Exploration Proposal

Humanity has been exploring space for many years now.  It’s been a long time since the first man landed on the moon.  In fact, we know more about outer space than we know about the oceans on Earth.  The fact that we have such a large aircraft doing absolutely nothing is ridiculous.  They spent billions of dollars for something that is pretty much constituting as another satellite.  Although they are trying to build more rockets to explore further out into space, they should take advantage of what they already have.  Modify the ISS so that it will be able to navigate to different planets.  I propose that they try to take it to the newly discovered planet outside our solar system.  This planet is thought to support life because it is known to have water on it, which means that it can have oxygen.  It also is located closely enough to the sun to be able to support life.  If all of these things are true, why are we not trying to explore out there?   It is true that the ISS would need a lot of work for such a long trip and it would require a lot of fuel and time. However, it is currently taking up fuel and time of scientists for no reason.  They are currently doing nothing productive in the field of science on the ISS aircraft.  Their laboratories are not being used to their full potential.  If they would take it out of Earth’s low orbit and explore the places we need to know more about, the aircraft and the money used to make it would be put to much better use.

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