Need for space exploration : Benefits and critics

Space is a vast structure of outer space for human imagination for the knowledge of space facts and a fertile ground for technological exploration by facilitating space programmes.

Need for space exploration is gradually increasing with the increase of civilisation and expansion in the era of digitalisation.

Aspects of future related to educating young minds regarding space sciences and it’s advance technologies of space tech fields  are also very important ultimately leading to exploring space, discovering new facts & enhancing new challenges for upcoming future generations. Now we are in the era of digital fields and we are on cusp of exploring the abundance in research, resources & innovating ideas of technological connections in space with Earth-bound resonance.

The exploration of space is the great race, a secular quest which unites us under the umbrella of humanity which is transforming life; not just in orbit but here on Earth also.

“Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.”-Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Benefits:

Important benefit of space exploration is it help us from different potential hazards like appearance of stellar objects, comets, falling of asteroids and allow us to prepare for the situation in advance. To know the origin and beginning of universe, to find our place in universe, we need to explore space and universe. We discover various informations regarding structure of outer space systems, about the facts of our home planets, galaxies, new planets, stars and different celestial bodies and we can get to know details on their surface, structure, culture simultaneously.

Satellite technologies:

Applications of satellite are vast including communication, navigation and different military and civilian purposes. Satellites make life easier through signal communications like radio, television and help us in knowing weather monitoring and climate changing.

Biomedical applications:

Biomedical research in ISS (blogs.nasa.gov)

Exploring space provides human to maintain good health. Other indirect benefits we can find like muscle physiology, robotic medicine, wireless telemetry from space research.

Besides all this advancement of scientific technologies and experience, development new applications, economical benefits in aerospace market, international partnership in different mission are the direct benefits of exploring space and technology.

Indirect benefits include security and safety via new technologies, advancement of biomedical engineering and research to improve health issues, human space travel etc.

 Critics starts with the money trails:

All benefits of space exploration go in vain when the costs invested come into picture. The expanses on this field are too high even to plan the launch of any space shuttle. To launch a space shuttle the required budget is around $500 million. So many comments we can see that the costs spent on this field can never justifiy the poverty and hunger that to fulfill the basic needs of humans to survive.

Some commets are like-  “Humanity would be better off saving Earth, rather than colonizing Mars that: It is better to hold off disasters at home than to assume all is lost.”

50 years after moon landing
Investment of different countries (fortune.com)

The figure represents the money spent on the space race 50 years after the moon landing. Total 18 countries are in the race and they contributed around $300-400 million on this field and in different activities with the U.S. contribution is on top rather than other countries. A lot more spent by different space companies, privately engaged space sectors of different countries invested to very large extent in recent years. Old report suggest in 2019 around $5.8 billion ventured by spaceX and raised upto $1.9 billion in the previous year.

The companies are working on the field of space tourism and enhancement of advance technologies, operations to mine celestial bodies and different missions to discover various planetary objects.

Another important factor is space debris that is harmful for many systems, spacecrafts and satellite systems regarded as the major barrier in space exploration. Critics says such type of technologies raise the pollution in space create a huge cloud of fragments that persist for many years affecting outer space and systems also.

 Also Read- Space debris: cause and solution

"It's human nature to stretch to go, to see, to understand. Exploration is not a choice really; it's an imperative."- Michale Collins

Exploration of space includes the gradual increase of space tech based industries, enhancement of advance technologies and expansion of scientific knowledge regarding space. Research on this field motivates people around the world and inspires young minds to become curious for gaining knowledge, no matter what country or religion we have, study and exploration of space combines us in one platform, unites all around the globe.