Space Exploration Benefits

Do the benefits outweigh the cost for funding exploration and expansion into space? From the perspective of a sociologist, whose job it is include the origins, development, organization, networks, and institutions to study social behavior or society, funding NASA would be a wise choice because we could have space colonies creating many benefits for society and people. The article “Food, Leisure, And Social Life In Space Colonies” by Tom Marotta, a diplomat and city planner, made this position clear by presenting the significance of space exploration in today’s world to the future of our world. First, people want to know how to survive on the space colony. Space colonies are settlements in space that can vary in size and contain normal environments such as forests, farms, lakes, and rivers. They are just like a normal community but just in space. There are houses, jobs, and places where people can work on the colonies.
Overall, space life will mostly be the same but it will be in space. A necessary need to survive is food. On the space colonies, people do not eat space food. They have farms on the space colonies which produce a variety of foods brought up by rockets every so often. There will be no problem of not having enough light from the sun, and no pests will be able to mess with the food allowing there to be an extremely productive agriculture system. In conclusion, food is easier to grow in space depending on how big the colony is and the amount of people on it, allowing people to enjoy what they normally eat. Lastly, people want to know how to