manned space missions
The United States Should Continue to Fund Manned Space Missions
The United States Should Continue to Fund Manned Space Missions “There is one feature which does define human nature: we are beings who construct for ourselves, each separately and singly and as well as together in our collectivities, internal models of all that happens, of all we see, find, feel, guess, and conjecture of our experience in the world” (Dick). Exploration has been portrayed in the most famous writings, such as in Homer’s Ulysses. In stories such as these, It is this urge to explore and its cost that makes manned space flight so conflicting in the first place. Although many Americans do not believe that manned space missions and their cost can benefit our society, the United States should continue to fund manned space missions because humanity, in many ways, defines itself through exploration, and space is the next logical frontier, some activities in space require dexterity of both mind and body to be successful, and manned space flight excites the imagination more than unmanned missions, allowing members of nations everywhere to see themselves as part of the same human race.
Humanity in Many Ways, Defines Itself through Exploration, and Space is the Next Logical Frontier “During the last half of the 20th century, humans pursued the vastness of outer space, the cosmos whose limitless reaches filled us with a sense of mystery and awe” (Schaeffer). Humans have always been drawn to the unknown, and what could be more unknown than that of our very own infinite universe? Naturally, humans have a need to build a forever-reinvigorated internal model of the shifting natural world. (Dick) One would assume that they would simply observe the world that they live in, and try to better it or at least better understand it. Instead, the human race has turned to destruction, rather than immerse themselves in the beauty that is our universe. (Schaeffer) “In the
The United States Should Continue to Fund Manned Space Missions “There is one feature which does define human nature: we are beings who construct for ourselves, each separately and singly and as well as together in our collectivities, internal models of all that happens, of all we see, find, feel, guess, and conjecture of our experience in the world” (Dick). Exploration has been portrayed in the most famous writings, such as in Homer’s Ulysses. In stories such as these, It is this urge to explore and its cost that makes manned space flight so conflicting in the first place. Although many Americans do not believe that manned space missions and their cost can benefit our society, the United States should continue to fund manned space missions because humanity, in many ways, defines itself through exploration, and space is the next logical frontier, some activities in space require dexterity of both mind and body to be successful, and manned space flight excites the imagination more than unmanned missions, allowing members of nations everywhere to see themselves as part of the same human race.
Humanity in Many Ways, Defines Itself through Exploration, and Space is the Next Logical Frontier “During the last half of the 20th century, humans pursued the vastness of outer space, the cosmos whose limitless reaches filled us with a sense of mystery and awe” (Schaeffer). Humans have always been drawn to the unknown, and what could be more unknown than that of our very own infinite universe? Naturally, humans have a need to build a forever-reinvigorated internal model of the shifting natural world. (Dick) One would assume that they would simply observe the world that they live in, and try to better it or at least better understand it. Instead, the human race has turned to destruction, rather than immerse themselves in the beauty that is our universe. (Schaeffer) “In the
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