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Stephen Kayarian
C. Douglas
UWRT 1102-029
25 April, 2015
Space Exploration: For Better or Worse
Space exploration, along with the help of NASA, can help boost todays advancement of
technology to be used for our own advancement here on Earth as well as to be used for opening
the gates to space exploration. NASA is focusing on creating new advanced technologies that
could lead to entirely new approaches for the energy needs of the agencys future Earth and
space missions, said Michael Gazarik, associate administrator for space technology at NASA
headquarters in Washington. His intentions are about new technologies that are being developed
by NASA to be used for space exploration. This article is from NASAs website and was released
on their website April 9, 2014. Many people believe that the push for space exploration can be
beneficial to us. All that is required is a lot of hard work and focus the goal of space exploration.
There are multiple benefits of going into space. David Baxter states, There are definite
advantages of having astronauts in space over having unmanned machines alone in space
exploration.This article was written by J. David Baxter. With this strong bold statement, he
strongly agrees that exploring space should be manned exploration. The more and more positives
that are building up towards having space exploration it can only equal to us having a successful
future in space travel.
One reason why manned space travel is more beneficial than having a robot in space is
the ability of the astronauts to make quick judgments while in traveling. David Baxter says that
is it more effective than drones. He conveys his message about this in a formal way so that it is

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easily understood. He enhances his information because he knows that a human made quick
decision is better than a robot making one and not having the ability to change its mind. Some
weaknesses in the article are it doesnt give the cons of space traveling with astronauts; it
basically is explaining why manned travel is better and that they are better than drones or robots.
The strengths of the article are the explanations of having the benefits explained well so the
reader understands it well. There are no oppositions in this article and if there were to be some
they should include why unmanned space travel is either more beneficial or safer than having
manned space travel. With many new advancements in technology deep space travel is becoming
a reality.
NASA released an article about new technology that they are developing to help make
deep space travel possible in the near future. All the information is from a press release and is
informing people that NASA is developing these new technologies to make space travel more
environmentally safe or more energy efficient and that we have a better of making deep space
travel possible. Michael Gazarik states, NASAs Space Technology Directorate will make
significant new investments that address several high priority challenges for achieving safe and
affordable deep-space travel.The major weakness about this situation is the fact that we will
never actually know how long we have until we can space travel. A good thing that we can look
forward to if this encouraging move that NASA is actually considering space travel in the future,
it just a matter of when and not how. Opposition is not really stated in the article but the only bad
thing about it that the money needed to keep the funding going for space travel is a little pricy.
Space travel is a path we need to go down all we have to do is follow it.
With the huge surge of going back into space there are some drawbacks that can happens.
One major one is that the time for the space program to start up again, there is no set time for the

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renewal of a space shuttle program. The cost is another problem that could happen. If the funding
is not supporting enough this could also cause for more time to go by before we actually get up
into space. If there is a breakthrough and we can get into space the benefits are going to
astronomical. There will be innovation worldwide, more technological advancement, and also a
new era of space exploration starting.
The NASA article is more credible than the one about having manned space exploration
because the credibility that NASA has cannot be match by any other resource just from their
previous successes of landing on the moon. Although on the article about benefits of manned
space travel it relates on a more personal level with the reader and gives an emotional
relationship from the astronaut to the people. It is just more understandable to hear from a real
astronaut that has been to space than to here from a robot. Space exploration is a topic we will be
seeing more of in the future and having a higher chance of deep space travel becomes a reality.

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Works Cited
Baxter, David. "Benefits: Advantages of Having Man in Space." Benefits: Advantages of Having
Man in Space. Space Exploration Day,Web. 8 Feb. 2015.
"NASA Looks to Go Beyond Batteries for Space Exploration." NASA. NASA, 9 Apr. 2014. Web.
2 Feb. 2015.

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