PROS AND CONS OF

SPACE TRAVEL
4. Identify issues and opportunities arising from the application of space
technology, identify alternatives involved, and analyze implications
- identify and analyze factors that are important to decisions regarding
space exploration and development
You Need To
Know:
● Understand the ethical argument
for/against space exploration
 Brainstorm
What are some pros and cons of space travel?
 PROS AND CONS OF SPACE TRAVEL

Pros Cons
promotes new technology financially costly
discovery of new resources pollution of space
increased scientific knowledge ownership disputes
Is human exploration and colonization of space worth the
time and effort given existing problems here on Earth?
THINGS TO CONSIDER
 DANGERS OF SPACE EXPLORATION
● Space Exploration has its drawbacks. It can be dangerous,
expensive and ethically questionable
● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz1EA3W0Q8k
 DANGERS OF SPACE EXPLORATION
● In Space
○ Explosions and Death
○ Becoming Stranded
○ Physical or Mental Illness
○ Collisions (including space junk)
● On Earth
○ Meteorite-style debris (re-entry of space junk)
○ Pollution
○ Financial and Social Costs
QUESTION
 SPACE JUNK
● Another legacy of human presence
is space junk
● This refers to all the pieces of
debris that have fallen off rockets,
satellites, space shuttles and space
stations, and remain floating in
space
● They can include things as small as
flecks of paint to bolts and even as
VIDEO Demonstrating
large as dead satellites.
the progress of space
● It has the potential to stay in Earth’s
junk
orbit for thousands of years
Video about tracking
space junk
QUESTIONS
QUESTIONS
ASSIGNMENT
The Ethical Question
of Space Exploration