Writing Your Response: Students need to use proper grammar and writing technique
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Writing Your Response:
Students need to use proper grammar and writing techniques. Responses should be complete, well thought out, and presented in a logical manner.
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Topic of Conversation:
During June of 1997: Steve Wall, the Advanced Projects Design Team Leader at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, estimated that a human mission to Mars could be done for half price when compared to the expenses related to getting to a manned on the moon and back to Earth. A half price sale seems like a bargain! But, is the anticipated 30-40 billion dollars to get a human to Mars and back worth it?
Considering that the costs associated with getting humans to the moon in the 60’s and 70’s was about 70 billion dollars (according to S.Wall) when adjustments for inflation are made. This puts our modern space exploration missions (the ISS and Mars) at rock bottom prices…..right?
Not all missions are so affordably priced: According to a Washing Post article in 2014 , the International Space Station has cost about 160 billion and requires 3 billion annually. NASA would like to keep the ISS operational until 2024.
Explanation / Answer
No, it is not worth it spend such huge amount on a hurried man-mission to Mars. The major advantage of manned missions of collecting samples and studying the atmosphere has been done very effectively by the advanced probes we have landed on Mars. The cost of unmanned missions has been far less than the estimated cost of a man-mission. Further, as we have witnessed in the case of International Space Station, the estimated costs will only increase when it comes to execution and the final cost of executing such mission would be mammoth. Added to the cost, there is significant risk involved about the safety of the astronauts involved and increased safety concerns would increase the cost too. With such huge budgets, it would be wise to invest in increasing the efficiency of the probes and capacity of the scientific community to advance science rather than rushing on to a mission to land man on Mars. In future, with significant progress in the safety and cost-effectiveness, manned -missions can be planned with far less budget allocation and far more confidence.
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