Is Space Exploration Worthwhile

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Is space exploration worthwhile? | | | | |The explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger on January 26, 1986 and the subsequent disasters spread gloom across the world. | |There was the need to look into the future and consider if astronauts be sent up in future and what should be the goals. Is | |space exploration worthwhile? There are compelling reasons why we should continue to go into space and explore it. The possible | |spin-off is real. | |Temporary setbacks should not deter the space program. There cannot be unimpeded advance in any field of human endeavour. The | |fact that man has achieved outstanding success in space exploration is sufficient reason why the program should be continued, | |and the nature of the success achieved so far justifies space exploration. In 1957 the Russians launched Sputnik into space, | |followed a month later by the launching of the first animal, the dog Laika, into space. In January 1959 the Russians | |successfully flew Luna I past the moon. Two months after, the American Pioneer 4 flew by the moon. Though the Ranger missions | |missed their target and the first Apollo spacecraft, sitting on the ground, caught fire, the space program had taken off. On | |July 20, 1969 Americans, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon while Michael Collins orbited around it. The space | |program achieved spectacular success in July 1975 when the Apollo astronauts linked up in orbit with two Russian cosmonauts. | |Explorations by nature are hazardous; people have always died. Setbacks are the price we pay for advances. | |One of the

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