In the last 100 years, space exploration is becoming increasingly fierce. A number of countries have reportedly sent spaceships to the moon and several space stations, built by Russia and United States, have been roaming in space. The developments of space technology never fail to fascinate common people’s attention, intriguing their curiosity to have an outer space tour as their own. Space travel, however, leads to fierce debate on whether it is impractical or worthwhile.
It’s commonly believed that space journey, as is reported, is a luxurious trip provided for billionaires only, because the cost of the tour reaches $20,000,000. Many people blame this kind of behavior for it’s a great waste of money and resources. Throughout the world, millions and millions of people are homeless, still suffering starvation and disease due to the shortage of funds supported by others. It’s more practical and efficient to donate the $20,000,000 to those people who need help urgently.
Many people are deeply impressed by the fatal accident of Columbia Spacecraft which happened several years ago. Space technology, as it showed in the case, is still developing and leaves much to be desired. Outer space travel is undertaking high risk, especially when something unexpected happen, the loss will not only be the money, but also the shock of confidence to common people and breaking of families as well.
To some degree, attraction from space trip reflects human natures— a strong conquering desire and curiosity for challenging new things. We set sail on this new area because there is new experience to be tasted, new rights to be won and new technology to be gained, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space travel, it is not the proper time to be conducted. Instead of doing this, we should be focusing on how to fix the one we live on.
From the demonstration above, while space travel is fascinating, I don’t think it is the right time to do so.
