Space_Program

Space Program On July 20, 1969, at 10:56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from earth, gave a brief statement before stepping off the Eagle landing module and onto the moon. Back on earth, close to a billion people were listening. A moment later, Armstrong put his left foot into the powdery lunar surface, took a few steps, and humanity had walked on the moon. No doubt, this was a great moment for mankind, and it gave the world a psychological lift of conquering something that before seemed so impossible. It fed the craving of man’s imagination and wonder of space and places beyond the earth. It gave a feeling of adventure and excitement of venturing into the unknown. And all of these things are great and wonderful, but this expedition had an enormous price tag. And maybe that price tag was ok and justified back in 1969, for we went and conquered and it is an exciting accomplishment in our history books, but now...in 2004 President Bush proposes not only a manned flight return trip to the moon, but a man voyage to mars, and there is a serious problem with this proposal for several reasons and am here space, back, should, moon, money, proposal, human, earth, risk, just, tag, price, better, benefit, spent, sending, robots, mars, factor, bush’s, send, national, mission, manned, man, justified, issues, good, effective, dollars, deadly, costs, actually, trillions, things