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NASA’s 2004 budget was $15.3 billion and for 2005 NASA is proposing a $16.2 billion budget. Each year NASA’s costs rise so their proposed budget goes up as well. In 2004, $595 million of NASA’s budget was for exploring Mars, in 2005 that will go up to $691 million. In 2004, $1.5 billion was for Earth Sciences while in 2005 NASA budgets $1.4 billion. Aside from Earth Science and Space Exploration, NASA’s $15.3 billion covers Biological and Physical Research and Aeronautics. Is it worth the expense? Should we be redirecting that money back to our own planet and helping our own people? Or should we continue exploring space and maybe one day colonize other planets or even reach another star? This is what you will be debating. Student groups will
be assigned either a pro or con position. Their task, to research
their position and defend it to a group with the opposite position
in a debate. Debates will
proceed as follows: Here are some websites for you to research: Astronauts' families: Space exploration 'must go on' NASA's Budget compared to US Budget Will Nuclear Power Put Humans on Mars? NASA Rovers Watching Solar Eclipses By Mars Moons Factors Contributing to Bone Loss Adverse Effects of Weightlessness International Space Station Research on Bone Loss |
