Do you believe in manned or unmanned space exploration?
87341
Short answer:\n\nUnmanned space exploration is more cost effective, efficient, and lower risk. We can always build new robots, and we can send them over longer distances than people (at least initially).\n\nManned space exploration would have a better chance to capture public support. A human mind in control of a space mission might see or intuit things a computer guided sensor might not, and it might react creatively in an emergency. Ultimately, we'll place more value on manned spaceflight. We've already put robots on Mars, but the first human on Mars will be a much bigger deal. Sending humans through space safely seems to be one of the goals of space exploration.
267002
Yes, I believe in intelligence outside of our own shallow planet. As for UFOs I can say they are real..I have seen many objects both day and night, for all my life. I believe.
541174
Space is vast, and we would be very arrogant to think that we are the only humanoid race in it. In fact space is so vast that we may never meet another either. Yet even with no proof, it would be very closed minded to beleave there isn't.
399485
I think they are both great!  They both strive for a larger understanding of life.  ESA does it with less money and politics and NASA keeps going even when they have set backs.
300783
When you sit back and look at the big picture, space exploration is a worthy investment.  Indeed, a number of the items we have today were spin offs of the research that went into space related industries.  The Plastics industry alone makes more money in one year than has ever been spent on the space budget.  \n\nAnyways, while we should always tend to our basic needs, we will eventually run low of resources and space on this planet.  Assuming that we don't have a great die-off of our population due to the scarcity of necessary items, we will need to colonize other planets to make room for everyone.  Hence, cities on the moon, mars, maybe terraforming venus may become options in the not so distant future.
99358
I think it is incredibly wise to spend money on space exploration for several reasons. The first reason is jobs. Thousands are employeed by NASA. These include scientists and engineers who design and conceptualize new means of travel, down to the workers who manufacture these new ships. Then the space program encourages those who study science and engineering. One element to judge a great society it the emphisis it places on technology. The Roman Empire was noted on its advancements in civil engineering and its growth of technology. Next examine the things we take for granted that developed from the space program. Think of the things we use everyday that were developed by Nasa engineers. Velcro and Microwaves come directly to mind and the personal computer was built on the foundations of NASA research. Then finally the most obvious reason is discovery. How do you put a pricetag on knowledge? The more we understand about the cosmos the more we understand about our own world.
304939
Going back to a capsule type system definately seems like a strange step.  \n\nBut as far as getting an effective system flying in a low budget enivronment, it is probably a good choice.\n\nI think seperating the cargo and crew flights is a good idea.\n\nI would like to see more alternative methods of getting man & material into space such as the high altitude drop then rocket burn of the Spaceship1, or the space elevator.
834798
in your home or in space?
285388
It's not a matter of belief.  No one has yet presented any hard, incontrovertible evidence that Earth has been visited by spacecraft built by entities from worlds other than Earth.
306697
I think, barring an "extinction level event" (i.e. large planet-killing meteorite, nuclear holocaust, etc.) human nature impels us to explore.  As our technology advances we will expand outwards, first to orbit and the moon and eventually out into the solar system.  Sooner or later, even the solar system will start to feel small, and people will begin to look toward nearby stars.  What obstacles we may encounter are left to the imagination, but, unless something stops us before we get established in space, it will be difficult (if not impossible) to keep us from expanding across the galaxy...there are no limits.
992501
Yes. Man landed on the moon. Man has flown in space ships and lived in habitats in space. There was also an effort to irradicate Jewish people, it was the Halocaust. This is all part of History. No pseudo-intellectuals can change that no matter how hard they try. People should put their efforts into making the present and future better instead of making up lies about the past.
1018471
Well, some would say we're already there.  Any military spacecraft will be around for awhile  before we hear about it. The "aurora" project is said by many to be a military project to develope a hypersonic air/space craft.  Some evidence exists to support the theory. \n  In areas around the groom lake test facility. (area 51) and edwards air force base there've been photos crop up of telltale Contrail, or exhaust patterns. These support the existance of a "pulse" pattern propulsion craft.  There've been reports from seismologist about unexplained readings of a mobile phenomenon identical to those recieved from a space shuttle re-entry. The shuttle. gives off a distinct mobile vibration, detectable by geological instruments.  There've been reports that  coincide with these conrails of seismic anomolies identical to that of a shuttle.  \n\n  Makes you wonder.....;.
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No, it's the stuff of the lunatic (no pun intended) fringe.\n\nHowever, if you want to see some evidence, go to www.badastronomy.com\n\nAll the supposed "evidence" is flawed.\n\nI think subsequent, unmanned trips have inadvertently photographed the space junk left behind on the lunar surface.  It couldn't be there if we hadn't left it.\n\nThe only piece of proof you'd need is for an unmanned probe to photograph the flag we left.
797425
Space exploration is the physical exploration of outer space by both manned and unmanned spacecraft. The development of large liquid-fueled rocket engines during the early 20th century allowed space exploration to become a practical possibility; it is distinct from the earth-based observation of outer space, known as astronomy, which has occurred for millennia.\n\nSpace exploration is more of an investment into the future as it provides the foundation of our knowledge, technology, resources, and inspiration. It seeks answers to the fundamental questions about our experience, responds to recent discoveries and puts in place revolutionary technologies and capabilities to inspire the world and the next generation. For example everyday things such as aluminum foil, saran wrap, LED, soles of your running shoes, your quartz watch, glasses with scratch resistant lenses and doppler radar - many common things you use today come from the space program or related to it. Weather patterns, genetics, food production, power recycling, habitat efficiency - it's all applicable to making life on Earth better and more sustainable. From orbit, with new sensors and other devices, we have learned more about our planet than people did in the previous century. El-Nino crap, fish migrations, plankton blooms, oil spills can be tracked, tropical storms and hurricanes, tracking tsunamis, etc, etc, etc. \n\nWithout human participation where is the adventure, the history, the determination as a species. How many early sailors died on this planet’s oceans for thousands of years and even today. It is the price we pay when we venture into the elements be they earth borne or space, albeit all the lives that are loss have a special place in our hearts. Without the exploration of space we cannot evolve as a whole on the rate we are now.\n\nOf course, once you throw politics into the mix as given in today's space exploration environment, the spectacular and publicly quantifiable begin to matter more than the mundane but scientifically useful. As far as going back to the moon and Mars, I'm pro-exploration, but for its own sake rather than for political gain.\n\nWhile the money spent on space exploration results in new innovations that go on to make more money, I do believe that a portion of that money should be utilized towards solving issues at home first (poverty, famine, pestilence, war - The Four Horsemen of Life!). We need to solve our problems at home before we take them somewhere else. There's no need for people to starve; there's no need for war... Yet we still do. Why not spend a few millions into researching our selfish nature? Find out why we are so self-centered, and then use the massive propaganda machine that we have constructed to do battle with it.\n\nThe two aspects (space exploration and solving issues at home) are not mutually exclusive. But we must remember that our perspectives will always outreach our means. This is the sad truth.\n\nPls. also have a look at the following Yahoo answers link for other views on this subject:
77757
This may sound sick, but maybe a gladiator exhibition at the Coliseum in Rome. Have you seen the movie Gladiator? I also would have loved to be on the first trip to the moon or on Christopher Columbus's first trip to the Americas. It's kind of sad that at this stage in history we think we know everything. I guess there are always other planets and biological discoveries, but somehow those don't equate to discovering the old "new frontier."
941580
If you have ever taken a trip to a new place you would understand.  If your passion is Geology and you enjoy going in the field to see and touch the different formations, or if you enjoy Biology and you enjoy collecting new samples to perhaps see an animal that no person has ever seen, or if you are an adventurer who climbs a mountain just because it is there, then you can imagine the lure of space and interplanetary exploration.  This is the passion that drives NASA and our Astronaut corps.  Live to pursue the goals of your dreams, let them drive YOU!\nI would go to where other sentient being are.  I would want to learn about how they see their own social issues and share how we approach ours.  I do believe that one day Humankind will live just like Gene Roddenberry foresaw and portrayed in Star Trek.
119041
Yes - we learnt that there was no cheese in the moon or that there were no green men in mars.\n\nJokes apart - improvements in space travel - hs helped in improving sea going vehicles (submarines etc) also treatment of paraliysed people, also treatment of muscle atrophied etc...\n\nalso the satelite age heraled the ability for us all to better predict weather changes and also determine where the next oil deposit could well be...etc\n\nso you need to look at it all in the context of the benefits of space travel...so yes its important...\n\nand the money spent is well spent