Essay 8. Governments around the world are spending billions in support of space programs. This money would be better spent on research into improvements in human health. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Almost each developed country spends a huge sum of money on exploring space. They build spaceships which cost billions of dollars and make a huge amount of expensive experiments in aerospace. Some people consider that there is no sense in the above mentioned expenditures.Consequently, the money which could be saved by shortening aerospace budget should be redirected to social needs. I also think so due to several reasons.

At first I think, that the huge amount of money spent on space science could save plenty of lives today, not in the distant future. For instance, it costs forty thousand dollars to make kidney transplantation, but lots of people die because they have not enough money and time to wait. It is really unbelievable, how many people's lives could be saved if even half of "space money" was redirected into improvements in human health.

One more reason for me to consider spending money on space programs as just a waste of billions dollars is the fact, that there aren't enough benefits from investing money in space programs. It does contribute to the development of science, however for an ordinary person it's almost impossible to see and feel the results. There is no difference for farmers, for example, what is going on in the space, as agriculturists would not grow their gather in airships in the closest time. We don't even know about the discoveries which had been done. Moreover some of these inventions would never be implemented.

One more cause to reduce space exploration is the opportunity to bring a mortal disease from the universe. People could die, as outside organisms could have another structure and the diseases which they cause could be fatal. On the other hand we can also bring our sicknesses to the universe.

I am persuaded that airspace exploration is caused by curious nature of humans, who always strived to discover and explore something new. But we should keep a balance between our curiosity, dangers and current needs.