Many governments invest a great deal of money in space research. What are the advantages and disadvantages of spending money on space exploration?

To explore

space

and planets, many countries establish a large amount organizations and departments, while investing much

money

in scientific research and the design of novel facilities.

Although

some

people

hold the idea that spending huge

money

on

space

exploration

has some drawbacks, I consider that more advantages would be achieved from a long-time perspective.

First

of all, there are some reasons which drive

people

to believe that

space

exploration

has several disadvantages. The primary reason is that fewer rewards would be attained in a short time even though huge budgets have been allocated to research. As well-known,

space

is mysterious and has never been well understood by scientists. When

people

aim to figure out it, advanced knowledge and high-quality facilities are required. For

this

, large budgets need to be invested in relevant fields

such

as math, material, physics and so on.

However

, achieving significant breaks in these fields is absolutely difficult. As a consequence,

people

and governments are hard to witness the research achievements, which encourages them to lose confidence in

space

exploration

.

However

, spending huge

money

on exploring

space

would bring a large number of advantages from both scientific and social aspects. One certain field can achieve fast development if a large scale of funds has been allocated.

Therefore

, those fields which is related to

space

exploration

would benefit from

this

funding, while accomplishing different degrees of scientific break. Meanwhile, from a social perspective,

people

can

also

benefit from these activities. As previous literature reported, some experiments were conducted on spaceships, which aimed to modify the gene of some food like tomatoes and rice in the

space

environment.

This

modified food always has the feature of high output and weather tolerance and

thus

can be planted in extreme climates. In conclusion,

although

space

exploration

needs a great deal of

money

and cannot achieve obvious effectiveness in a short term, considerable benefits from both the aspects of science and society would be attained over a long time.