What does that term mean to you? What images does it bring to mind? Do you think about aliens and UFOs? Huge earth shattering asteroids? How about Neil Armstrong planting a flag on the moon? For many, it brings all those images to mind, yet amidst all the good there is some bad. The space shuttle challenger disaster, asteroids falling to earth in Russia damaging buildings, harming people. What about Area 51 and all the hype about keeping aliens there. As humans, we are inclined to be explorers. William and Lewis explored the Louisiana Purchase for us opening up a great expanse of territory in the West. Apply that concept to today 's astronauts and you can see why space exploration is vital. Scientists have discovered things well beyond what we originally thought about space, and who wouldn 't want to be able to see those things. Other galaxies and universes are out there besides ours, just waiting for us to explore them and see what they are. Who knows, one of them may be just like ours. The thought of leaving a stone left unturned if you could explore it, be the first to see it is mind boggling to me, which makes this my number one reason to
What does that term mean to you? What images does it bring to mind? Do you think about aliens and UFOs? Huge earth shattering asteroids? How about Neil Armstrong planting a flag on the moon? For many, it brings all those images to mind, yet amidst all the good there is some bad. The space shuttle challenger disaster, asteroids falling to earth in Russia damaging buildings, harming people. What about Area 51 and all the hype about keeping aliens there. As humans, we are inclined to be explorers. William and Lewis explored the Louisiana Purchase for us opening up a great expanse of territory in the West. Apply that concept to today 's astronauts and you can see why space exploration is vital. Scientists have discovered things well beyond what we originally thought about space, and who wouldn 't want to be able to see those things. Other galaxies and universes are out there besides ours, just waiting for us to explore them and see what they are. Who knows, one of them may be just like ours. The thought of leaving a stone left unturned if you could explore it, be the first to see it is mind boggling to me, which makes this my number one reason to