Research proposal and plan along with research paper english

Devarani Arumugam

ENGL-1302-51008

24 September 2018

Topic Proposal – The need for space exploration

I have always been fascinated with the many wonders of space. The vast majority of it is unknown and is just waiting for man to discover its next wonder. Since I was younger I wanted to be one of the few pioneers that explore the final frontier known as space, but later on as I discovered more my interest to a pioneer declined. However, my interest in space itself never did. With everything that goes on today in politics it seems like space exploration isn’t anyone’s interest at this time, but it should be. Overpopulation, global warming, the every going lack of unrenewable resources, these problems will impact the Earth heavily in the 20-30 years. It’s even estimated that the human race would go extinct by the year 2100 by the late Stephen Hawkings if we don’t make space exploration a top priority. In my paper I plan on talking about the growing need for space exploration by addressing these issues and solving them with the limitless expectations of space travel.

I will begin by briefly addressing the history of space exploration. The earliest example of this would an event during the Cold War, the Space Race. This relatively short event is what kick started a lot of technological advancement for western society. It was also the peak of Americans’ interest in space exploration. Although space exploration is fairly new, it should still be one of America’s top priority because it could solve a lot of the nation’s problems when it comes to resources and could be the next million-dollar idea. A lot of business type millionaires actually invest in private companies to fund programs like asteroid mining. Asteroid mining could supply the world with billion dollars’ worth of resources that could supply us for centuries.

After talking about a brief history and some of the benefits of space exploration I would go in-depth into issues like overpopulation and how it treats humanity’s existence. Then after addressing each issue I will then explain how space exploration can solve it. In many case of overpopulation, in the next 20 years the earth’s population should grow near 10 billion. This means third world problems like hungry, dehydration/water shortages, and wide spread diseases could become a big issue in first world countries despite how develop most are. With space exploration we have a few options. Either colonize place like the Moon and Mars which are quite simple. Each colony could hold up to millions of people. Or the more extreme possibility would be terraforming planets which would deserve its own few paragraphs because terraforming is very useful.

Lastly, I could possibility talk about space exploration but more in-depth. I could talk about it in a certain aspect. For example, space travel. Space travel because a very intense problem once you talk beyond our solar system. It’s still a huge problem within our solar system but it is very manageable.