Nasa budged slashes Mars funding

            Our national debt is around 15 trillion dollars, which is ridiculous! There has to be a way to cut spending right? Well the government has decided that Nasa is one place where cuts can be made, Nasa will cut spending from the Mars exploration missions and put it to human exploration of space, and space technology. Nasa already has built rovers and a shuttle designed for Mars. I personally think Mars needs to be explored! By studying other planets we will better understand the workings of space and how we can use other planets for our benefit. We are a selfish greedy people who want to consume more and more recourses, the only way to continue is to go to other planets in search of recourses. So I say that the Mars exploration funds should NOT be cut and that we should continue to fund Nasa, seeing as it already gets less than 20 billion in the next few years. That’s nothing! Nasa is predicting that public transportation to low Earth orbit will be available to the super duper wealthy in 2017, and outer space travels by super duper wealthy civilians by 2021.

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