UNIVERSE
SPACE EXPLORATION
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NASA should become a private company so that it can compete on a fair basis with private companies.
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NASA should reduce spending and allow corporations to innovate and expand their operations into space.
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NASA should not share its technology with private companies so that those companies will be forced to innovate on their own.
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NASA should be making scientific breakthroughs that will lead to further developments by private companies and that will inspire the public.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Q. In “Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Future of U.S. Space Exploration After Curiosity, ‘’ what claim about how NASA should operate does Tyson argue? NASA should become a private company so that it can compete on a fair basis with private companies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Curiosity is cheap compared to sending humans out of low-Earth orbit. A different kind of understanding of the value of sending humans into space needs to be had before that happens. I don’t think Curiosity is a stepping stone to that. Are the barriers to sending humans to Mars political?
Detailed explanation-3: -Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says valuing space exploration “transforms the culture into one that values science and technology."
Detailed explanation-4: -What claim about how NASA should operate does Tyson argue? NASA should be making scientific breakthroughs that will lead to further developments by private companies and that will inspire the public.
Detailed explanation-5: -Neil Degrasse Tyson addresses the idea of curiosity in this lesson: Curiosity Is a Superpower–If You Have the Courage to Use It. How important is it to be curious? See what Bill Gates has to say about it here.
Detailed explanation-6: -Tyson served on a 2001 government commission on the future of the U.S. aerospace industry and on the 2004 Moon, Mars and Beyond commission. He was awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal in the same year. From 2006 to 2011, he hosted the television show NOVA ScienceNow on PBS.
Detailed explanation-7: -The big bang endowed the universe with hydrogen and helium and not much of anything else. That is, nine out of ten atoms are hydrogen, about one out of ten atoms is helium, and there are only trace amounts of other things. If there were no stars, that would be the beginning and end of the universe.