Space, Privatization, Travel, Oh My! Space privatization basically just means that you are allowing companies like Microsoft or Google to have the ability to go outer space with their own space craft. I don’t agree with privatizing space craft because although the workers at certain companies may have wide variety of education, they might not have the proper background to create a space craft. Privatizing space travel is a waste of money, some people don’t have the proper education and also may not be fit to build spacecraft. “The Obama administration has consistently tried to cut NASA’s space exploration budgets in order to fund increases for earth science programs”(NASA should be about space).
There are many pros and cons that come with privatizing…show more content… Say if you worked as a mechanic for your whole life, and that’s what you aspire to be when you get older. Then one day you just weren’t feeling the whole fixing cars thing anymore. So you go apply for a teaching job, you more than likely won’t get the job because you don’t have any background with teaching or anything in that nature. What if the amount of jobs were decreased because people who don’t even have any experience with spacecraft are taking away the jobs for those who do. According to Krauthammer "Sure, decades from now there will be a robust private space-travel industry. But that is a long time. In the interim, space will be owned by Russia and then China." — re-entry burn marks and all” (Krauthammer par.…show more content… Having the proper education for a huge job like that is more than likely very important. A person’s life is probably one of the most important things today. You see fire fighters and police officers out here fighting for someone's life, you also see cancer patients fighting for their lives also. So why not help the fight for one’s life by building something that is actually fit for outer space and won’t make a person lose their life. "Spaceflight is inherently risky. As we push the frontiers of space there will be setbacks. But our commercial space ventures will ultimately be successful," (Senator Bill Nelson of Florida par.
