Space is called the final frontier. The ability to explore space has not existed for a long time. Since the 1960s, humans have slowly increased their presence in space. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, space exploration is at a standstill, with government agencies lacking funding and private companies only recently getting started. In the coming years, modern space programs will be poised to push humanity further; this is something that cannot be done by a government agency or private group. Only by working together can space exploration reach its full potential. Governments no longer invest in space exploration as much as they used to. Currently the budget for NASA is about a fourteenth of GDP compared to this. This also slows down their process because once they are out of money; I'm out. NASA does not have the amount of money needed to complete the steps needed to carry out its missions. The solution to this lack of money can be solved in two steps. First of all, it is necessary to change the current way of estimating costs. Current models are too dependent on tools not failing and missions going well. There are few reasons to explain the failure and Wundschock 2 is more a reflection on the mentality of this generation than on cost models. There is a disconnect between what is expected and reality. In reality there are things that fail, that's how ideas get better. If teams are expected to have complete projects on the first try, there is no room for improvement, innovation, or refinement. The second way to solve this problem is to have private companies come in and partner with the government. This can be very useful because it would allow NASA to focus its efforts on a specific part of its mission. For example, NASA might focus on building propulsion systems while a private company might focus on construction. Space is a brutal place, getting to space can be even worse due to the unreliability of current rockets. In 2014 a rocket bravely exploded due to a fuel change, this sparked concern that civil space travel is not ready and that there should be close monitoring of these private companies (Chang). The idea of private corporations also brings up the concept of military privatization and space ownership. Space has many tactical advantages, allowing a private group worried about money to be able to access space is complicated because in theory that company can be bought to host weapons of mass destruction or even use these Wundschock 3 weapons. Regulations are lacking both at national and international levels to properly manage a private space company and by placing them under the wing of government agencies, how to regulate the companies can be done easily. The final point in favor of cooperation between government and private industry is that there is a lack of public interest in space exploration. This can be seen from the polls in the Opinion Pulse article. Polls have shown strong ignorance towards
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