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What are some of the social and economical impacts of exploring Pluto?

It’s for a science fair thing. Pls help! What are some of the social and economical impacts of exploring Pluto? PLS HELP!!!!

With any exploration, the social impacts are unknown
This is a letter written by Ernst Stuhlinger, it is about space exploration, and why we should spend money on it, when there are problems right here on Earth that need to be addressed, it’s about 40 years old, so some details have evolved, but the spirit of the message is entirely unchanged. READ —–> http://www.meaus.com/whyExplore.html

The economical impacts, for starters, would be private companies that are given contracts to build the technology to do whatever the mission is designed to do. A company gets the contract, hires more engineers, more laborers, pay some shipping costs… it created jobs in the private sector, even though NASA is a publicly funded enterprise. Dollar for dollar, it is as good of an economical investment as the Department of Defense, which nobody doubts helped bring us out of the Great Depression.

Secondary economical impacts would be the spin-off technologies. For this particular mission, not a lot of new technology is necessary. We’ve had the means to get that far for decades, Voyager 1 was launched in September of 1977, and is well beyond the distance of Pluto. But some technology specifically designed for exploring Pluto might come in handy to an Earthly application. When NASA designed teflon, I doubt they anticipated its multiple uses for the everyday chef.

Every dollar spent on space is spent on Earth. The money goes into the pockets of the people who design, build, and transport the spacecraft. If you subscribe to Reaganomics, this means the trickle down affect will provide more jobs and cash for everyone. It’s not like the money spent on the spacecraft is strapped to it, and shipped off to Pluto, so nobody can ever spend it again.

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