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-====Space leadership high now but sustained exploration key ==== |
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-Empsak 3/16 (Jesse Empsak , a freelance science writer based in New York City. His work has appeared in Scientific American, The Economist, New Scientist, "Space Race Losers? US Leadership in Danger, Report Warns", http://www.space.com/32185-united-states-space-exploration-leadership.html_ , March 8th, 2016 ) AP |
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-The United States could lose its long-held leadership position in space science, |
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-should be one sentence: 'Space is good — keep investing.'" |
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-====RPS key to maintain future space exploration ==== |
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-Nasa 14 (This is from the NASA official government website. NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA was started in 1958 as a part of the United States government. NASA is in charge of U.S. science and technology that has to do with airplanes or space. "Radioisoptope power systems". https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/rps/overview.cfm. August 19th, 2014)AP |
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-In 2011 the National Academy of Sciences completed a major study of the priorities for |
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-would maintain NASA's current space science capabilities and enable future space exploration missions. |
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-====RPS is the only possible long term fuel system for space exploration ==== |
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-Nasa 14 (This is from the NASA official government website. NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA was started in 1958 as a part of the United States government. NASA is in charge of U.S. science and technology that has to do with airplanes or space. "Radioisoptope power systems". https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/rps/overview.cfm. August 19th, 2014)AP |
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-Power is the one thing a spacecraft cannot do without. Without the technology to |
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-That heat is produced by the natural radioactive decay of plutonium-238. |
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-====Deep Space exploration key to reestablishing faltering STEM leadership ==== |
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-Tina beller sharing a report by Col. Robert S. Kimbrough 13(Col. Robert S. Kimbrough, Chief of Robotics at the NASA Astronaut Office, who is a former alumnus and assistant professor of mathematics at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. "Army Astronaut promotes STEM, inspires space exploration "https://www.army.mil/article/102748. May 7th, 2013) AP |
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-Becoming an astronaut takes more than just high physical fitness scores, mental abilities and |
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-can thrust forward and reestablish our country's position as the superpower of STEM." |
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-====Failure of American space leadership allows China to overtake the US, causing conflict by miscalculation.==== |
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-Dowd, 2K9 |
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-(Alan, Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute, Surrendering Outer Space, http://www.fraseramerica.org/commerce.web/article_details.aspx?pubID=6853 ~~accessed 6/19/11~~) |
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-"I am concerned that America's real and perceived leadership in the standing of the |
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-"This situation will naturally and understandably lead to hedging against the unknown." |
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-====War with China causes extinction==== |
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-Straits Times 6-25-2000 |
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-THE high-intensity scenario postulates a cross-strait war escalating into a full |
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-should that come to pass, we would see the destruction of civilisation. |