Space exploration is a waste of money? (IELTS writing essay) Space exploration is said to be bound to the future of humanity, due to the depletion of mineral resources and fossil fuels in our plantet, scientific comunity, private companies and some governments see space as a profitable interesting choice. The discovery of planets and asteroids riches in sellable mineral resources could mean in our near future a worth bussines venture for new recklessness bussiness owners. Considering that, exploitation, transport and commercialisation of those resources would encourage to set up new sort of business around those areas. That would be very worth for our global economy. But as all good ideas, there are disadvantages, the main handicap with this topic is that it is knowed that by the time we will be able to create the technology to pull out resources in space, humanity is likely to be dead. Because Science are quite far away finding this technology yet. What's more, there are another cleaner alternatives for generate energy inside Earth and the technology to built them are cheaper and faster to be developed than space engineering. In fact I don't understand why Earth governments won't economically streghthen those initiatives, After all the cheaper and faster they were the better. So I think that to spent too much money in space exploration is a waste keeping in mind that it won't resolve our global economic problems in short-term. In conclusion I think that space exploration is good for science fiction novels and movies or as a way to improve our knowledge about cosmos, but in our present world there is no use in it as a economical profit. We should focus to find new urgent alternatives to face our resources shortage inside our planet besides those being respectful with environment. Earth is the best spacecraft we know after all, so we should start to look it after better.