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Hello, Good Afternoon. My name is Erik Anderson and I am representing the affirmative side for our topic of space exploration. Our topic is: Investment in space exploration helped America become a more powerful nation during the 1970's,80's and 90's. We chose to define power as being superior to other nations technologically, medically, and skillfully. Space exploration gave the United States the ability to enhance these fields in American life. Our first assertion is by investing in space exploration, America was able to make new medical advancements. Our evidence to support this was how NASA had computer scientists develop miniature heart assist pumps which were tested on people currently waiting for heart transplants, and also CATScans to search for tumors in the human body. Our source for this was NASA, the United States federal space agency which has completed over 100 successful space missions/programs since 1958. . This made the Unites States more powerful because it opened doors for more lives to be saved, plus it put the United States ahead of other countries in the medical field. Our second assertion is how the U.S. became more powerful militarily through technologies made possible by space exploration. Our evidence proving this assertion would be how investments in space exploration created satellites which allowed the U.S. government to gather intelligence about the enemy's tactics and whereabouts. This information was provided by the Aerospace Corporation, an agency that provided independent, technical, and scientific research, development, and advisory services to national security space programs since 1960. This made the United States more powerful because these satellites allowed the U.S. to **track the enemy** and know if an axis country would be planning an attack. Without satellites, **we would not** have many of the important technologies that we would have today, like the tracking of fires. Our third assertion would be how NASA helped create weather satellites which help better the safety of the people. For example, satellites help to warn people about **serious weather that could possibly endanger their lives**. Our evidence comes from Chris Landsea, chief operations officer at NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). He says " We could not provide skillful hurricane forecasts without the crucial imagery and data from...satellites. Before satellites, tropical storms were often missed." This made the United States more powerful in comparison to other countries because it allowed America to better the safety of its people by warning them if their lives were endangered by a storm. Without NASA, people would lose their lives due to lack of preparedness every time we had a major storm. Space experts like NASA had the **skill to create these life-saving technologies which indeed made us powerful.** Space exploration lead to an increase in power to the United States because of all these things made possible from space exploration. My name is Erik Anderson and I would like to thank you for listening.