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What matters in the world today is Barac Obama's new budget plan for NASA. An article on Spacenew.com explains that the new budget is discontinuing manned space exploration. Instead private companies would be hired to carry out missions. This could cause many problems. NASA has the experience that other companies do not. As a result, the private companies will end up making the same mistakes that NASA has in the past, and this will cause more fatalities and accidents. Private companies will compete with prices and speed. Neither of which are good in the space program. If companies compete for price, they end up developing product as cheaply as possible. This could cause companies to skimp on safety measures and other precautions that could determine whether an astronaut makes it back to Earth. Competing for speed is also bad, because it will end up causing another space race. If space craft are built as quickly as possible, it results in things being forgotten or left out. This again, could cost life. That is why NASA should be aloud to continue the manned exploration of space.