Can we just take a second and talk about space? I don’t mean the type that is personal or the key on my keyboard, but I mean outer space, as in what’s up in the sky. We are located somewhere in the middle of a wonderfully vast universe that holds more secrets that a school girl with a crush, and we are just sitting here with our hands under folded neatly in our laps not doing anything about it. Every year the government organization or NASA loses more and more funding as congress imposes budget cuts on them.

For the first time in history the universe is at our fingertips and we just wave it off as if it always has been. Whatever happened to the drive to put footsteps on the moon, the excitement of putting a satellite into orbit, the wonder of looking at something new, yet familiar through a telescope in an observatory?

Space, the final frontier. It’s just begging for us to explore it, it’s just waiting for us to go out and discover all the life-changing information it has to offer. Astronomy was always one of my favorite subjects in school, but it was a subject we always spent such little time on. There is so much we have yet to learn about this universe we call home.

I think instead of limiting the information students learn about outer space in schools, we should embrace it. The kids growing up today will have more knowledge on this subject than we could ever hope to have today, they are the future explorers. If schools take a stand and begin to teach children about the universe, then more people will grow up showing interest in it, and many more of them will use their love of the subject to help change our world in the future. There is still one last great adventure waiting to be had, so what are we waiting for? Together we can make or break the space program. Together we can finally understand the strange place we find our little slice of heaven to be floating around in.