What is the importance of space exploration? Why do we look to the stars for answers? Is it the desire to know where we came from or is it the uncontrollable need to relate and connect with something bigger then ourselves? The late 1950's was the age of space. There was fear of global disaster and though ideas for refuge on our home planet were exercised, space was truly the last frontier.
Space exploration and research wasn't a brand new idea however the competition sparked between America and Russia opened the eyes of the general public to explore the possibilities that lie in front of us. Now in 2010, space exploration is about to shift yet again. With the Hubble Space Telescope's life coming to an end, more powerful and amazing technology are on the verge of being launched into the still very unknown world that is the Milky Way. Will we find the answers we have been searching for? Or will our curiosities lead us down a road we shouldn't have taken?